Re: O'tooles, last word
Posted by:
MJ
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Date: April 01, 2010 08:22AM
Okay, so here's the latest:
I was talking to Kieth, the owner of Bungalow Billiards the other night over at Velocity 5, (across from Caraba's). He had been approached about taking O'toole's as a BB but declined.
The original owner had self-financed the purchase of his business by the Korean couple that bought it from him. The new owners walked away, handing the place back to the older folks with only 2 or 3 months left on the lease. The shopping center owners then jacked the rent so high that it wasn't practical to stay on. They only had a few days to sell what they could. And of course all of the staff had just a couple of days notice before they were out of work.
As Kieth explained, O'toole's was well past it's prime. It had become the crap palace it was with only the same hard-core clientele despite all the improvements and huge billiards hall. The rent was too expensive. The location, the parking lot and approaches weren't conducive to the volume needed to support a Bungalow Billiards.
So now the old flys and much of the staff are at Red Rocks. The new Velocity 5 over in the Trinity cluster is a real hoping place that is far more fun and interesting the either O'toole's or Red Rocks. And there are always attractive young ladies, unlike the Old Tool box.