Billiard Hall

The hall is full of people talking and laughing and drinking. The games of pool are accompanied by many drinks. The saxophone plays as background music for the groups of people meeting up for a friendly game of pool. A billard hall is a place where people get together for playing cue sports such as pool, snooker or carom billiards. Such establishments often serve alcohol and may have gaming machines, darts, foosball and other games on the side. In North America in the 1950s and 1960s especially, pool halls in particular were perceived as a social ill by many, and laws were passed in many jurisdictions to set age limits at pool halls and restrict gambling and the sale of alcohol. The song "Trouble" in the 1957 hit musical The Music Man lampooned this prejudice. Public perception had changed considerably by the 1990s.