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Santa Barbara Log Pool Table

0 Posted by Pool Table King on September 30, 2010

We had a post from about four months ago that showed this log pool table being disassembled at our client’s home in San Juan Capistrano, CA. Well, our clients found their dream home, this past Monday we had the pleasure of travelling up to Santa Barbara, CA to setup this marvelous Lincoln Log style pool [...]

Tripp’s Golden West Heirloom

0 Posted by Pool Table King on September 28, 2010

Here’s a pool table that started out upstairs in Orange, CA at our client’s parent’s home. We were hired to dismantle and move the pro eight foot “Golden West” pool table to our client’s garage in Tustin, CA. For the next couple of months the lonely table sat in pieces while the future game room [...]

Fischer Pool Table Swap

65 Posted by Pool Table King on September 27, 2010

Here we are at Casa Loma Apartments in Tustin, CA to swap out an old 1960′s “bar pool table”. This 45 year old Fischer coin-operated pool table is being replaced with a brand new C.L. Bailey eight foot “Renegade” pool table. The apartment manager was tired of dealing with all the tenants’ complaints about balls [...]

9′ Victorian Facelift

0 Posted by Pool Table King on September 27, 2010

We were called out to Newport Beach, CA last week to do some work on this beautiful nine foot Golden West “Victorian”. This pool table is a replica of the original Brunswick “Monarch”. Our client has hired us to replace the cushion rubber, refelt the rails and bed with new Mali 10820f  “speed cloth”. The [...]

Help Us! We’re Flooded.

0 Posted by Pool Table King on September 26, 2010

Yesterday we were called out to Fullerton, CA for an emergency pool table move. Our client’s game room was flooded by an upstairs plumbing catastrophe a day earlier. This nine foot Brunswick Mission style pool table has been around about 45 years and has never had a bath. But yesterday that all changed, for the [...]

Patio Pool Hall

0 Posted by Pool Table King on September 26, 2010

Yesterday we were on site in Anaheim Hills, CA for the first leg of a house to house pool table move. Our client had just moved his family to Corona, CA and needed his eight foot slate pool table moved over to the new house. When we arrived in Corona, the house was still filled [...]

Good to the Last Chalk

0 Posted by Pool Table King on September 26, 2010

Here’s one cube of Master chalk that I pulled out of a coin operated pool table at O’Hara’s Pub in Orange, CA. We were at O’Hara’s the other day for a routine refelt job. Someone really got their money’s worth out of this chalk cube. Now if only the bar patrons would treat the pool [...]

Surprise, I’m A Dead Cushion

0 Posted by Pool Table King on September 22, 2010

This job started out as a new flooring move, our clients were having their hardwood floors re-finished and needed the pool table to be disassembled and moved while the work was being done. When we arrived at this home in Santa Ana, CA to start disassembling the pool table, I noticed that all the rails [...]

Before and After: Rock It ‘Til the Pockets Fall Off

0 Posted by Pool Table King on September 18, 2010

We finally received the rails from Golden West Industries and were able to go back over to Park Plaza in Orange, CA. We sent one of the old rails up to Oregon so that Don could have one of his master craftsmen stain the new rail set. When I opened up the box I was [...]

Fusion Pool Table Move

2 Posted by Pool Table King on September 17, 2010

Here is a closer look at the intricacies of safely moving an Aramith “Fusion Pool Table” We sold this dining/pool table to a great mind in Los Angeles, CA a couple of years ago. Last Saturday she hired us to move her prized Fusiontable to her new compound in Pacific Palisades, CA. The Aramith “Fusion” [...]

Pool Table Leaving Orange County

0 Posted by Pool Table King on September 16, 2010

We sold this 8′ Fischer “Sorbonne” pool table three years ago to a nice couple in Orange, CA. The couple  is now retired and has decided to move out of Orange County. They’re relocating to Oxford, MI and the Mr. really wanted to bring his pool table with him. He hired us to disassemble the [...]

Saddle Up

0 Posted by Pool Table King on September 14, 2010

Here’s a nice western themed pool table in Yorba Linda, CA. We were called out  to disassemble and move this 8′ three piece slate pool table. The homeowner was down-sizing and didn’t have room for it in her new home. So rather than just sell it for practically nothing , she rented a storage unit [...]

Classic Cadet

0 Posted by Pool Table King on September 13, 2010

Last week we went to Foothill Ranch, CA to finish up a pool table we had disassembled in July. Our customer was adding on a room above their game room and needed us to safely move the pool table out of the way so construction could begin. So we stored the disassembled pool table in [...]

Bad Dog!

0 Posted by Pool Table King on September 13, 2010

We have seen some interesting things come through our door, but this one wins the prize. A customer brought his pool table rails into the shop on Saturday, asking if we could fix them. We said sure, no problem, but how did this happen? He went on to tell us that his dog climbed up [...]

Ole’s Tavern Pool Table Refelting

0 Posted by Pool Table King on September 9, 2010

Here we are at Ole’s Tavern in beautiful, overcast, downtown San Clemente, CA. It was cool and overcast on Tuesday morning when we showed up to recover the two pool tables. The seven foot Global pool tables had been previously recovered with Championship’s “Tour Edition” euro blue cloth. The bar’s cleaning crew had made the [...]

Boston Beige Brunswick

0 Posted by Pool Table King on September 9, 2010

This nice family from Hopkinton, MA, a suburb of Boston, just permanently relocated here to Orange, CA. The family brought their 8′ Brunswick pool table all the way here. The pool table was properly disassembled and the slates were all crated up. The entire table made it here without damage. The felt was carefully removed, [...]

Electric Elayna

0 Posted by Pool Table King on September 8, 2010

We delivered this cute little 7′ C.L. Bailey cinnamon “Elayna”  to a nice family in Long Beach, CA. A great value at $1799. We have this pool table available in an 8′ size too. This family chose Electric Blue felt with a cinnamon stain. We also have Traditional Mahogany and Warm Chestnut stains.

Black & Tan Pool Table

1 Posted by Pool Table King on September 7, 2010

This poor pool table sat in this Santa Ana, CA garage for a year while it’s owner found a permanent home. Thank God for understanding parents, While their son was out looking for a house to buy this newly acquired toy sat unused for a year on the garage floor just like you see it [...]

DK goes to Angel Stadium

0 Posted by Pool Table King on September 7, 2010
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  Yesterday we went to Angel Stadium in Anaheim, CA to deliver and install the Fan Appreciation Day pool table. This pool table will be given away to one lucky fan in attendance on Sunday, September 26. We set-up the pool table right outside the Diamond Club.  

Pool Table Experts on TV

0 Posted by Pool Table King on September 2, 2010

To help Angels Baseball Celebrate Fan Appreciation Day, DK Billiard Service and Showroom is providing a pool table as a prize. That’s right a slate pool table will be given away to one lucky fan in attendance on Sunday, September 26 when the Angels host the Chicago White Sox. We’ll be delivering and setting up [...]

OC Pool Table Rollin’ To The Rockies

0 Posted by Pool Table King on September 1, 2010

Yesterday we were on a pool table job in Laguna Niguel, CA. The owners of this nine foot pool table were moving to Colorado and needed the pool table experts to help with getting this massive pool table disassembled and loaded into their rented moving truck. No problem for us, that’s what we do on [...]