Moneta
Registered: August 2005
Location: Arizona USA
Posts: 2,350
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PONY BILLIARD ROOM V.L. McCUTCHAN OWNER TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA; Rx: GOOD FOR 10c IN TRADE
"Pony Billiard Room" of Tombstone, Arizona. This establishment was owned by a V. L. McCutchan and operated from as early as 1923 until at least 1924.
There had been a Pony Saloon in Tombstone, operated by a J. H. Marrs, until 1914 when the Saloons were closed. V. L. McCutchan had operated a Billiard Parlor in Patagonia, Arizona (see map below) from before 1919 until around 1923, he may have moved to Tombstone, bought out the Pony Saloon and reopened it as a Pool Hall or Billiard Room.
Tombstone, the town “Too Tough To Die”, is one of the best-known towns from “The Old West”, it was here on October 26, 1881 that Wyatt Earp, Morgan Earp, Virgil Earp, and Doc Holliday fought Frank McLaury, Tom McLaury, Billy Claiborne, Ike Clanton, and Billy Clanton in the famed “Gunfight at the OK Corral”. The town's cemetery, where some of the above now reside, is actually named "Boot Hill". [a.t. coyote]
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