Supposedly Adam Horowitz, the Beastie Boy, was in my class, but I have no idea. I was in the class of 1980, a year behind you. Very interesting about the crane & metal! I happen to have loathed my time there though so I’m not going to count them. My HS in CT had quite a lot of people that polished awards over the years. Thanks for the impressive list of actors. Did you graduate in 1979? With my terrible boyfriend? Next I will find out you were best friends. So this thread is basically a high school reunion. However, I was more pleased, when people would tell me that some famous or middling actor went to their high school, I could look them in the eye and say, “My high school generated four Nobel Laureates.” That, along with Brian Greene and Lisa Randall, both from my graduating class, as well as AG Eric Holder, usually silenced people who bragged about having Patrick Duffy go to their school…. Other actors who went there include Paul Reiser, Ron Silver, Tim Robbins, and Lucy Liu. At that time the school was more of an industrial school…it had a forge shop and a crane to bring in metal for said shop. Yes, Cagney went to SHS, and wrote in his memoirs that he learned to fight there. I think it was on the block that also held Luchows, which is now an NYU dorm, like most of Greenwich Village. I went to SHS in the late 1970s and vaguely remember this place. Or as this was in the 80s also – he was one of the “hoodlums” you saw □ The boyfriend I mentioned in my above comment went to Stuyvesant too. Ben gazzarra also went to my high school he must have hung at Julians too and James Cagney was another alumni of Stuyvesant but Julians was after his time he graduated in 1908 I went to high school at Stuyvesant on 15th street in the 80s ,we used to cut school and hang out at Julians and play pool,it was full of hoodlums, I think it was a tradition, we also went to the palladium at night. There were great windows that looked out over 14th St. The original Paladium was a great concert venue as well. It’s like Dicken’s description of the Artful Dodger in the novel. Was that a norm then? I have never seen a child in a hat like this. What’s really astonishing is the boy in the suit AND hat. ‘The 14th St pool hall’ (or room etc.).ĭid it still have the name Julian’s in the 80s? I once went out of my way to meet my boyfriend downtown & he cut our meeting short to go “play pool on 14th St.” blocks away … the only thing I ever heard this place called. □This is the first post you’ve written that has made me angry! Lol. Oh I remember this place, dark, seedy and you kept a low profile if you knew what was good for you. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.Ĥ0 Responses to “The glory days of Julian’s 14th Street pool hall” You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. This entry was posted on at 4:40 am and is filed under East Village, Music, art, theater, Sports, Union Square. Tags: Billiards Rooms New York City, Julian Billiards Academy, Julian Pool Hall 14th Street, Julian's Billiards 14th Street, Reginald Marsh 14th Street, Union Square 1930s these photos are an invitation to 1930s New York City. He’s better known as an artist of the 1920s to 1940s who was drawn to the city’s seedy underbelly along the Bowery, at Times Square, and on Coney Island.īut he took a series of photos in the 1930s along 14th Street as well, capturing Depression-era New York’s grit, glamour, and many forgotten men.Ī long shadowy staircase leading to the second floor entrance, the electric sign with “ladies invited” underneath, the ad for table tennis, the barber pole advertising a cut and shave to the left. But these noir-ish 1938 photos of Julian’s are another reason to bring it back again. It ended its run on the second floor of the old Palladium building in 1991.Įphemeral New York has celebrated Julian’s before, where (mostly) men and teenage boys shot pool and played hooky from work and life. If you spent any time east of Union Square from the 1930s to the early 1990s, you might remember Julian’s, one of the last of New York’s dark and smoky billiards halls.
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