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John Carlisle of the Detroit Free Press visits a piece of old Detroit that's hanging on for now:
Bill’s Recreation is the last pool hall left in the city of Detroit. Once there were dozens of them in the neighborhoods, back when billiards was far more popular than it is now, and pool halls were notoriously shady gathering places.
“Pool is not like it used to be,” owner Tony Bean tells Carlisle. “There used to be a pool room on every block. Even right here, this area right here down to the light a few blocks over, there used to be two or three pool rooms.”
Some think Bill's Recreation at 3525 3rd Avenue in the Cass Corridor isn't long for this world.
“It ain’t gonna be here for long,” Mel Bridges, 70, a longtime regular, tells the Freep.
