Orange County Memories: Linbrook Family Billiards

Linbrook Family Billiards

by Steve
Thursday, November 10, 2005

Back in the mid-1980s, during my college days, my best friend Greg and I would ride our motorcycles to Linbrook Family Billiards.

It was located in Anaheim, just off the corner of Brookhurst and Lincoln (I think, or maybe Ball). Anyways, it was billed as "family billiards" but it was no place where you'd want to take a family to.

We'd go there on weekend nights and shoot pool. You used to be able to get a table for $3.00 an hour. There'd be groups of folks from all walks of life. Punk rockers, vietnamese, bikers, folks wearing suits, everyone. You'd even see a prostitute hanging around. The patronage was diverse enough that anyone could go there and not feel out of place. I think that's why we went there.

We never saw any rough stuff there, however. For the most part everyone was cordial, and often times other folks would challenge us to a few games. Greg and I were both slightly-above-average pool players, and we'd win half the games when we played others. It was never for money though.

I don't know if Linbrook Family Billiards is still there.

These days I either play on the pool table I have at home, or some friends and I will go down to the High Society Billiards in Temecula. Still, I'll never forget playing at Linbrook.

Labels: Anaheim, Linbrook-Family-Billiards

6 Comments:

Linbrook is still there; its a bowling alley! Here's their website...

http://www.linbrookbowl.com/

By Alex "Toon" Deligiannis, at November 16, 2005 5:17 PM
Alex, the bowling alley is a separate entity. It's on Brookhurst. The billiard hall is/was on Lincoln, around the corner, on the south side of the street, east of Brookhurst. I don't remember if it's still there. I haven't been that way for years.
I used to go there in the late 60s, and you really could call it a family place then. Oh well. Everything changes.

By Tom Clift, at November 16, 2005 6:24 PM
I believe it's still there, just on the other side of the bowling alley. I played there a few times two or three years ago. It's pretty much the same as described in the original post. It's called Linbrook after the cross streets, Lincoln and Brookhurst.

By Angela, at December 07, 2005 9:07 AM
Linbrook bowling ally and Linbrook Billiards were two different places. They were on different sides of the same corner.. LINcoln and BROOKhurst.
Get it lin-brook? There was also a Linbrook hardware store. It closed decades ago. Remember Gemco, Zody's and E tickets?

By Anonymous, at January 13, 2006 10:02 AM
I SOOOO Remember my grandpa taking me to Linbrook hardware when i was tiny! I lived two blocks from there. Now it's the autoparts store..all good things must come to an end. Linbrook Billiards is still there. I drive by it when i go see my family.

By Anonymous, at June 23, 2006 10:08 PM
Both the bowling alley and pool hall are still there. The pool hall is now a great place to practice Spanish. High school kids during the day... with Savanna down the street.

By Anonymous, at June 20, 2007 10:59 PM

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