MN Pool Rooms

List of Current and Closed Pool Rooms in Minnesota

I’d like your help constructing a historical list of pool rooms in Minnesota.

I’ve set up a photo gallery and will add photos of these rooms. Please let me know if you’ve got old or current photos of these pool rooms. I’m hoping to get at least one exterior shot and one interior image of each place.

Sample the gallery here.

If you’ve thought of a pool room I’ve forgotten or have corrections or extra information on dates please email me or add a comment to this page.

Current Pool Rooms in Minnesota

(listed by age)

  • Corner Pocket (Formerly Doc’s), Spring Lake Park.  1978 ? - Current
  • Al’s Billiards, St. Paul
  • Shooters, Burnsville 1986? - Current
  • CR Billiards, Coon Rapids
  • Billiard Street Cafe’ (Formerly University Billiards, now Two Stooges) Fridley. 1989- Current
  • Biff’s, Spring Lake Park   1991? - Current
  • Fat Boy’s, Minneapolis
  • Jimmy’s Pro Billiards, Minneapolis
  • Farmington Billiards, Farmington (extreme south suburb of the Twin Cities)
  • Water Tower Brewing (& Billiards?), Eden Prairie — Still open?

Pool Rooms from the past in Minnesota

  • JB’s Side Pocket, Bloomington and Lake Streets, Minneapolis (84-94?)
  • Galtier Plaza Billiards, Downtown St. Paul
  • Pockets, Eagan (early 90’s?)
  • City Billiards (New City near the end), Downtown Minneapolis
  • Q-Sharks, Burnsville
  • Eddie’s Billiards, Maple Grove
  • Players Billiards, South St. Paul
  • Louie’s Billiards (two locations)
  • Classic Billiards, Woodbury
  • Break Room Billiards (15 tables inside bowling alley), St. Paul
  • Ballbusters, Shakopee
  • Rack ‘N Roll, Shakopee
  • Coliseum Billiards, Little Canada
  • Elvira’s (aka ?), Richfield
  • The Club (in Coon Rapids)
  • Brianne’s Billiards, Maple Grove (91-93?)
  • TC Billiards, Maplewood
  • Olympic Billiards, Hopkins
  • Rack’em Up, Oakdale
  • The joint in Coon Rapids…Name anyone?  Cueball Connection?
  • Bankshot Billiards
  • Moby Dicks
  • Crown Billiards
  • Gentleman Jim’s
  • Main Street Billiards, Anoka- Can someone confirm this?
  • St. Paul Recreation
  • Harkin’s (another name for above?)
  • Minnesota Billiards
  • Sharpshooters, Lino Lakes (late 90’s?)
  • Cue Stix,  Lake Street in Minneapolis (1960’s)
  • The Blue Cue,  Richfield (1960’s)
  • Lincoln Billiards, Minneapolis (1960’s)

3 Responses to “MN Pool Rooms”

  1. Dennis Green on July 23rd, 2008 2:10 pm

    Current poolrooms: please add Farmington Billiards

    Poolrooms of the past (and I may well be dating myself here. I played at all of these in the late 1960’s):

    Cue Stix on Lake Street
    The Blue Cue in Richfield
    Lincoln Billiards in Minneapolis

  2. Fieldhammer on July 23rd, 2008 2:40 pm

    Dennis,

    Thanks very much for the comment and help with 4 pool rooms I missed.

  3. Ryan on November 7th, 2008 10:12 pm

    current: SS Billiards , Hopkins
    Duck’s , St Cloud
    Woody’s on main, Rockford

    past: B&B Billiards , Elk River

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