February 27, 1914, Menasha Record
We've been to this place before...in 2012. See this link for some photos: https://menashabook.blogspot.com/2012/08/mission-billiards.html. The building still stands today, just past One Menasha Center in the former Morton's Drugs (remember them?).
The proprietor lists his table as 5 x 10 feet. I don't know much about pool tables but by today's standards, this seems a bit large as 9 feet seems to be the limit, with 8 and 7 foot tables available also. That is, of course, unless he was measuring a different way. Nevertheless, the pool hall was smack dab in the center of downtown and one wonders how tolerated that was or did the establishment withstand periodic morals issues raised by certain aspects of the populace. But considering the area's history of tolerating so many drinking establishments for so many years, perhaps this was small potatoes.
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