Walnut Street owned by Robert Claxton - Caron's Directory of the City of Louisville for 1913, p.

Louisville (Jefferson County) - Pool Hall at 906 W.

Jacob Avenue owned by Robert Elliott - Caron's Directory of the City of Louisville for 1913, p.

Louisville (Jefferson County) - Pool Hall at 548 E.

Louisville (Jefferson County) - Billiard Room owner Leroy Johnson - 1920 U.S.

Louisville (Jefferson County) - Billiard Room porter Thomas Montgomery - 1880 U.S.

Louisville (Jefferson County) - Billiards Room employee Henry Haglem - 1880 U.S.

Louisville (Jefferson County) - Billiards Store clerk George Warden - 1880 U.S.

Lexington (Fayette County) - Lougard Pool Hall at 238 Vertner Avenue managed by Sam Tilford - Lexington City Directory, 1923, p.

Lewis - Polk's Lexington (Kentucky) City Directory, 1931-1932, p.

Lexington (Fayette County) - Crystal Pool Room at 186 Deweese Street owned by Thomas Rutherford and Clem B.

Polk & Co.'s Lexington (Kentucky) Directory, 1925, p.

Lexington (Fayette County) - Pool Hall at 186 Deweese Street owned by Haydon Young - R.

– Caron's Hopkinsville Directory for the Years, p.

Hopkinsville (Christian County) – Pool Room at 20½ East 6 th Street owned by Peter Postell, Jr.

Babbage – Caron's Directory of the City of Hopkinsville, Ky.

Hopkinsville (Christian County) – Pool Room at 104 East 6 th Street owned by Clarence J.

Harlan (Harlan County) - Pool Room tender John Tunes - 1940 U.S.

Harlan (Harlan County) - Pool Room tender Elmes Tunes - 1940 U.S.

Castleman - Caron's Directory of the City of Frankfort, Ky for 1917-1918-1919, p.

Frankfort (Franklin County) - Pool Hall at 511 Washington Street owned by Will S.

Clinton Street owned by Grant Owens - Caron's Frankfort Directory for the Years 1914-1915-1916, p.

Frankfort (Franklin County) - Pool Hall at 412 W.

Frankfort (Franklin County) - Pool and Billiard proprietor John Shelton - 1910 U.S.Frankfort (Franklin County) - Pool and Billiard proprietor Charles Taylor - 1910 U.S.Frankfort (Franklin County) - Billiard keeper.Frankfort (Franklin County) - Billiard keeper Charles Ellis - 1870 U.S.Earlington (Hopkins County) - Pool Hall owned by Henry King - 1930 U.S.Danville (Boyle County) - Elite Pool Hall at 130 S. 2nd Street, owned by brothers Leon and Orestes Richardson - Polk's Danville (Boyle County, KY.) City Directory 1958, p.Cynthiana (Harrison County) - Harrison Billiard Parlor employee Isham Miller Allen - 1940 WWII Draft card.Main Street owned by Thomas Harris - Bowling Green, Kentucky City Directory, 1922, p. Bowling Green (Warren County) - Pool Hall at 129 E.Ashland (Boyd County) – Pool Parlor at 113 Broadway owned by Edward Franklin – The Marion Directory Company's Directory of Ashland and Boyd County Gazetteer for the Year 1908-1909, p.Also included are the names of African Americans in and from Kentucky who earned their livelihoods as pool hall employees. Listed below are the locations of some of the earliest known pool halls in Kentucky that were owned by African Americans. The research has not been fully explored looking at African Americans and pool halls as viable employment options, and the drawing power of pool halls as male spaces. They were also hired as porters in pool halls. In the billiard rooms, African American men were sometimes hired as porters. The finer side of the term 'pool hall' is 'billiard room,' often presented as a more civil space found within hotels and gentlemen's clubs. It is not always clear what distinguishes a pool hall from a saloon with pool tables. Other names for the establishments were 'pool rooms' and 'pool parlors.' Articles and books that mention the early pool halls tend to report them being in the less affluent areas of a town or city that has an atmosphere of crime. The pool halls were also segregated, though regardless of race they were all pretty much viewed as shady places of gaming, gambling, and drinking. The pool hall business was very much a man's business, and the clientele were men. Some of the businesses existed for a decade or more, passing from one owner to another.

During the early decades of the 20th Century, Louisville had the most African American owners of pool halls in the state, followed by Paducah and some of the smaller cities and rural communities around the state. In Kentucky, between the late 1800s and the late 1950s, African American men were employed in pool halls, but only a few were proprietors. This entry is a first step toward the history of African Americans in and from Kentucky who earned a living as owners and employees of pool hall establishments. From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (main entry) Pool Halls and Employees, Kentucky

Lexington billiards hall