Kelly's Tavern - First Lost Of The Season

The bar we play against; with a chance to critique was Kelly’s Tavern – located on 9259 4^th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 11228. The bar is a large with entrances located on parallel sides of the block. Hardly missed by their all green sign and wall and they are the only green bar on the block.  As the team arrived, I went to take a quick photo of the place and I realized how awkward this is to just go in a bar and take pictures.

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There are two sections when you walk into this bar. On the right, there is a long bar with an older look and feel. On the left, there is a game room with darts, pool, racing car and other games. The walls looked freshly painted, with a selection of golden yellow and purple colors. The colors matched the room and made it look fun, but yet there was no relations to the color outside or to the rest of the bar. The Bar is long with a vintage type design the drinks a very cheap. Most of the people that were there - including the staff were extremely friendly and social. 

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The Purple Rose team experienced their first lost in the pool season to leave the bar tired and disappointed.  Lets see what happens to the rest of the season and what bar comes next! 

League and Project Upset!!!

The season was supposed to start on Wednesday, September 12^th. The people in charge of the league had some mix up so they postponed the first day for the following week – September 19^th. We had a meeting with the guy in charge to declare the rules of the APA (American Pool player’s Association) League and her let everyone one know he did not want last season to happen again. The meeting was held at the Purple Rose Bar, so there is nothing new I can really write about to critique because I did it in the previous entry. After the meeting we insisted on practicing as a team and talking about other ways to deal with cheating teams.

Some of the teams in many of the bars have a tendency to try to twist the rules in their favor or even distract the other team in order to gain a win. For some of these men and women billiards is there life and they get very mad when they lose. Some even to the point of using discriminant and prejudice slurs toward the winners. That can only be handled by the team captain or the bar owner if he or she wants to remove the player from the season or even there team in the league. There are no rules against yelling and cursing your opponent; it mostly falls in the area of sportsmanship.

Purple Rose Bar is going through changes at the moment and the owners are revising the pricing, creating menus and changing staff. The bar season will start picking up and the recreation of the bar is looking good thus far, but the changes will not be noticed until the big changes are completed toward the end. Keep up with the blog to see how the team is doing or the update about other bars in the area.

Introduction - Purple Rose bar

The Purple Rose is a bar located at 7217 8th Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y., 11228 in Bay Ridge. The bar has a billiards team that plays in the APA league on Wednesday nights. This gives the bars a chance to make money on days that are not so busy. All teams eventually have to travel from bar to bar to participate in the away games. This gives me the opportunity to go to many bars and critique them. Most bars offer the same things, like alcohol and music. Many bars try to incorporate events on specific days that will attract customers. What I will be doing is traveling from bar to bar every week with the Billiards team; to critique each bar on its looks, drinks, people, fun level and etc. Lets start with Purple Rose Bar since it is the home base bar for me.

Purple Rose is located off the main avenues, right near the highway. There is always parking spot within 1-2 blocks radius. The problem is that it is not located on a main avenue and to find it for the first time sometimes become difficult because the two way street turns into a one way. The only time there is a cover charge at the door is when there is a fundraiser going on by a private party. The bartenders are all very social and targets to bring in different crowds. During the day there is the older crowd that comes in to watch sports and drink. Purple Rose has the cheapest prices for drinks in the area; top shelf is only $7 and the drinks are not watered down. There are three 42” flat screen televisions, pool table, dart board to go a long with the nice size of the bar. On Wednesdays the pool team gets together to practice for the league, which will be starting September 12^th 2012 at 8pm. Thursdays there is a beer pong competition that just ended and is now recruiting more players for the one coming up in October. Every Friday and Saturday there is a DJ and drink specials.

There will be guest DJs and Bartenders in order to attack different crowds and gain customers that will become regualrs. The people are friendly and it has become more like a family environment. Customers stop by just to say hi and try to help out in the bar. There is a lot to do here and a lot of opportunity to incorporate more. Lets see what happens after the changes. The bar just started to go through renovations, which will take up to two weeks. The paint will go from a tan color to a lavender purple. The lighting will change to a more dim colorful setting and games like the Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3 will be installed. There will also be furniture changes but I will post the outcome at a later date.