That was a long time ago, and Lee has never looked back on the decision to stay in the business that his father introduced him to as a young boy. When Harry became too ill to run the business, Lee took over. In 1973, Lee fresh out of the Army was jobless and searching for what he would want to do with his life.Īs a student at San Francisco State, he would drift north to Novato where Harry had opened Harry's Novato Family Billiards and started working part-time alongside his father. Lee grew up in the business, learning from his father what it takes to run a successful pool hall while also becoming knowledgeable about the game, the tables, the cues, and the culture of pool.
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Harry kept good company and wound up selling that pool hall to Sax Dal Porto, another top player in the billiards world.Īlong the way, Lee Simon, Harry's son, became an unwitting provider of free labor in the family-run pool halls. Several years later he purchased Sequoia Billiards which was owned by Dorothy Wise, who was recognized as the greatest woman player of her day and inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame in 1981. The legacy of Buffalo Billiards began in 1953 in Wells, Nevada when Harry Simon opened what would be the first of his many pool halls in the basement of the Pequop Casino.
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