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Date Posted: 19:21:07 07/13/09 Mon
Author: Joe
Author Host/IP: pool-173-56-27-18.nycmny.fios.verizon.net / 173.56.27.18
Subject: Re: Pop Klee's Soda Box
In reply to: Karol (Klee) Olson 's message, "Pop Klee's Soda Box" on 12:13:12 01/05/02 Sat

Karol Bill was one of a kind. He was a great guy. I bought my first fishing rod there. I used to shoot pool there in the mid sixtes. I remember he used to charge 60 cents and hour to play. Bill was amazing he remember evybodys name and nickname. Karol one thing you left out was that there where spitoons there. Also every table had that Klees curve. I think about the old days and Klees pool room was a steping stone when you grew up in Canarsie. Had many a good laught there. When Bill passed I was in shock, he was a legend. Legends are not suppose to die. Bill will live in the memories of everybody he came in contact with. God bless him

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barkstar, 11:01:46 11/25/20 Wed (c-73-55-171-201.hsd1.tx.comcast.net/73.55.171.201)

>My first memory of Pop Klee's goes back to when I was about 12, back in 1968. I had gone to Pop's to see about some fishing gear, with a buddy I fished with at Canarsie Pier. You may recall that the fishing gear was in the front of the store, pool tables in the back. Pop would acknowledge you when you walked in, then return to reading his folded newspaper (Canarsie Courier?), standing with one foot up. On this particular occasion the very moment we walked through the door one guy in the pool room struck another across the face with a cue stick. He knocked out his front teeth. I recall the guy saying, "Now ya know, Barry, ya don't mouth off at my girl". Classic Canarsie, right?!
At that age it was something that left (obviously) a lifelong impression.
I returned to Klee's several times, mostly to ogle the quality fishing gear. In particular I had my eye on a golden "Luxor" brand surf spinning reel, from France. It was $55.00, a fortune back then. Still, I continued to lust after it.
Today I own several of those reels. Whenever I take one out into the surf my mind immediately goes to Pop Klee's, Barry, and his new teeth.

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