51.   The ads show attractive women perching on a motorcycle or vamping in a pool hall.

52.   The gang took its name from an Avenue C pool hall, the Champion, where dealers sold heroin and cocaine.

53.   The pool halls my father dreaded were the kind you used to see next to bus stations on the wrong side of whatever tracks they were near.

54.   The rest of the day he spent sleeping or hanging around a pool hall, smoking.

55.   The pool halls are open, the bars are open, and single guys are still flirting with single girls.

56.   The stocky, proud Tejeda, who liked to hang out at pool halls, earned a reputation for being quick with his fists.

57.   The Rough House pool hall is dark and smoky, filled with locals proud that South Carolina is the last state to fly the Confederate flag from its Capitol.

58.   The sullen, angry Dorjee, who hates the Chinese, has no job, drinks heavily and hangs out in pool halls and brothels.

59.   Then she started taking them around to the barbershops and drugstores and pool halls and anywhere else she might find a few hungry men.

60.   There are pool halls.