Comments on: Requiem for a Pool Table

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:48:05 +0000

I have a Wards pool table that I bought 2nd hand in 1979 Back then I had the help of a friend and his dad and my father, so moving it went very well in about 14 hours and we had college football to watch as we did it. I haven’t located the Wards Owner’s Manual that came with it for a few years, and am still looking, but I recall it had instructions for Assembly and Disassembly.

My table has three one inch thick slate pieces and the ball-return railings under the pockets and is made of top grade knot-free yellow pine wood. I will get pics of my table on my website in a link toward the top later today.

I am hoping to find someone with a copy of that owner’s manual so I can ask for a copy or scanned images of the pages sent to me. I need to take down the table and store it and don’t want to mess it up because I still love playing on my old table and, of course, so does my wife

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:12:43 +0000

Man, I have no idea. You can always check Craigslist. That’s usually a good barometer for prices in your area. Plus you’ll probably get a larger cross section of tables to pull data from.

By: Shelly

Shelly — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:31:36 +0000

I enjoyed reading about your pool table story. My grandparents purchased a pool table from Montgomery Wards as well. Probably around that same year. They have since passed and now my father is trying to sell the table. How much do you think they are worth? Any ideas where I can find the value?

Thanks,