"One Sunday, people will go to a bowling alley or a pool parlor.
His comments were in regards to a pool parlor owner who had named his establishment Hitler's Den.
Baljit Singh Osan, the owner of a pool parlor called Hitler's Den in Nagpur, Maharashtra, said the name is what has made it famous all over town.
His pen-and-watercolor drawing "Narita International Airport: Various Curious Scenes of Airplanes" (2005) features cutaway views of circling airliners whose passengers enjoy gardens, hot tubs, a pool parlor, a chandeliered tearoom, and a library.
The writer Alfred Kazin recalled his daily routine with the historian Richard Hofstadter: "We'd work all morning at the New York Public Library, eat lunch at the Automat across the street, play one game of Ping-Pong — at which he'd beat me — at a pool parlor on 42nd Street.
Sometimes you'll see them at the cove, pool, pizza parlor, or forest flaunting their scrawny puppies and spoiled bratty children.
As New York City officials begin pondering an ordinance that would ban smoking in workplaces like bars, offices, pool halls, bingo parlors and bowling alleys, the experience of Los Angeles and some of its approximately 3,000 bars may be instructive.
Almost since its founding, Lago Agrio has been a service center for the oil industry, whose employees have flocked to the bars, discotheques, pool halls, karaoke parlors, cabarets and brothels that have proliferated here.
