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“We needed other options and integrated other games to supplement our sales,” he adds. That number has decreased today to about 10,000, but the company has diversified its product offering to remain viable, Colby Olhausen notes. We offer all our models – old and new.”īefore the housing market crash, Olhausen Billiards was manufacturing almost 30,000 tables a year. “A lot of manufacturers dump their old models and bring in their new ones. “Every year we come out with new models, but we also keep every model we have manufactured from the past,” says Colby Olhausen, Donny Olhausen’s son. Olhausen Billiards has debuted new pool table models every year since its inception at the annual Billiard Congress of America’s (BCA) International Billiard & Home Recreation Expo.

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“We offer every type of pool table imaginable from ornate pieces of furniture to professional tournament-quality tables.” “Our tables have become known in the industry as the ‘Best in Billiards’ and I am very proud of that,” Donny Olhausen says. Today, Olhausen Billiards operates out of a 250,000-square-foot facility in Portland, Tenn., and has manufactured more than 500,000 pool tables. Olhausen’s father, Jerry, learned about the billiards industry from his father before leaving Hartley for Las Cruces, N.M., where he started his own billiard sales and service business in 1953.īoth brothers worked for their father while growing up in Las Cruces and decided to begin their own venture in 1972 when they moved to San Diego to start Olhausen Billiards. The Olhausen name has been synonymous with the billiards industry for more than 70 years, when the brother’s grandfather grew tired of growing corn in Hartley, Iowa, and sold the farm to buy a poolroom in town. “Every Olhausen pool table is still built to order.” “Even though our capacity to produce pool tables has greatly increased, our constant dedication to quality has not changed,” says Donny Olhausen, founder and CEO. The pair founded the company more than 40 years ago and Donny Olhausen says he now operates the world’s largest pool table manufacturing facility. The former tenant occupied the building for 48 years.Brothers Donny and Butch Olhausen’s lifelong passion for billiards laid the foundation for Olhausen Billiards. The lighting really shows off the tables. It’s a cozy space that feels more like a sports bar. Take a look at what they used to make the tables. There’s plenty of seating in the back, too. The space’s bones remain after the remodel. Barry Brecheisen/Eater Chicago There’s bench seating along the wall. The front part of the space will be more of coffee drinkers during the mornings. Ownership kept Marie’s old sign and replaced the cover.

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They’ll reopen on Monday with regular hours and the TVs will be tuned to New Year’s Day bowl games. Surge is open and Friday and Saturday, but will be closed on New Year’s Eve. Merchant said he’s fond of the Old Fashioned (Old Forester bourbon, Demerara syrup made with Metropolis coffee).įans of Marie’s will be curious to see what Merchant’s done with their old place. The cocktail consulting group has created drink lists for clients including Billy Lawless’s The Dawson, The Gage, and Coda di Volpe. Surge will also offer six rotating signature cocktails created by The Dogma Group. Surge will pour Metropolis Coffee and serve food: pastries in the morning and pub food in the afternoon and evenings. Pool should be for everyone, and he sees the space as a community hub serving as a coffee shop by day and a bar at night. He welcomes serious billiards players, also wants to expand the game to novices. New owner Wahib Merchant has run Pressure Billiards & Cafe in Edgewater for 11 years. That space includes a bar with room for 20 stools and 14 Brunswick Crown V pool tables. Nine months later, and the 6,000-square-foot space feels more like a sports bar or modern coffee shop compared to the occasionally seedy pool hall that occupied the space for nearly five decades. New ownership gutted the 48-year-old pool hall: crews have been working on the space’s new look since March after Marie’s closed. Albany Park has an intriguing option to celebrate New Year’s Day as Surge Coffee Bar & Billiards opened Friday morning inside the former Marie’s Golden Cue space at 3241 W.