civilized ku # 584-85 ~ small town news follow up
Friday, July 23, 2010 at 08:51AM 
Great Room / Lobby ~ Crowne Plaza Hotel, Lake Placid, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenOn yesterday's entry about the near tragic events now known as the Great Pool Table Rescue, Jimmi Nuffin asked:
Was the "Great Room" really great? If it was, compared to what?
The Great Room, albeit of more modern rustic design, is rather great by comparison to, say, for example, your living room.
Mary Dennis asked:
...how was the young boy finally extricated from his predicament? And how is it even possible to get your hand stuck in a pool table??
Don't know how the boy's arm got stuck other than to say that 9-ish year old boys are rather clever that way. As for how the arm was extricated, I believe, but did not witness, the use of a powered screwdriver and bit of pool table disassembly did the trick.
And, Mary, "absurdist Norman Rockwell vibe" is a spot-on life-imitating-art observation - even if Rockwell's pictures were of the art-imitating-life variety.
Reader Comments (1)
The wooden beams look impressive - you don't see a lot of serious timber work in my part of the world (South Australia).