Vermont Billiard & Pool Hall

I come to this spot twice a week. If your looking for great atmosphere this probably isn’t your first spot to go to. If you are looking for a place with no wait time where you can freely drink your own tall cans, shoot pool and kick it with your friends all for a cheaper deal than the other places around then this is your best bet!

I know this rating might seem a little high, considering the location and quality of the place. But, unless you’re a snobby pool player, this place is really that great. You can smoke, and the atmosphere is fun. Lot’s of loud Mexicans, and then small groups of students. It’s right across the street from a community college, so expect to see that.

I don’t know the «standard» price of a table for an hour, but at $ 7/​hour this place has me sold.
At first, this place was somewhat uhh «intimidating,» to say the least. But I guess what pool hall isn’t intimidating to a first-​timer, right? We walking in and there were about 10 people gathered around the main table. Looked like a heated match was going on between one guy and another guy who had a gang of tattoos (he was just wearing his undershirt).
We stepped in not knowing the proper pool-​hall-​protocol, when the guy at the front gave us a tray and pointed to the back. We asked, «We pay after we’re done?» He stoically nodded and turned around. We headed to the back and started playing.
I’m sure there are some other pool halls in LA that are kept way cleaner and in tip-​top shape, but I ain’t complaining about this place. We had all the balls in good shape, the felt on the table wasn’t peeling, and the wood wasn’t rotting or badly beaten.
Seriously, this place is dirt cheap and the crowd is always entertaining.
Oh, and if you want some cup-​o-​noodles, this place sells ‘em for a $ 1 at the front.

After entering the amusement complex down the street to find one little pool table squeezed between 2 air hockey tables we decided to chance it and check out this place a few doors down.
Poking your head in isn’t really an option since the counter is near the door and all heads seem to turn when a new face arrives. But, as we entered my bf leaned over to me and said «let’s live a little.» So for $ 8 an hour we gathered some sticks and picked an empty table. It is one large room with completely white walls, blazing florescent lights overhead and no where to really be unseen by all other eyes. Definitely not a typical pool hall environment. There is a jukebox in the corner, but I was advised not to play any song that wasn’t in Spanish, and sure enough 5 min later that was what was blasting over the speakers. There are 2 flat screen tv’s on the walls, but the power chords are just dangling.
They allow smoking and hot Cheetos but no alcohol or real food which like previously stated is probably a good thing. Oh, and if you’re a female in a little black dress, I don’t recommend sitting on the table trying to shoot behind your back. Especially because you will be the only female in the whole place period. Haha. But to be honest I had a great time, places like this seem to give you a good story to tell and build some character. Plus getting a glimpse of some great 80’s style Hispanic mullets and hearing more curse words that I didn’t even know in Spanish is always fun too.

At $ 7.00 per hour it is the cheapest deal in town, a total ghetto area, a loud Hispanic crowd, bad tables, you get what you pay for! If saving money is a big priority and nothing else matters this place may work for you. No alcohol, which is probably a good thing considering how loud and rowdy some of the players are, I would be suprised if there wasn’t some sneak drinking going on in this place. Some of the tables looked a little better than others, our table had loose, bad felt. The place reaks of cigarettes although I’m sure like everywhere else they are not allowed. I think this place could be summed up with something you would hear in an old submarine movie «DIVE, DIVE, DIVE!»