This attitudes have died down greatly but it wasn't the same almost 60 years ago. Even in pop culture and general attitudes, people associated billiards with crooked people, immoral, and only for males.

One example shows in the movie Pinocchio when the bad kids are seen playing pool.

Why was billiards shown like this?

Rudolph Wonderone doesn't know why pool got a"bad name"
during the depression days. "It don't make no sense, because it's a clean sport.They don't allow no drinkin' around the tables. I personally have never had a drink or a smoke in my life.
I guess maybe the reason it got a bad name was that in the depression, everybody was supposed to work hard or starve. You weren't supposed to have no fun.

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