CYPRESS : Council Approves Billiards Parlor

A billiards parlor soon will open across the street from Cypress College.

The City Council this week unanimously approved the project.

Construction of the second billiards parlor in the city is scheduled to begin in December, and owners hope to open for business in February.

A 5,000-square-foot facility will house 19 tables and two or three shuffleboards, said Eli Deukmajian, who will own and operate the pool hall.

He said only adults 21 and older will be allowed inside because beer and wine will be sold. The parlor will be open from 10 a.m. to 1 a.m. Sundays through Thursdays and 10 a.m. to 2 a.m. on weekends and holidays, when a security guard will be employed.

The pool hall will be in the Campus View Center on Valley View Street, next door to a video arcade, which Deukmajian also owns.

No one opposed the $200,000 project at Monday’s public hearing.

“I don’t think there will be any problems,” said Deukmajian, who owns another billiard parlor in Pomona across the street from Cal Poly Pomona.

“It will be very high quality,” project manager Herb Andrews said.

He said that an elaborate exhaust system to clear cigarette smoke will be installed and that playing pool will cost at least twice as much as at other parlors in nearby cities. One player will pay $5 an hour, two players will pay $7 an hour, and three or four players will have to pay $9 an hour.