Ralph ("r.e.") bowen's pool room
"When you want to play pool or billiards at first class tables," go there.
No longer a young man of 24, Ralph (far right) with his wife Grace and sons Lloyd and Raymond.
Document 42, a 1911 Pocket Directory to Table Rock, Nebraska, includes some business advertisements. Those businesses include R. E. Bowen's Pool Room -- second page, 2nd panel from the left. Bowen's pool room, also dealers in "fine cigars."
Ralph Bowen (1887-1949) was just a young man when he engaged in this venture, 24. He had been married four years to Grace Horton. The pool room did not ultimately prove to be a sustaining career. He went to work for the railroad, and eventually retired from that job.
The current location of the pool room is unknown. Perhaps it was in one of the building on the south side of the Square that burned in 1920. Perhaps it was in one of the buildings on the west side of the Square that were eventually pulled down to be replaced by the present buildings.
Ralph Bowen (1887-1949) was just a young man when he engaged in this venture, 24. He had been married four years to Grace Horton. The pool room did not ultimately prove to be a sustaining career. He went to work for the railroad, and eventually retired from that job.
The current location of the pool room is unknown. Perhaps it was in one of the building on the south side of the Square that burned in 1920. Perhaps it was in one of the buildings on the west side of the Square that were eventually pulled down to be replaced by the present buildings.
