Johnston City Stories: Daddy Warbucks, a Hat and a Toilet Brush

by | Feb 27, 2019 | Hubert Cokes, Hustler Stories, Jansco Brothers

Gary Carlson, a former graduate student from Southern Illinois who wrote recently about a chance encounter he had with Minnesota Fats, also sent in a note about stumbling into a poolroom owned by George and Paulie Jansco. This was sometime back in the late 1960s. The Janscos were the creators of the famous Johnston City tournaments, which I write about in Hustler Days. Carlson appears to have...