He spent five years in that hall, learning a game that takes a lifetime to master, and crafting a vision in his head for how he’d want his own billiards room to look someday. Sharps has been open for five months, its clientele is increasing and Brower said business is right in line with his expectations. Maybe not, but business is taking off. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was unable to carry out its activities during the quarantine period, and now operating against the background of various activity restrictions, the club made a decision to diversify its activities and focus more on business events and private evenings, which would allow to increase the flow of billiards customers and operate more freely in the event of various restrictions. I sold everything, Billiards Club Design hit the road and the rug got pulled out from under me," Adams said. During one of Brower’s weeks home from his Slope job, he pulled up to the strip mall that houses Katina’s Restaurant on the Kenai Spur Highway heading north out of town and peered in one of the windows.

Meanwhile, Adams worked at IGA Country Foods for a while, then took a job on the North Slope. Brower and Sharps manager, Tim Adams, spent three months renovating the space in between shifts working on the North Slope. Any surprise that statement may evoke disappears after opening the tinted-glass doors of Sharps Billiards and seeing the meticulously designed, mahogany- and nickel-themed interior that was three months of remodeling work, four buildings and 19 years in the making. UAB „Biliardo projektai" UAB „Biliardo projektai" has been managing the high-standard billiard club „Arena Billiards", which has been successfully operating in Kaunas for three years. "I decided about 19 years ago I was going to do this, and basically the way people see it today is how I envisioned it," he said. What patrons are going to see is the design Brower envisioned 19 years ago and has refined since then. Brower and Adams worked at a billiards room in Anchorage in 1994. Adams saw the promise of Brower’s dream to open his own billiards hall someday, and Brower knew that employees work better if they’ve got a vested interest in what they do, so he wanted to bring Adams in as an investor as well as manager.

That theme is echoed throughout the hall. The only wood in Sharps that doesn’t carry the mahogany theme is the pool cues, which add a structural element on the walls that look more like art than sports equipment. People don’t even write on the bathroom walls - except this one," Brower said, indicating his 5-year-old daughter, Jaden Hope, who seems to have inherited dad’s penchant for design and likes to express it wherever she can, whether it’s on paper, her clothes or the bathroom wall. The pine wainscoting on all the walls and back counter is stained a mahogany color, as is the facing on the structural posts, the counters around the room and the dividing rail in the center of the space splitting one row of tables from the other. The first space Brower considered was the old Trustworthy Hardware store in the Peninsula Center Mall parking lot in Soldotna.

His third trip back to square one took him to the old Carr’s store in the Kenai Mall. Brower then investigated the old Gottschalks building next to Beemun’s on the Kenai Spur Highway in Soldotna. Brower said he went all out with the tables, with $250 pool racks that are accurate to within one-thousandth of an inch, and Sharp’s has the only regulation billiards table around. Avoid the left side to stay out of the heavy rough, deep bunker, and the lake. Isabel: A lot of us have such different personalities, the beauty of it is that we all geek out about different things or get excited about different things. As you prepare to experience the splendor that is Big Cedar Golf, take a hole-by-hole tour to get a taste of the courses that make up America’s Nature Golf Destination. Through the creation of Payne's Valley Golf Course™, Tiger Woods and Big Cedar Lodge offers a course where players of all skill levels are invited to come together to experience the breathtaking Ozark Mountain Landscape.