While Case might not be the typical player-turned-poolhall owner, she's planning on sharpening up her game. 'They weren't level and the cloth was pretty worn, so we had them cleaned up, got new pockets on them and now they look pretty.' 'We used the same Olhausen tables from at the old Buster's,' Case said. While serious music might take precedence over serious pool, the tables are an integral part of the space - not to mention a link to the old Buster's location.

So in addition to the six-table poolhall up front, the Cases added a 7,000-square-foot venue in back. So we were like, 'Why not extend this and put some live music in the back?'' 'But then this opportunity came up - the newly forming Lexington Distillery District, which is an awesome development. 'We were just going to relocate it as a poolhall,' Case said. What they found was the Old Tarr Distillery, a warehouse built in the 1860s used to store bourbon. 'There was this jukebox filled with punk and the Cure and just all these bands that you'd never hear their music played over the speakers at any other bar in town,' Jessica Case said.īut with the old Buster's a casualty of a downtown revitalization effort, the Cases needed a new home. Right on Main Street in Lexington, Ky., the original Buster's served as a place to kill time after classes at the University of Kentucky, where you could drink some cheap beers, play a game of pool and jam the jukebox full of quarters.

The thing about Buster's Billiards & Backroom ('Backroom' being added with the official stage setup) is that it was - and still is - not what you'd expect when you think of your normal poolhall. So, they bought the place, relocated it to an old bourbon distillery warehouse and added a live music venue. WHEN THE building that housed the original Buster's Billiards was slated for demolition in the summer of 2008, longtime patrons Jessica and Clark Case decided they had to do something about it.

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