Bensinger's Chicago IL USA - Embroidered Snapback HatBensingers Pool Hall was the inspiration for the movie The Hustler (1961) starring Paul Newman. The pool hall had beautiful side lighting. As it fell on the host of characters office workers, serious players, blue collar guys and pool sharks alike . Chicago was once one of the preeminent pool hotspots in the United States. Though New York had, at the towering height of pool's popularity in the 1920s, up to 5,000 poolrooms, at least one eyewitness said