Julian Billiards New York City Vintage Pool Hall TeeJulians: an old school pool hall in Union Square When the 1920s theater at 138 East 14th Street bit the dust in 1997, more was lost than just the Palladium nightclub, which had occupied the space in the 1980s. On the second floor was the cavernous Julian Billiard Academy, run since 1933 by the Julian family but operating as a pool hall since 1916. Until Julians shut its doors in 1991, it was New Yorks oldest billiards room and once one of hundreds