There is a piece of Janis Joplin‘s coronary heart hitting the public sale block … an vintage pool desk she saved in her California residence … and the sale occurs to coincide along with her birthday.
The Queen of Rock & Roll was a big-time pool participant when she wasn’t rocking out within the Nineteen Sixties … enjoying billiards, ingesting beer and hanging out in pool halls … and when Janis purchased a house in Larkspur, CA in 1969 she put a classic pool desk in a room.
Now, on what would have been Janis’ 81st birthday, Julien’s Auctions is saying the sale of Janis’ pool table … a Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. Monarch Cushion 9′ pool desk from the Nineteen Twenties.
Janis moved into her single-story residence in Larkspur method again in 1969 … a few yr earlier than her deadly overdose in Hollywood … and the pool desk’s remained in the identical room in her home ever since.
JJ and her mates had been photographed utilizing the desk for a sport of pool in a characteristic from an August 1970 difficulty of Rolling Stone journal … she was on the duvet and a duplicate of the problem is included within the sale.
The opening bid begins at $2,500 and the public sale home tells us Janis’ pool desk is predicted to fetch between $10,000 to $20,000 when the mud settles.
Cue “Me and Bobby McGee.”
