There’s a piece of Janis Joplin‘s heart hitting the auction block … an antique pool table she kept in her California home … and the sale happens to coincide with her birthday.
The Queen of Rock & Roll was a big-time pool player when she wasn’t rocking out in the 1960s … playing billiards, drinking beer and hanging out in pool halls … and when Janis bought a home in Larkspur, CA in 1969 she put a vintage pool table in a room.
Now, on what would have been Janis’ 81st birthday, Julien’s Auctions is announcing the sale of Janis’ pool table … a Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. Monarch Cushion 9′ pool table from the 1920s.
Janis moved into her single-story home in Larkspur way back in 1969 … about a year before her fatal overdose in Hollywood … and the pool table’s remained in the same room in her house ever since.
JJ and her friends were photographed using the table for a game of pool in a feature from an August 1970 issue of Rolling Stone magazine … she was on the cover and a copy of the issue is included in the sale.
The opening bid starts at $2,500 and the auction house tells us Janis’ pool table is expected to fetch between $10,000 to $20,000 when the dust settles.
Cue “Me and Bobby McGee.”
