Legendary Luckey’s Club Cigar Store turns 100

(Eugene Register-Guard) Just about every day after work, Kenley Schoonover heads from his barista job at Theo’s Coffee House a couple of blocks away to unwind and maybe shoot some pool — not to mention the breeze — in the darkened depths of Luckey’s Club Cigar Store.
He’s not the only one. Construction journeyman Patrick Cullen often heads that way, too, ready to toss back a brew or two and pit his skill against all comers on the 1948 green-felted Brunswick pool tables.
The two take their places in a long line of regulars that stretches back 100 years, past the pre-women’s lib days when it was OK to have lettering on the window saying, “Serving the gentlemen of Eugene since 1911” — still there, it’s now quaint rather than exclusionary — through the Korean and Vietnam wars, World War II, the Great Depression and the Prohibition years that kept the country “dry” from 1920 to 1933. It goes even further, earlier even than World War I, to the pre-Luckey’s days when it was simply called The Club Cigar Store. Continued