Started at a variety of tables, just a friend and myself with him DMing. A dining room table, basement with an old dining table, a conference table in a room where his dad worked (and he had the keys to get us in after hours). We soon added more players and moved to playing atop a ping-pong table in the basement at his house. Got up to 6 or 7 players for most games when we merged games with another group.
He'd met a group of players discussing D&D when he was working at Pizza Hut and we all joined his game - yeah, it was a really sizeable crowd at times. He had the second floor of a house pretty much to himself. His bedroom had a dividing wall splitting his actual bedroom from an area with another ping-pong table - which sat atop a pair of sawhorses - atop which was a full 4x8 sheet of plywood - the surface of which was almost entirely covered by plastic-coated graph paper we used to be able to buy off a roll for about 40 cents a foot. Gamed there all day Saturdays, noon-midnight+, about 48 weeks a year, for the better part of a decade. A number of players moved away and/or gave up D&D.
Eventually I got a place of my own and by that time I was starting to run my own games so went back to a dining room table at my condo with a now much more manageable roster of players. Burned out on DMing for a while but joined as a player in another game that had been running by the guy who first DMed for me (he'd moved back into town). That one was at a large dining table in the living room of an oversized apartment being shared by other gamers. There were actually a couple other weekly games being played at the same table on different days.
Eventually wound up joining another new game starting up by old gaming aquaintences having moved back into town - back at another dining room table. His house was utterly trashed and I grew to despise his wife who was also playing with us, but the D&D itself was mostly fairly good. More moving around and I ran a few more games from my condo but had difficulty keeping games running when Spring and Summer came along. Finally _I_ moved and got another game started. This one started around a HUGE boardroom table in office space one of the players had for his business. I loved that space for gaming. TONS of room and storage for all the minis, books, Master Maze pieces and schtuff. Only problem was that it was a 30-45 minute drive for me, and when the game rolled into the AM hours it was annoying to have to still pack up my campaign stuff so I could work on the game at home and head home. When that business shrank he got rid of the office but we moved that table into my unfinished basement without a break in the campaign. Later moved the campaign to an outdoor venue.
The roster had finally shrunk to 4 fairly regular players. We were having good weather so on a fluke one night we set up the game outside under a large awning next to a travel trailer. When it got dark we set up oil lamps to game by. It was great. We managed to play for well over 6 months outdoors by oil lamp. I had a lot of fun running that game and while I wouldn't say it was perfect (still that 30-40 minute drive) I had reduced my DMing "overhead" to minimal gear and the mood of the actual physical setting of the table was awesome.
When it got cold again moved back to my basement for a while. This was all in Washington state in the Seattle/Tacoma area.
Finally, made a move to California. Back to kitchen table gaming but its been hard to start a game and keep it going. Best campaign I've managed in the last decade is probably a dozen sessions.
