Ye Olde Tobacconist Shoppe, The Way Things Once Were (image heavy)

[misterlowercase]

 

[sablebrush52]

Superb update! Thank you Minister Of Tobacciana!

 

[edgreen]

Amazing thread. Thanks

 

[k1j3l]

I'm sure working in one of these places would have been magical O.O

 

[misterlowercase]

Post-war England was pretty rough with much shortage of goods,

including tobacco...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVK8ZaLsxjc

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BONUS VIDEO!

Clip of BAT Commercial Road factory in Liverpool showing Abdulla rose petal tipped ciggies being made by hand,

this factory opened 1912 and was closed in 1990.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrldWmzUoNE

 

[misterlowercase]

 

[papipeguy]

Another excellent entry, Troy. I can't wait to read the comments about the "Rejected Virgins".

 

[misterlowercase]

I can't wait to read the comments about the "Rejected Virgins".

:P

That pic is priceless!

 

[seacaptain]

Awesome pics!

 

[jackswilling]

Mesmerizing nostalgia

Thank you MLC

 

[monty55]

Very very cool! Thank you Minister!!

 

[buroak]

I can't wait to read the comments about the "Rejected Virgins".

The Virgins might be rejects, but you can have 72 of them for much less than the cost of martyrdom.

 

[monty55]

^^^ :rofl: I'm not sure that can be topped!

 

[thefalcon]

misterlowercase,
What a wonderful collection of Ephemera, thanks for sharing!
Eric

 

[sjpipesmoker]

I would love to step back in time and visit a few of those shops...great photos!

 

[gloucesterman]

There is more than enough material here for a really great coffee table book. Thanks for all the contributions. It's a great thread.

 

[misterlowercase]

Usually I wait a while to update this,

building up images,

but found this 1906 Charing Cross pic and wanted to share it because it's pretty damn cool...

And, might as well post these few windows too...

And,

how's this for a tobacconist shopname?

Live And Let Live!

Indeed.

One last thing,

talk about rare nomenclature!

An old Michelin advertising pipe with good 'ol Bibendum!

 

[monty55]

So cool! Thank you Minister!!

 

[okiescout]

Thomas Wolfe wrote a novel "You Can't Go Home Again" in a series of writings discussing the changes in American society of the 1920's and 30's.

That fact was born out in my mind when, at the age of 34, returning to visit my home town, I decided to take a drive out to the site of my grandfathers farm. Upon arriving, several acres of concrete with a car dealership on top setting just off US highway 77, greeted me. Where once had been a country home with barns and outbuildings ,sunny glades rimmed with shady Cedar,Oak, and Elm, my vision now encountered concrete, neon lights, cold metal, and glass. The old home place and farm for which I held so many warm fond boyhood memories was irrevocably gone, wiped out, never to exist in reality again.
These pics are the closest we can come to returning to the old days, with all of their good and bad. Really wonderful pics and clips of yesteryear. Thank you all for sharing.

 

[ssjones]

Yes, without these pictures, those places are lost to time.