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Lifer
Jan 8, 2011
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Any of you fellow pipers in the Long Beach / L.A. area? I will be there for the week starting Tuesday and am looking for places to hit after work. I will be restricted to the general Long Beach area this time but will have many trip in the future.

 

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Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
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My memories of Long Beach/LA go so far back, I remember it as a big homeport for the U.S. Navy. I think that

is about gone, and that it has become instead a big importing center, using a lot of that deep water port for

Pacific freighter traffic. Back in its sailor bar and tattoo parlor days, Long Beach retail didn't include any good

pipe shops. The sailors ran on cigarettes and an occasional cigar, and not even officers smoked pipes, in

general. But the scene has changed completely. Someone may be doing a brisk business, but not anyone who

has a historical business that goes back to the 1950s, I don't think.

 
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