^ ^ ^ pretty much ::There are, in addition, pipes for every occasion—to puff in the morning, after lunch, in the office, at church, or in the deepest privacy of a smoking room.
And if we measure the rate from the currency's inception in 1913, $80 would now be over $2000, for an inflation rate of 2500%.haha had the same thought, george
Other outlets, including the Wilke Pipe Shop at 400 Madison Avenue, at 47th Street, one of the oldest in the city, offer briar pipes from about $6 for “seconds”—those with minor blemishes. The bulk of their briars come from Greece or Corsica, where there seems not to be a painful shortage. On the other hand, Wilke has a pipe for $1,000. Aroniza Zipper, one of the shop's clerks, sold another last week for $500 to a young seaman. The briar was Algerian.
Pipe smokers, it appears, are a tenacious lot. Once habituated, they go on forever.
Yeah. 'T'was ever thus, I think, Neal. Good thing too.....not much has changed over time