Elvis Presley’s Pipe

[peregrinus]

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Cool?.

 

[cshubhra]

Leather covered pipes must have been in fashion then.

 

[mso489]

In the late 1950's, those were high style. I had a friend, a woman now in her eighties, who encountered Elvis when they were both in their late teens, remembering him as quite soft-spoken and polite in a charming way. My late wife's mother was a huge fan, mostly after The King departed, and my older sister still likes Elvis memorabilia; I'm sending her a black and white photo Elvis jigsaw puzzle for her birthday this month. I was never an ardent fan, but his music was the soundtrack of my childhood. I like his gospel best.

 

[ray47]

I've got the same pipe. I bought a 7 day set of Longchamps in a Longchamp case several years ago. Great smoking pipes.

 

[ssjones]

There is a large portrait of Elvis' father in the entry at Graceland, and he is holding a pipe.

Former Governor Marvin Mandel favored Longchamps. I engaged him at a fundraiser they drug him out to, when he was in his 90's. He told me that he had over 1,000 pipes and that they didn't let him smoke them anymore. He told me to come over sometimes and he would give me some. I procrastinated, and he passed away.

 

[canucklehead]

I remember as a little kid watching the Elvis movies, especially Blue Hawaii. When my daughter was little she liked Elvis music for a while because of Lilo&Stitch. In a lot of pictures I've seen of him he is wearing a leather jacket and being cool, so I guess it's fitting that his pipe wore a leather jacket as well.

 

[augiebd]

I have an old Longchamp estate that came in a lot that I won a couple years ago. My parents were both huge Elvis fans and I grew up with his music from the earliest age so also became a fan. I might need to restore the Longchamp sooner than later now that I know the King had one.

 

[ssjones]

I live with a pretty big Elvis fan.

 

[pappymac]

I remember as a little kid watching the Elvis movies, especially Blue Hawaii. When my daughter was little she liked Elvis music for a while because of Lilo&Stitch. In a lot of pictures I've seen of him he is wearing a leather jacket and being cool, so I guess it's fitting that his pipe wore a leather jacket as well.

I liked most of the Elvis movies. They were good, mindless entertainment which pretty much all followed the same plot.

 

[gerryp]

In the late 1950's, those were high style. I had a friend, a woman now in her eighties, who encountered Elvis when they were both in their late teens, remembering him as quite soft-spoken and polite in a charming way. My late wife's mother was a huge fan, mostly after The King departed, and my older sister still likes Elvis memorabilia; I'm sending her a black and white photo Elvis jigsaw puzzle for her birthday this month. I was never an ardent fan, but his music was the soundtrack of my childhood. I like his gospel best.

My mom is an Elvis fan. I remember when she and her friend saw him at the Capital Centre outside of DC. It was the 70s, not long before he died. She used to always play "Live from Hawaii", if I remember the title correctly, on the 8 track.

 

[prndl]

I used to know Janelle.

She passed several years ago.

 

[mso489]

Here's a long shot, but true. My minesweeper, USS Gallant, MSO 489, appeared in an Elvis movie in which he played a guy in transition from being a Navy diver to a civilian. There are actually scenes of the ship, and the actors aboard the ship, a few minutes early in the movie. A Forums member sent me a DVD of the movie. It actually makes me homesick for that old wooden hull. By the time I served on her, a radio shack had been added to the superstructure, but beyond that, it was mostly unchanged. I'll stop before I rattle on about the details. Movies being movies, we never had any divers operating off the ship.

 

[Casual]

USS Gallant, MSO 489

Here’s a picture to set the scene:

I read the whole Wikipedia article about her, and it was clearly incomplete, as it didn’t have a single sentence about pipe smoking.

 

[STP]

Aw, thank you. Thank you very much.

 

[danimalia]

I've always had a soft spot for The King, as by most accounts, he was a genuinely good guy. There were stories about how when he would tour and read local papers, he'd read of folks having trouble and show up and help them out with mortgage payments and the like.

I've always enjoyed his music. Very talented man.

 

[Wellington]

I'm cousins with Elvis through marriage, true story. My wife's great great great great grandpa (maybe more greats, can't remember) and his great great great grandpa were brothers. I'm basically famous.

 

[kcghost]

Seems like one time I had a leather covered pipe. Don't know where it is now.

 

[peregrinus]

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Seems like one time I had a leather covered pipe. Don't know where it is now.

I have lost track of some pipes also.
I recently “re-discovered” 2 Barling EL sized pipes that I had put away 20+ years ago because I thought them too small at that time.
Now, my preferences in tobaccos and my smoking habits have changed and I find them just right for some tobaccos.
Hope you rediscover your pipe.

 

[magicpiper]

Here's a long shot, but true. My minesweeper, USS Gallant, MSO 489, appeared in an Elvis movie in which he played a guy in transition from being a Navy diver to a civilian. There are actually scenes of the ship, and the actors aboard the ship, a few minutes early in the movie. A Forums member sent me a DVD of the movie. It actually makes me homesick for that old wooden hull. By the time I served on her, a radio shack had been added to the superstructure, but beyond that, it was mostly unchanged. I'll stop before I rattle on about the details. Movies being movies, we never had any divers operating off the ship.

I have been curious as to what your handle meant. Now I get it. Pretty cool.