Hello from Austin, TX

[Lefty W.]

Hello, all. I am an occasional pipe smoker, mostly during the cooler months. I got the itch decades ago, while in high school, smoking the obligatory drug store blends such as Borkum Riff. My first pipe was a smaller Peterson system pipe, and my second was a gourd and meershaum calabash. I used to longingly peruse the goods at the Dunhill store in the Galleria mall in Houston, which was near my grandmother's house.

I took up the hobby again in the mid-1990s, during the great cigar-and-martini-bar scare; I figured everyone else could concentrate on cigars.

My favorite blend of all time was the PCCA "Noel," which if I remember correctly was made by McClelland (RIP) for the Pipe Collectors Club of America. Long since out of production.

I returned to Austin from New Orleans this past Sunday, and while driving through St. James Parish, I felt the need to smoke something with a bit of Perique in it; someday I would love to tour the Perique factory(ies) there.

 

[diamondback]

Very nice! I started cigars back in the mid 90’s cigar epidemic Switched to the pipe in late ‘07.

Great introduction and glad to have ya

Nicholas (diamondback) from Middle Tennessee.

 

[spartacus]

Welcome from Arizona!

 

[danimalia]

Welcome from the SF Bay Area!

 

[adui]

Another welcome from Arizona! Pull a chair, light a pipe and stay a while.

 

[jaytex1969]

Hello, Lefty. Welcome from Austin.

Pipe Club meeting tomorrow evening at Habana House (north) off 183 at 5-7 pm, if interested.

I'll likely be working and won't make it but I am contemplating an afternoon visit to Pipe World on Anderson today.

 

[Lefty W.]

Hello, Lefty. Welcome from Austin.

Pipe Club meeting tomorrow evening at Habana House (north) off 183 at 5-7 pm, if interested.

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Thank you, Jay. I had heard about the Austin Pipe Club, but I have never seemed to be able to make it to a meeting up north. I am south, near Zilker Park. Do some of the meetings take place at Pipe World?

 

[jaytex1969]

Yes. Second Thursday of the month at Habana House and fourth Thursday at Pipe World on Anderson. (I think, ? )

James ( @pylorns ) is our club president. If you mail him 2 tins, he'll show you the secret handshake....

 

[smokiespipesmoker123]

Welcome Welcome! From East Tennessee

 

[cigrmaster]

Welcome from Florida.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Thanks for the great intro and Best Greets to Texasland from Finland-EU

 

[curl]

Hola from Houston.
Pipe club is worth the drive. I live close to my club, but the roads are full of Friday evening traffic. But the conversation is good, so is the sharing and show and tell.

 

[briarbuck]

I was in Austin for 4 days smokin' a pipe about 3 weeks ago. Interesting town you have there...

 

[trouttimes]

Welcome from the Colorado high country.

 

[tomnernas2ndson]

Welcome from Nebraska

 

[Lefty W.]

I was in Austin for 4 days smokin' a pipe about 3 weeks ago. Interesting town you have there...

I hope you had a good time.

We play a little game here in Austin; it's called "You should have seen it (x) [years] [days] [hours] ago..."

 

[jaytex1969]

It's a great place to live, as long as you don't leave the house between 4-7pm.

 

[mso489]

I like the martini and cigar bar scare. Welcome from central North Carolina. A bit of history, LBJ won his first election mocking his opponent's smoking a pipe, borrowing a pipe from someone at a rally and imitating his opponent puffing away, as if derelict in his office. Glad to hear Lyndon didn't kill the briar forever in Texas.

 

[derhammer]

Welcome aboard

 

[Lefty W.]

A bit of history, LBJ won his first election mocking his opponent's smoking a pipe, borrowing a pipe from someone at a rally and imitating his opponent puffing away, as if derelict in his office. Glad to hear Lyndon didn't kill the briar forever in Texas.

I have not heard that before; good to know. I'll need to look that up at the LBJ library here in town.