I Know it's Been Done Before, but Post Some Cool Piping Photos.

[Bengel]

 

[Warlee]

I'd like to know the story behind this photo!

I found the description:

“Miners 850 feet deep in the Hubert Mine, Nevadaville, Colorado 1895.”

 

[Briarcutter]

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Looks like a Costello


As in Lou......

 

[makhorkasmoker]

During its early years, Prince Albert and several other brands were multipurpose RYO and pipe tobacco.

It was the standard issue RYO tobacco on many Georgia chain gangs back in the day

 

[JoburgB2]

That is George Adamson, his wife Joy wrote the Born Free series. He wrote an interesting autobio called 'My Pride and Joy'. He worked caring for lions in Kenya, and was killed by Somali bandits in 1989 at age 83. More info:

George Adamson Information - Father of Lions

Quo on Goodreads tells how he, as a lad, visited George at his African camp: "being young & somewhat less than adequately fearful of the local warnings, a friend & myself would borrow a rattly antique Landrover from a mission station run by the Italian Consolata Fathers, stopping at the local Indian (Hindu) store in Meru to buy a bottle of White Horse scotch and we then had full admission to George's world for the weekend. Bringing some Three Nuns or other pipe tobacco also helped to seal the deal." Source:
Quo's review of Bwana Game - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/917519228?book_show_action=true

Ah, memories of Africa. Once you get African dust on your toes, you cannot remove it.

 

[Jef]

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Excellent!!!!

 

[Spring-Loaded]

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

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He sure knew how to "keep it smokey."

 

[fr0st]

 

[skydog]

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

I found this one of Michael Chiklis and Jaws hanging out on the beach. Not sure of the date it was taken but Jaws looks quite young and also has legs for some reason.



They were obviously pretty close at one point.

 

[cynyr]

@skydog There's no mistaking Duane Allman, but I don't know the pipesmoker. Tom Dowd, maybe?

 

[skydog]

@skydog There's no mistaking Duane Allman, but I don't know the pipesmoker. Tom Dowd, maybe?

Yep, Tom Dowd. With Dickey in the foreground and Thom Doucette in the background behind Duane. Enough musical talent just in that photo to move a mountain!

 

[Bike623]

 

[fr0st]

I found a patent submitted by the science fiction author Kurt Vonnegut.

“One object of the invention is to provide a tobacco pipe which may be kept clean with the least possible difliculty.”


More info

 

[jaingorenard]

I found a patent submitted by the science fiction author Kurt Vonnegut.

“One object of the invention is to provide a tobacco pipe which may be kept clean with the least possible difliculty.”

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More info

Sadly not the same man, just the same name:

Vonnegut - Pipedia

pipedia.org

 

[anotherbob]

More my speed.

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Love when you see pictures that show how active trade was at that time. I assume it's an older photo. Like the picture of the one Warrior (sorry forget the tribe, I should know but I don't want to get it wrong) who is wearing a katana.

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like how proud he is of his battle wounds.

 

[anotherbob]

Sorry, but there's a lot that's not quite right in this photograph. Firstly, he's too old to be in uniform; secondly, beards only became allowable in the British Army on 29 March of this year, so how had he found time to grow a beard like that? Thirdly, the leather jerkin went out of Service issue after 1945. Fourthly, the kit he is wearing dates from WW2 to the 1950s, and fifthly, the regimental badge is completely unfamiliar to me, and it looks like either an AI mashup of three different unit badges, or one pinched from somebody else's army. And I'll tell you what else: I wouldn't want to be his age, still in uniform and still only a corporal.

it said he's a reenactor. So the badge might be an intentional mashup.

 

[JoburgB2]

Sadly not the same man, just the same name:

Vonnegut - Pipedia

pipedia.org

So who might it be? His father? The patent mentions the name and Indianapolis, and I seem to recall that is a city associated with Vonnegut at least at some time. That’s a few coincidences is it not? Anyway, the invention looks a little too intricate and unnecessary. Although clever, it’s not hard to imagine why it is not today a standard, popular feature.

 

[anotherbob]

The boys loved their tobacco too, puts a whole different perspective on us as we whinge, whine and lament a change in blend. None of us would last around men like these!

https://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/single.cfm/post/tobacco-and-the-shipwreck-the-endurance

I am sure they whinged about somethings we'd not bat an eye at. People are just weird temperamental animals with a lot of useful as well as stupid tricks. For example clothes. And most people ever couldn't do what they did, they weren't sure they could probably too. It's like why they're notable