Jon’s Pipe Shop Columbia Missouri is a Goodern!

[Briar Lee]

After her doctor’s appointment today my wife felt like visiting Columbia, Missouri.

Columbia is the home campus of the University of Missouri, and until about 25 years ago I used to visit the Nostalgia Shop by the courthouse. It’s moved out in the suburbs.

Searching Google I found Jon’s Pipe Shop, on the strollway, owned by Wayne Davis, age 88, since about 1975. I’ve overlooked this shop for over forty years.



Wayne got his doctorate in European history and bought Jon’s Pipe Shop and he’s been there since. You can smoke or drink beer or whiskey or read books and just loaf and solve all the world’s great problems.

This is a pipe lover’s enchanted, impossible dream come true.




Wayne might outlive you, so be sure and put his shop on your bucket list.

He has a huge selection of high grade old reconditioned estate pipes at $35-$80 and I selected a fine twenties WDC Milano patent for $65 which is among my fanciest and best pipes in my buckets and buckets of pipes and some tobacco.

Make the pilgrimage.

You’ll never regret it.

March 2023 – Peterson Pipe Notes

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[OzPiper]

@Briar Lee
Nice find !

Wayne Davis looks like he is living his dream.
And long may he do so

 

[Briar Lee]

@Briar Lee
Nice find !

Wayne Davis looks like he is living his dream.
And long may he do so

Wayne has a Mid Atlantic senatorial accent and when I asked him about Pre 54 Algerian briar he tactfully said

It certainly was very good.

And Italian briar was and is good.

What a novice must beware of is getting inferior briar today, unless he is willing to pay for good briar.

He has a relationship with a pipe repairman and restorer.

Those pipes hung on the walls are his Fischers, he paid $6 each when somebody offered them when Fischer closed. No, they are his and not for sale.



It’s a magical place caught in a time warp,

 

[OzPiper]

It’s a magical place caught in a time warp,

I recently had a trip to Malaysia with a couple of good friends, and we visited 3 towns largely unpolluted by glass and cement towers.

When you chance on places like that, you are transported to a different world and era.
We're lucky that such places still survive.
But one wonders how long they will hang on in there ?
And will the families keep them going.
One suspects not in too many instances