My First Chicago Show - 2009

[admin]

This site launched on a whim in 2009, and a few months in, I went to the "Chicago Pipe Show".

I had no idea at the time what a hidden world we had in the pipe sub-culture.

I thought this was a fun look back in time. Maybe you will too.

The 2009 Chicagoland Int’l Pipe & Tobacciana Show​

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I was having deje vu until I realized what you've done. It is awesome that this new format allows you to do all of this. And, I didn't mind reading it again, and experiencing this vicariously through your words. Thanks for all that you do, Kevin!

 

[mso489]

Those were the days, my friend. Amazing Pheasant Run provided a venue all those years. When the Chicago show reemerges, whenever and wherever that is, I think it will be as good again.

 

[kcghost]

The 2009 Chicago show was amazing. It was my first or second show and it was off the charts good!!

 

[hauntedmyst]

Excellent article!

 

[stevecourtright]

Thank you for the article, Kevin.

On October 5, 2021, Tim Garrity from CPCC reported:

"It is with great sadness that Frank Burla, founder of the Chicago Pipe Show, has passed.
Frank was the man behind the show and the CPCC.
Smoke a pipe in his honor."

 

[AroEnglish]

Really neat history; thanks for sharing this!

 

[Cappy]

That show's a bucket I'm still waiting to check off my list.

 

[georged]

This whole Chicago show thing is a communal willful self-delusion, and now Kevin is throwing fuel on the fire.

It's outrageous, and he should be ashamed of himself.

What next? "Photos and memories" of when everyone in the PipeWorld had yachts and private jets, a personal staff of Swedish models, and a walk-in locker of 50 year old Scotch and pre-revolution Cuban cigars?

No, don't believe this elaborate digital deception, pm.commers... an aircraft hangar-sized room filled with thousands upon thousands of high grade pipes? Room after room after room of a giant resort hotel filled with hundreds of knowledgeable, friendly people from all over the world? Restaurants and lounges everywhere? And nothing to do for DAYS but interact with all those things???

That's insane.

Sorry, it simply never happened. It's not real. It CAN'T be real...

 

[judcole]

That was dun, Kevin, thanks.

 

[admin]

Thank you for the article, Kevin.

On October 5, 2021, Tim Garrity from CPCC reported:

"It is with great sadness that Frank Burla, founder of the Chicago Pipe Show, has passed.
Frank was the man behind the show and the CPCC.
Smoke a pipe in his honor."

Oh no! I had no idea.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

dun

I think you meant to say "fun." Knowing what a good natured person you are, I assume you weren't going to say "dumb," ha ha. Especially to Kevin. Now, if you were talking to me, I would assume "dumb" ha ha.

 

[judcole]

I think you meant to say "fun." Knowing what a good natured person you are, I assume you weren't going to say "dumb," ha ha. Especially to Kevin. Now, if you were talking to me, I would assume "dumb" ha ha.

Yup, typo totally missed. Excrement occurs.