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[clynch]

Welcome from Florida.

 

[Latakia Dave]

Hello All. Rich Beaudet here. I'm 72 and still smoking a pipe but have to say I tend more towards cigars these days. I bought my first pipe at the age of 16 after pestering the people at the pipe shop across from my job at the drugstore in Attleboro, MA for a long time. They patiently taught me a lot about pipes, tobaccos, and how to smoke. I have a nice collection of briars, meerschaums, corncobs, and cherry wood in all maner of shapes. Some of my pipes are over 50 years old and I do enjoy just looking at them. I espcially enjoy smoking my Stanwell Danish bent, my Dr. Grabow Canadian, and a beauty of a carved meershaum with a large bowl with and egyptian princess with a crown of cobras. My tastes in tobacco tend toward Scottish blends and the like. Not fond of 'flavored' tobacco. Eager to greet you all and chew the fat.

Welcome from Virginia!

 

[troutface]

Sigh. The grandeur we east-coasters dream about.

I was born and raised on the Jersey shore, but 33 years ago decided to take advantage of that grandeur. Never looked back.

 

[Irish Piper]

Welcome from Bavaria!

 

[Rich Beaudet]

Welcome from Bavaria!

Germany!?

 

[kcghost]

Welcome from KC!!

 

[Dr. P]

Welcome from Bakersfield, California.

 

[Irish Piper]

Germany!?

Yes.

 

[Salvaje]

Welcome from Florida.

Welcome from NC

 

[John C.]

Welcome from Rhode Island.

 

[dunnyboy]

Welcome from NYC Rich @Rich Beaudet. You and I are on the same timetable: I'll be 72 in June and began pipe smoking at 18.

 

[scout19d3]

Howdy & welcome @Rich Beaudet , from Katy, TX, USA

 

[Rich Beaudet]

Welcome from NYC Rich @Rich Beaudet. You and I are on the same timetable: I'll be 72 in June and began pipe smoking at 18.

Thanks Dunnyboy. Is there some Irish or Scottish in your background? Is NYC still tolerant of pipesmoking, indoors or out?
I have taken many a day trip to NYC for museum tours, photography jaunts, restaurants (Bourdain's Les Halles a strong favorite, and Chinatown), etc. Even though my little village of Albion, RI has only 917 souls, I still love NY and all its cosmopolitan grandeur.

 

[dunnyboy]

@Rich Beaudet, there is no Irish or Scottish in my background. There is a wee dram of scotch now and then. Unfortunately, NYC is not hospitable to smoking. You can't smoke indoors anywhere but in the increasingly rare cigar store You can't smoke in the parks anymore. You can smoke on the street but the only smoke you see and smell is marijuana. The city is coming back to life: the museums, art galleries and restaurants are bustling.

 

[Rich Beaudet]

Howdy & welcome @Rich Beaudet , from Katy, TX, USA

A pipe smoker from Texas? Shouldn't you be rolling your own with one hand while your horse?

 

[Rich Beaudet]

@Rich Beaudet, there is no Irish or Scottish in my background. There is a wee dram of scotch now and then. Unfortunately, NYC is not hospitable to smoking. You can't smoke indoors anywhere but in the increasingly rare cigar store You can't smoke in the parks anymore. You can smoke on the street but the only smoke you see and smell is marijuana. The city is coming back to life: the museums, art galleries and restaurants are bustling.

Thanks for the update. So what happened at 18 to bring you to pick up a pipe? Somebody in your family already a smoker?

 

[dunnyboy]

Thanks for the update. So what happened at 18 to bring you to pick up a pipe? Somebody in your family already a smoker?

A friend in college—a medical student no less!—was smoking a pipe while he studied. It just struck as very professorial and cool. So I bought a basket pipe and smoked drugstore tobacco in it occasionally until I was in my mid twenties and moved to NYC. I had a mentor who smoked pipes. That and the beautiful pipes in the Dunhill store got me back into it. I guess I'm easily influenced by my elders LOL. How did you start?

 

[Jacob74]

Welcome Rich!

 

[Rich Beaudet]

A friend in college—a medical student no less!—was smoking a pipe while he studied. It just struck as very professorial and cool. So I bought a basket pipe and smoked drugstore tobacco in it occasionally until I was in my mid twenties and moved to NYC. I had a mentor who smoked pipes. That and the beautiful pipes in the Dunhill store got me back into it. I guess I'm easily influenced by my elders LOL. How did you start?

I was a stock boy in my cousin's drugstore. I would take some of my lunch time to visit a pipe store across the street and was struk by the beauty of some of them. I pumped the 2 guys who ran the place for everything about the pipes, how to smoke them, the tobaccos and fell in love with the mystique of it all. I bought books on the history of pipesmoking, the sourcing and manufacture of the tobaccos, how pipes are made; you name it. I have enjoyed it ever since, trying different tobaccos until settling on mostly English or Scottish blends with the exotic orientals.

 

[mso489]

Welcome aboard from central North Carolina. My dad's mom grew up in Holyoke, Mass. She was a raconteur and told the best family stories.