Pipe Smoking Contest at Yale, 1959 (LIFE Magazine Photos)

[georged]

http://www.messynessychic.com/2016/12/14/big-pimping-at-yales-pipe-smoking-contest-1959/

 

[jndyer]

Very interesting.

 

[ashdigger]

"Horrible Hipster". Lol

 

[B18]

I Like the first picture with the giant bulldog. I wonder if it's functional, if so how much tobacco in weight goes in or how long does it take too smoke a full bowl.

 

[snagstangl]

"looking for a place to chuck" I don't think I have heard that about smoking contests.

 

[newbroom]

was getting a bit dizzy. I used my last pipe cleaner and was sickened by what it cleaned out of the stem of my pipe! I was swallowing this gook! I

Pipe smoking contest. Ready? Set? GO! Now, relax and enjoy the contest.

 

[lestrout]

Yo geo
Most bodacious find! I love the Owl Shop and some of its blends, although the store itself has 'modernized' from the old-timey pipe-centric hangout to a more hipster and cigar mode, complete with craft beers and trendy libations. This contest is an interesting bit of history, and I wonder if anyone knows how long Johnny's and others had been doing this. My own Christopher Morley's Pipe Club has the distinction of hosting the first formal slow smoking event sanctioned by the Comite International des Pipe Clubs back at the beginning of this century (lol - sounds like a long time, when phrased this way).
hp

les

 

[madox07]

Man ... smoking pipe for hours without stopping!? That is taking pipe smoking to a totally new meaning. I think the poor guy couldn't taste food properly for weeks after this adventure )))

 

[pagan]

Not too far off of the "What are you smoking" thread, just trying to figure which of these cat's is the younger @jimlinks :rofl:

 

[jpmcwjr]

My favorite photo of the lot! Note there's a woman in the group, when Yale was not yet co-ed. What an assortment of devices!

 

[papipeguy]

It's all in how you pack a pipe.

 

[lasttango]

I graduated from Yale in '01 and I frequented The Owl Shop... I remember seeing lots of old timers smoking pipes.
I grew up around Cornell University and many of my friends parents were professors at Cornell and Ithaca College ... I remember that many of them smoked pipes...
I used to play hockey as a kid and the dads would all be drinking their coffee and puffing away on their pipes... A wonderful aroma would fill the rink.

 

[lasttango]

My pop liked going to The Owl Shop... He told me the first time he went there he asked the guys to give him the "blend the Rowan Greer smokes." Greer was an Iconic Div School Prof... always had a pipe etc...
Cool post btw...

 

[ssjones]

The dude with the big Wellington looks like he knew what he was doing - and seemingly the only guy to bring a chick.

 

[gmjabsky]

Too cool

 

[jpmcwjr]

That dude with the Wellington is "the chick's" girl friend!! Well, he is pretty androgynous looking.....