Smoking at Disney

[sablebrush52]

Thanks for sharing this Jesse.
As always, it is enlightening.

I wanted to ask you some questions about your career a couple of weeks ago. I also was at the LVIPS and LOVED the Barlings you shared. It was GREAT collection at a great show. I mostly hung with the Pete Geek crew .

BUT each time I thought to come say hello, I looked and you were surrounded, just like the proverbial "prettiest girl at the dance" lol!
Lots of people there having a good time & I truly enjoyed watching you work the room ... or was the room trying to work you?

Regardless, I've so enjoyed reading your stories and pipe insights over the years and will look forward to maybe having a chance to visit with you at a future pipe show. Congrats again on retirement!

Back to topic at hand:
My eldest daughter & her husband just got back from their first trip to D'land a week ago. I have 4 kids and while they were growing up, we had 3 different trips planned and each time $omething occurred and we had to cancel, be it blown transm$$ion, or broken limb$ etc...
No worries, each but one has since made the journey & had fun at the so called "happiest place on earth" .
AND
ALL have commented on the PRICE of a trip there. Like you, I recall when it was sooo much more affordable, NOT 1955 prices but reasonable. Went to college in SoCal, and a visit to the D'land Hotel Grounds was a free & impressive date night to a midwestern farmer's daughter.
I sent 'em the link to the Smoking @Disneyland video and they were floored at how different the world is.
I just nod my head, stay quiet & enjoy my pipe.

All of them saw TRON & loved it many times while growing up because of how much I enjoyed that groundbreaking film when I was a young man. Terrific work you have done throughout all the many projects you have been part of . They also loved Something Wicked. Remarkable stuff...

be well...

Well...gosh!

If nothing bad happens between now and the next LVPS, feel free to pistol whip whoever is blocking you and say hello! I would have loved to have met you.

I was surprised by the amount of interest my little pile o' Barlings generated. Unfortunately, I had to pack up early so I could go to the Seattle Pipe Club dinner. As it turned out, there was further interest in seeing the Barlings, so I set up the display in my room for several showings and am supplying photographs to two carvers who want to try their hand at mixing their own style with what they responded to in the Barlings that they examined. Should prove interesting!

Again, thank you for your very, very kind words!!


J

 

[Nevaditude]

... and am supplying photographs to two carvers who want to try their hand at mixing their own style with what they responded to in the Barlings that they examined. Should prove interesting!

Indeed it shall. Will look to see what it leads to.

That Friday night opening with The Collector's Displays was quite remarkable ! There was you with your 'little pile o' Barlings' along with Dan' Chasin's 19 different Peterson Pipe SH "Squire" Collection. AND ending with Dave Peterson's selection of Charatan’s. It was a terrific way to kick off the show. AND it got even better! A GREAT Show! One might even say it was a veritable DISNEYLAND of pipes!

Thank for the reply.

 

[Nevaditude]

Not sure if this has ben posted before, but it's an interesting watch...

Thanks again for posting this. It is a terrific watch in so many ways. I was a history teacher & this look at what once was is fascinating to me. In fact, am going to look at photos in childhood albums for our trip to Disneyland in late 60's & look for evidence of smoking. EVERYONE in my family smoked except for us kids, and all of them took it up and then spent decades trying to give up cigarettes . Thankful I never went that route. Yet, I did pick up the pipe in earnest a few years before I retired from the classroom. I had a grandfather and an uncle who smoked a pipe and far preferred the pipe room note scent & the whole process of tending the flame. In fact, I even remember going into to the Tobacconist the evening of my Disneyland Grad Night in late 70's (yes,it was open) AND my CALIFORNIA high school even had a designated student smoking area! Remember those? Times certainly HAVE hanged!
LOL ok, I shall look for those photos too.

 

[Mike N]

Brian Levine, who hosts the PipesMagazine radio show, has an incredible collection of stamped Disney pipes which he often discusses. In fact, in retirement Brian has returned to Disney as a train operator.