Smoking Pipes Location, Geographic and Architectural

[mso489]

Could someone fill me in a little on smoking pipes.com's location and what their establishment looks like? I've been buying pipes and tobacco from them for eight or ten years or more. They bought a pipe to a show to save me shipping, on spec. They are the masters of customer service, and I've used their trade-in feature for store credit on at least two occasions. I "know" they are somewhere in South Carolina near Myrtle Beach, but I can't locate exactly where, how far from the big tourist center. I have visualized them somewhere in the low country, where the cost of real estate is reasonable and the surroundings are somewhat rural, but that's my fantasy life. Can someone fill me on on SP as a real place with a real footprint?

 

[cosmicfolklore]

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Actually, I see two addresses on their website.
Here is the 550 Highway 9 East, Longs, SC 29568 address..


and their website lists this as another...
" Our Little River, SC showroom, Low Country Pipe & Cigar, "

 

[mso489]

Cosmic, yes, yes, that's what I always imagined! I mean the castle. Ah, but an actual photo. Looks like they could sell me another pipe in a nanosecond. If Iwan Ries didn't get to me first.

 

[stokesdale]

Could someone fill me in a little on smoking pipes.com's location and what their establishment looks like? I've been buying pipes and tobacco from them for eight or ten years or more. They bought a pipe to a show to save me shipping, on spec. They are the masters of customer service, and I've used their trade-in feature for store credit on at least two occasions. I "know" they are somewhere in South Carolina near Myrtle Beach, but I can't locate exactly where, how far from the big tourist center. I have visualized them somewhere in the low country, where the cost of real estate is reasonable and the surroundings are somewhat rural, but that's my fantasy life. Can someone fill me on on SP as a real place with a real footprint?

The "low country" includes pretty much all of east central and southeast SC. It really depends where in the low country you have your real estate whether it's expensive or not. My wife and I own a house on the coast near Charleston...and even though we bought it when real estate prices were still low because of the real estate crash, we still paid upwards of $300/foot for it. Long's SC, where SP is located (or so they say) I don't think is considered the Low Country as it is in the northern coast of SC.

 

[mso489]

Referring to my only slightly outdated 2012 Rand McNally, they are out in the country and up near the N.C. line, I'd guess about 25 miles from Myrtle Beach.

 

[stokesdale]

Referring to my only slightly outdated 2012 Rand McNally, they are out in the country and up near the N.C. line, I'd guess about 25 miles from Myrtle Beach.

Ahh, okay, that's not considered the Low Country...to those in the Low Country, that area is considered another planet.

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

Ahh, okay, that's not considered the Low Country...to those in the Low Country, that area is considered another planet.

Originally from Moncks Corner, can confirm

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I keep looking for another address... are the two I posted not their stores?

 

[stokesdale]

Originally from Moncks Corner, can confirm

Something tells me you’re right, but I want to think that was where C&D was before joining SP...but I’m not sure

 

[stokesdale]

I keep looking for another address... are the two I posted not their stores?

You’re right for their current location

 

[Spinkle]

" Our Little River, SC showroom, Low Country Pipe & Cigar, "
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This must be the former "house of ill repute" that I remember Sykes Wylford talking about from the interview on the PM podcast a while back.

 

[jpberg]

Something tells me you’re right, but I want to think that was where C&D was before joining SP...but I’m not sure

C&D was in Morgantown before Sykes bought it. Before that it was in PA, where it transformed from Atlas Tobacco to what Craig and Patty made it.

 

[jpberg]

The Latest Details

C and D Tobacco

www.cornellanddiehl.com

 

[FurCoat]

Longs, SC. Been there on many occasions.

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

Something tells me you’re right, but I want to think that was where C&D was before joining SP...but I’m not sure

They were in Morganton , NC before moving to their curret location

 

[mso489]

I started ordering C&D blends when they were in Morganton, and coincidentally, my wife did a freelance writing assignment near there (free range hog farms as a food writing story). Morganton is not a large town, but when I asked people the whereabouts of C&D, they had no idea, so it was low profile locally. Their magic with burley blends, using burley as a base and as a condiment, really took hold of me, and still has. Sadly, some of the North Carolina staff couldn't relocate to S.C. (so it seems), but Jeremy Reeves has been a good steward of the brand and its blends from my point of view.

 

[mso489]

stokesdale, I took the Laudisi brand of blends, Low Country, too literally. People are sensitive about locality, and so rightly. When my sister moved out of Chicago proper to a suburb, the newspaper where she wrote a regular column would no longer call her a Chicago writer with her byline. They kept the column, but she was now in the Chicago area. Low country people are proud of their region, its food and its ways, and if you are not part of that, you are not in Low Country, and good for them. But SP is pipe heaven, for those in the know about that.

 

[kcghost]

This thread has become tortured do to the many iterations of "where's it at" despite being told where it is.