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Post by puffy on Dec 21, 2020 22:17:00 GMT -5
For me 2 come to mind.One was my grand father.The other was retired from the navy.I only knew him as old man Bell.I was only about 10 years old at the time.I probably wouldn't remember him except for a big wooden Calabash that he smoked..Anyone remember the first pipe smoker you ever saw?
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Post by sparks on Dec 21, 2020 22:24:19 GMT -5
I had the good fortune of a few. My Uncle, his neighbor across the street, and my Grandfather. My Uncle and Grandfather were prolific pipe smokers, though I recall my Grandfather puffing on a cigar here and there.
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Post by username on Dec 21, 2020 22:30:40 GMT -5
My uncle Ricky always smoked a pipe. I tend to belive his smoke of choice was a cherry blend of some sort I can’t recall the name Middleton I believe. I never asked and then we grew far apart him in Northern California up near the Oregon border and us being in Morgan hill before moving to Az. I was fourtuite to receive one of his cobs. We didn’t know what happened to his briar pipes since his death but I still smoke the few cobs I have from his estate. I wish I had a better grasp of what blends where his favorite. I assume it was a popular cherry blend becouse when I received his pipes they were loaded and ready to Be smoked the next day. Unfortunately he died before he could smoke then kinda deal. So I figured well might as welll smoke it. And it definitely felt like a cherry otc.
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Post by Ronv69 on Dec 21, 2020 22:36:21 GMT -5
My father.
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Post by trailboss on Dec 21, 2020 23:05:28 GMT -5
My grandpa on the left, holding his pipe. He was born in 1889, and saw a lot of history over the thousands of bowls he smoked.  |
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Post by jay on Dec 21, 2020 23:16:38 GMT -5
It was my dad. He was a college professor (I know, how stereotypical), and some of his graduate students were pipe smokers.
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Post by exbenedict on Dec 22, 2020 0:10:31 GMT -5
Grandfather, and now me. That's about it on a regular basis. Every other male in the family dips (I hate the stuff).
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Post by taiguy66 on Dec 22, 2020 3:26:14 GMT -5
Santa.
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Post by Legend Lover on Dec 22, 2020 3:32:10 GMT -5
The man who lived behind my parents' house. He was called Mr Scott. I loved the smell of the pipe smoke. I'm still yet to figure out what it was. I think it was the older version of condor.
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Post by CrustyCat on Dec 22, 2020 7:34:06 GMT -5
My grandfather and Uncle were the only two that I remember. Some sort of cherry blend back in the '70s.
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Post by just ol ed on Dec 22, 2020 9:25:51 GMT -5
my Mom's brother, I was around 10 when first remember, in Memphis during visit. Mostly a calabash shape meer, no idea the baccy. No "pass it forward" as I didn't start on the pipe till 22
Ed Duncan,Batavia, NY
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Post by Goldbrick on Dec 22, 2020 16:29:39 GMT -5
I must have been around three or four; the barber that gave me my first real "big man" hair-cut smoked a pipe...he was a really nice man. I remember his tobacco came from a red can on the shelf behind his chair, likely P.A., but it could have been Union Leader ,or Velvet, but I remember my Mother always remarked about the wonderful aroma.
He had a built up shoe, as one leg was a good four inches shorter than the other, and even now I wonder at how cheerful he could be ,at a job where he had to stand all day...today we would complain of such a thing, but back in those days ,one would be glad for the chance to stand in spite of the handicap.
he made a big impression ,because I can still see his little Kaywoodie pipe and the nice smelling clouds of smoke coming from the bowl, and that had to be 1957 or 58.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Dec 22, 2020 17:50:46 GMT -5
 The Carpenter who built our house, I was 5 and Mr Coon would smoke, cut wood, hammer smoking then put his pipe still smoking in his bib pocket of his overalls, fascinated I looked to see it catch on fire, it never did.
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Post by zambini on Dec 22, 2020 20:24:27 GMT -5
Probably Popeye.
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Post by Yohanan on Dec 22, 2020 21:17:51 GMT -5
My Father would be the first, and then the neighbors, strangers on the street, Lots of folks smoked pipes, cigars, cigarettes, chewed tobacco, and dipped snuff in the time and era when I was younger. It was as common as eating eggs for Breakfast, alas no more.
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Post by Legend Lover on Dec 23, 2020 4:15:07 GMT -5
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Post by Spartacus on Dec 23, 2020 8:28:50 GMT -5
My Grandfather. He was a big cigar smoker for years and an occasional pipe. I remember his pipes sitting in his work bench. I think they got thrown out after he passed. He quit cigars and pipes when he was about 75 and lived 15 more active years.
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Post by mrlunting on Dec 23, 2020 11:38:39 GMT -5
Me, every time I have a pipe in front of a mirror. I am the first in my family to smoke a pipe. No pictures or stories of anyone before me. So the first pipe smoker for me would have to be Jimmy Stewart or Bing Crosby.
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Post by Goldbrick on Dec 23, 2020 12:31:46 GMT -5
Yep, him too, but when's the last time you smoked a bowl of spinach   ? |
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Post by zambini on Dec 23, 2020 15:33:05 GMT -5
Yep, him too, but when's the last time you smoked a bowl of spinach ? I did have Popeye-brand spinach in my lasagna last Sunday, does that count? |
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Post by Goldbrick on Dec 23, 2020 16:43:13 GMT -5
That Popeye spinach is good stuff. much the same as you, I'll be having mine baked in the cheese filling of some stuffed shells...it just wont stay lit in a pipe.
Ole Popeye wasn't just one of the first pipe smokers I ever saw, he was also the first spinach lover...shiver me timbers!!!
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Post by Legend Lover on Dec 24, 2020 4:57:58 GMT -5
My Grandfather. He was a big cigar smoker for years and an occasional pipe. I remember his pipes sitting in his work bench. I think they got thrown out after he passed. He quit cigars and pipes when he was about 75 and lived 15 more active years. Did he smoke big cigars? |
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Post by Gypo on Dec 24, 2020 8:04:03 GMT -5
The first pipe smoker was an old man named Shorty. Don't know what he smoked WWII vet. I do remember he favored a nimrod lighter. Sometimes there would be a lug box of vegatables he would leave on the back porch for us. Used to buy 3 cords of wood from me every year. He and his wife have been gone a long time now.
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Post by calabash on Dec 24, 2020 8:09:02 GMT -5
My grandfather. I think he smoked Walter Raleigh.
My dad only smoked Winstons.
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Post by Scott W on Dec 27, 2020 19:15:36 GMT -5
The man who lived behind my parents' house. He was called Mr Scott. I loved the smell of the pipe smoke. I'm still yet to figure out what it was. I think it was the older version of condor. I have some 12 year old Condor if you ever want a pouch buddy |
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Post by adui on Dec 27, 2020 21:43:33 GMT -5
The first pipe smoker in my memory is my dad. I'm fairly sure my grandfather also smoked a pipe at some point but I don't ever recall seeing it. Being a Navy family we didn't get to see grandma and grandpa more than once or twice a year.
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Post by Legend Lover on Dec 28, 2020 4:01:30 GMT -5
The man who lived behind my parents' house. He was called Mr Scott. I loved the smell of the pipe smoke. I'm still yet to figure out what it was. I think it was the older version of condor. I have some 12 year old Condor if you ever want a pouch buddy You're too kind, brother. I'm not particularly fussed on the new stuff, so I'd be afraid it might be wasted on me. That's one for YOU to enjoy. |
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Post by simnettpratt on Dec 28, 2020 4:51:00 GMT -5
My maternal grandfather, Tide. I only got to know him after he was in a nursing home (which he loved, btw), and we'd take him out every week for a picnic or a drive.
He had been a signalman in WWI and been gassed and seen some sh!t; definitely had PTSD the rest of his life. He only got minimum wage labor type jobs, and was randomly violent, and would get fired when he hit his boss. While he never hit my mom or the other kids, he also never addressed them directly, but would yell at Nana. They were afraid of the sound of his keys in the door.
The only time they felt safe was when he was staring into the fire, smoking his one (cheap) pipe, with his only (cheap) rope tobacco. His index finger was black from using it as a tamper.
It was long after he died that my mom realized what he was thinking about when he was gazing at the fire, and she wishes they had been nicer to him.
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Post by Ronv69 on Dec 28, 2020 10:28:47 GMT -5
My maternal grandfather, Tide. I only got to know him after he was in a nursing home (which he loved, btw), and we'd take him out every week for a picnic or a drive. He had been a signalman in WWI and been gassed and seen some sh!t; definitely had PTSD the rest of his life. He only got minimum wage labor type jobs, and was randomly violent, and would get fired when he hit his boss. While he never hit my mom or the other kids, he also never addressed them directly, but would yell at Nana. They were afraid of the sound of his keys in the door. The only time they felt safe was when he was staring into the fire, smoking his one (cheap) pipe, with his only (cheap) rope tobacco. His index finger was black from using it as a tamper. It was long after he died that my mom realized what he was thinking about when he was gazing at the fire, and she wishes they had been nicer to him. He must have had a terrible time if the nursing home was an improvement. |
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The Carpenter who built our house, I was 5 and Mr Coon would smoke, cut wood, hammer smoking then put his pipe still smoking in his bib pocket of his overalls, fascinated I looked to see it catch on fire, it never did.
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