TheSmokeamater
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I mentioned on another thread a few weeks ago that I have been thinking of purchasing some old dried up crusty pouches of Edgeworth Ready Rubbed from the bodega down the street, and re-hydrating them.
Some of you fine gentlemen convinced me it would not be worth the effort. Good advise fellas! Thank you!
Today while on a shopping errand for work I saw a crude little hand painted sign on the front door of a real estate office that read "Smoke Shop". I opened the door to the real estate place and off to the side there's another door with another sign that said "Smoke Shop". I open that door and there's a long dark hallway with mirror on the floor set at set at 45 degrees. (If this sounds weird that's because it WAS weird!)
I walk in and there's a guy in his late 70's sitting in a half empty 15' x 25' shop with no windows. On the wall he has three big Dr. Grabow & Medico pipe display cards, many bags of Smoker's Choice tobacco, a few glass display cases filled with cheapo knives and bongs, some glass display cases full of cigars, and the usual cigarettes behind the counter. I was wondering, how in the world this guy can make a living in a store like this? And that the rent must be next to nothing. I asked him for a pouch of PA, looked like the only decent thing he had there. He seem surprised and struck up a conversation with me about how there are "none of us [pipe smokers] left anymore." "It's dead", he said. I tried to tell him there are places like this site where the hobby is alive and well, but he made a stinky face and shook his head, negative. I let it go. Who could blame him? He waved his hand at the Doc Grabow displays and said, "this whole wall was pipes." We talked a few minutes more and I noticed the can of ERR behind him. "I said, I'll take that." He said "It's a classic. They don't make that anymore." "I know", I replied.
Fifty bucks.... I really had no business buying it. I don't know if I over paid. But I wanted it. What the hell? Right?!
It's sealed. Makes no shaky noise, and is slightly bulging.
Some of you fine gentlemen convinced me it would not be worth the effort. Good advise fellas! Thank you!
Today while on a shopping errand for work I saw a crude little hand painted sign on the front door of a real estate office that read "Smoke Shop". I opened the door to the real estate place and off to the side there's another door with another sign that said "Smoke Shop". I open that door and there's a long dark hallway with mirror on the floor set at set at 45 degrees. (If this sounds weird that's because it WAS weird!)
I walk in and there's a guy in his late 70's sitting in a half empty 15' x 25' shop with no windows. On the wall he has three big Dr. Grabow & Medico pipe display cards, many bags of Smoker's Choice tobacco, a few glass display cases filled with cheapo knives and bongs, some glass display cases full of cigars, and the usual cigarettes behind the counter. I was wondering, how in the world this guy can make a living in a store like this? And that the rent must be next to nothing. I asked him for a pouch of PA, looked like the only decent thing he had there. He seem surprised and struck up a conversation with me about how there are "none of us [pipe smokers] left anymore." "It's dead", he said. I tried to tell him there are places like this site where the hobby is alive and well, but he made a stinky face and shook his head, negative. I let it go. Who could blame him? He waved his hand at the Doc Grabow displays and said, "this whole wall was pipes." We talked a few minutes more and I noticed the can of ERR behind him. "I said, I'll take that." He said "It's a classic. They don't make that anymore." "I know", I replied.
Fifty bucks.... I really had no business buying it. I don't know if I over paid. But I wanted it. What the hell? Right?!
It's sealed. Makes no shaky noise, and is slightly bulging.
