What your Dad, Grandpa, or Uncle smoked

[gboyet93]

I have been smoking a pipe now for about 8 months, and as more time passes by, I am able to try and enjoy many different tobacco's. My uncle smoked a pipe for 60 plus years, but never smoked anything other than Half and Half and Prince Albert to my knowledge. He passed away at 93, and I catch myself wishing that we could have smoked together, and I could have introduced him to other tobacco. I honestly believe he would have liked 1792, FVF, Braken Flake, etc. Do any of you ever wish you could have introduced a passed family member to something different?

[Arizona]

I know my great grandfather smoked a pipe. He was a farmer in Quincy, Illinois til his death in 1954. I dont know what blend he smoked but I've got a pic someplace of him in his bib overalls with pipe in his teeth.

[gboyet93]

Originally Posted by Arizona

I know my great grandfather smoked a pipe. He was a farmer in Quincy, Illinois til his death in 1954. I dont know what blend he smoked but I've got a pic someplace of him in his bib overalls with pipe in his teeth.

What would you have packed into his pipe?

[KevinV]

My Dad smoked Sir Walter Raleigh and sometimes mixed it up with Mixture 79. I don't know what my grandfathers smoked.

[teedles915]

Normally I lurk around the the cigar area but I saw this post and had to jump in. My grandpa was a pipe smoker. He was a Prince Albert man. After he passed I got all of his pipes along with his holder and tobacco jar. They sit right next to my humidor. I've never been a pipe smoker but I wish he was around I'd love for him to teach me. I've thought many time about firing one of his pipes up as a tribute, but I would have no clue where to start they, have been sitting for 12 years.

Thanks for the post and the memories.

[gboyet93]

Originally Posted by teedles915

Normally I lurk around the the cigar area but I saw this post and had to jump in. My grandpa was a pipe smoker. He was a Prince Albert man. After he passed I got all of his pipes along with his holder and tobacco jar. They sit right next to my humidor. I've never been a pipe smoker but I wish he was around I'd love for him to teach me. I've thought many time about firing one of his pipes up as a tribute, but I would have no clue where to start they, have been sitting for 12 years.

Thanks for the post and the memories.

Personally, I can't think of a better way you could honor him. If he was anything like my uncle, after a few laughs, and some choice words he would have enjoyed the teaching moment.

[Mad Hatter]

My great-grandpa smoked H&H, Velvet, Kentucky Club, SWR, sometimes Captain Black and Roitan cigars. Grandfather on the other side of the family smoked PA.

[DSturg369]

My Dad smoked a pipe while in Korea and Vietnam, but I have no idea what brand/blend he smoked.

[drastic_quench]

I don't know, but very likely it was one of the common drug store varieties.

Say I'm condescending, but I feel sorry for the old timers who only had the (to put it politely) unspectacular tobacco available to them - and didn't even know there were great blends worth seeking out. Depending on where you lived, you might have never seen (or heard of) a tin of Dunhill tobacco back in the day.

Truly, with the info on the net and online shopping, we are living in a golden age of pipe tobacco. Damn shame that NO ONE seems to smoke pipes anymore. This group is definitely the exception when you think about how overwhelmingly common pipe smoking was fifty years ago.

[Sovereign]

No one in my family smoked pipes. The ones who did smoke were into cigarettes

[SmokinJohnny]

My dad smoked cigs along with many relatives. I don't recall any relatives who smoked pipes. A co-worker of my dad who visited frequently chain smoked a pipe as they talked and laughed. I don't remember what he smoked but I loved the aroma. I was intrigued by the act of pipe smoking as well. My dad never took up pipe smoking because he didn't like the taste. It's likely he assumed all tobaccos are alike, tried one or two drug store blends (that maybe his friend smoked) that didn't go over well, and stopped there.

[scottw]

Well, the only thing we smoke out of a pipe is weed, no tobacco. Love the cigars though and one day will venture out and get a real pipe and some baccy to enjoy. I am becoming increasingly curious about the pipe.

[gboyet93]

Originally Posted by drastic_quench

I don't know, but very likely it was one of the common drug store varieties.

Say I'm condescending, but I feel sorry for the old timers who only had the (to put it politely) unspectacular tobacco available to them - and didn't even know there were great blends worth seeking out. Depending on where you lived, you might have never seen (or heard of) a tin of Dunhill tobacco back in the day.

Truly, with the info on the net and online shopping, we are living in a golden age of pipe tobacco. Damn shame that NO ONE seems to smoke pipes anymore. This group is definitely the exception when you think about how overwhelmingly common pipe smoking was fifty years ago.

I understand exactly what you are saying. Smoking a pipe has become less common, just like real men have become less common. I look back, and honestly remember thinking, I want to do/be that one day. It was always a joke that my uncle was either cleaning his pipe, smoking his pipe, or packing his pipe. Other men would come over, sit around the coffee table, talk religion, politics, and women, all under a cloud of pipe smoke. What I would give now to be one of those men at that table. I was just a kid at the time, but the memories are just as clear as my thoughts today.

[dmkerr]

My dad smoked and still smokes a pipe but has no brand loyalty. As a kid, I found empty cans of Edgeworth, Carter Hall, Sir Walter Raleigh, Prince Albert, Half & Half and a few others I can't recall. Now he smokes the cheap stuff in a bag from the drugstore... sometimes cherry blend, sometimes amaretto, sometimes black cavendish, etc etc.

Then again, I have 20 or so favorites, too!

Grandfather smoked Salem cigarettes for about 60 years and developed emphysema. Father has smoked a pipe for about that same amount of time and has no attendant ailments he's aware of.

[ZedR2]

My Grandfather was a prominent businessman and started out as a licensed auto mechanic and then he owned his own garage and then a Hupmobile Dealership ( yes this goes back to the 1930's as I am 56 years old )

He smoked a pipe and his favorite brand of cigars were El Producto , I can remember as a kid he would take the bands off of each cigar and place them under the glass of the coffee table and any surface in the house that could hold them , he also had them glued to all the surfaces in his office, wall to wall El Producto cigar bands is what his customers saw , well the local paper did a story about him and his favorite El Producto cigars and the word got out to El Producto and they payed him a visit to his store and surprisingly El Producto gave him 'Free Cigars For Life' , he never had to buy another one !
He lived to be in his 80's but died in an auto accident , he also smoked around 8 cigars a day ..

Here is a pic of my Grandfather taken around the mid 1960's

Thanks for Looking & Listening !