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Username: Stinger4me
Post Number: 64
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 - 9:24 am: |    |
How many of you have any recollection of pipe shops in Detroit? At one time there were quite a few of them downtown. |
Krawlspace
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Username: Krawlspace
Post Number: 325
Registered: 04-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 - 5:53 pm: | |
Only Hill & Hill in the area now on Mack.
Just broke into my new batch of Hay Market.
mmmmmmmmmmm
Was a shop off of 10 and the Lodge, but they shut down a couple years ago...
(Message edited by krawlspace on October 03, 2007) |
Gazhekwe
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Username: Gazhekwe
Post Number: 729
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 - 6:02 pm: | |
Churchill's. |
Detroitnerd
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Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 1482
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 - 6:20 pm: | |
Does "The Station" count?
(Of course not. Heheheh.) |
Jnot
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Username: Jnot
Post Number: 10
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 - 6:38 pm: | |
plenty of gas stations will sell you loosies if you just ask... then again, maybe that's not what you're after |
Redvetred
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Username: Redvetred
Post Number: 54
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 - 6:48 pm: | |
Not in Detroit but there is a great tobacco shop located at the NE corner of Grange Hall Road and North Holly Road in Holly. The odor is unbelievable. Water pipes too. |
Pharmer_b
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Username: Pharmer_b
Post Number: 18
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 - 7:50 pm: | |
Eastland Mall had a shop called The Tinderbox in the seventies. |
Stinger4me
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Username: Stinger4me
Post Number: 65
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 - 8:21 pm: | |
In the 60's there were at least four pipe shops in downtown Detroit. LaFond's was on Cadillac Sq. just west of Bates. Watson's Pipe Shop was in the David Whitney Bldg. and there were a couple of others on Lafayette. A man named Lafond had a pipe repair shop on Broadway, I think it was in the same building as Lafayette Radio. He made pipes as well as doing repairs. There was a place out on Northwestern and it may have been, Humidor One. The man had an inventory of pipes which was astounding. |
Chitaku
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Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 1636
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 - 9:19 pm: | |
how about some head shops |
Thursdaynext
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Username: Thursdaynext
Post Number: 380
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 - 9:52 pm: | |
Malaga Briar Pipe, Co. off 11 Mile in Royal Oak. They were renowned for their oil-cured and very dry-smoking pipes. I had a friend who used to hand carve briar wood pipes for the shop, my favorite being a Knights head-armor. The shop made it through 3 generations, and if I remember correctly, it was set up by the grandfather who had come over from Malaga, Spain. They closed somewhere around 1998-2000. The grandson/owner turned into a bit of a hermit - he just sort of slowly withdrew from the business. |
Stinger4me
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Username: Stinger4me
Post Number: 66
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 - 9:57 pm: | |
I had some pipes from the shop and bought tobacco from them. The man I dealt with most of the time may have been the son of the owner, a gentleman with good sense. His sister worked there as well. Good pipes and a nice shop. When the owner died and the grandson took over, the place seemed to go into a tailspin and they never recovered. Supposedly made pipes for Bing Crosby. |
Ghetto_butterfly
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Username: Ghetto_butterfly
Post Number: 756
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 - 10:14 pm: | |
We recently discovered a good one in Hamtramck called simply "Smokers". Has a great selection of "pipes". The owner told us that he wants it to be a coffee shop style of business, but it was still a work in progress. |
Karl_jr
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Username: Karl_jr
Post Number: 92
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 - 11:03 pm: | |
Hey krawl, funny I'm just smoking my last bowl of haymarket right now! small world {or city}
jr tobacco on northwestern has a decent selection of tinned stuff and I also like their "baker street" english house mix. |
Citylover
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Username: Citylover
Post Number: 2668
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 - 11:19 pm: | |
The venerable Maison- Edwards is still going strong in Ann Arbor at the Nickels arcade. |
The_ed
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Username: The_ed
Post Number: 12
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - 12:37 pm: | |
I remember there was a place called Tobacco Road on Gratiot and one in Dearborn on Michigan Avenue. And the Monkey Boutique on Woodward. These places sold lots of pipes as did some vintage stores on Plum Street if you can go back that far. They didn't sell a lot of tobacco but they did sell a lot of pipes.............. |
The_rock
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Username: The_rock
Post Number: 1984
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - 2:35 pm: | |
For many years when the United Artist Building was flourishing, right on the lobby floor was Sigler's Smoke Shop. Very popular with the tenants as well as with the Gas Company/NBD employees on Bagley and guests of both the Tuller and Statler Hotels.
I went to Michigan with the owner's son, John. Surprisingly, John never picked up the smoking habit in the time I knew him. |
Ravine
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Username: Ravine
Post Number: 1410
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - 3:04 pm: | |
Haymarket, oh HELL YES, although Butternut was always my favorite. The Praline that seemingly-defunct Churchill's sold was always a treat, too. |
Lefty2
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Username: Lefty2
Post Number: 293
Registered: 07-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - 8:38 pm: | |
does the Groove Shoppe count? |