Visiting America's Oldest Tobacco Shop: Iwan Ries in Chicago, IL
I didn't think this was going to be possible, but I was able to break-away from work a bit to drop by America's Oldest Tobacco Shop, which happens to be here in Chicago: Iwan Ries & Co. As if often the case in shops like this, they were accommodating a doofus with a camera... to a point. I picked up some tobacco that you'll see in a future video.
If you have a pipe smoking bucket list (And who doesn't?) I suggest adding Iwan Ries to it.
Visit: and if you get to Chicago be sure to visit Iwan Ries & Co. at 19 S. Wabash Avenue Chicago, IL 60603 and make sure to say Hey! to Mathew.
Iwan Ries of Chicago
Took a trip into the city today to one of the oldest tobacco shops in the country. I had a bunch more footage but I had problems with my camera today. You can check out a bunch more pictures and information on Iwan Ries here.
I will try to get more footage of their lounge next time I am there.
Part 1: USA Tobacco Shops
What USA tobacco shops have you been to???
Ernesto Perez-Carrillo speaking at Up Down Cigar in Chicago
EPC Garden Party at Up Down Cigar in Chicago is proud to present Ernesto Perez-Carrillo.
Chicago Travel: Humidor of Westmont
Traveling to the Windy City? The September/October 2013 issue of Cigar Snob included a guide to visiting (and, of course, smoking in) Chicago. One of the cigar destinations we included in that guide was Humidor of Westmont.
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Music: Kevin MacLeod
Hains Pipe and Cigar Shop
Jesus Castenon, Master blender, tobacconist and cigar roller
Chicago Travel: Up Down Cigar
Chicago's Up Down Cigar is — in the truest sense — a one-of-a-kind shop. And the store's general manager Phil explains in this video interview, practically everything in the space was designed by the owner specifically for the purposes of making the shop beautiful and keeping it functional. The result is a cigar experience that resembles nothing you've seen before.
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Music: Kevin MacLeod
Chicago Travel: Hubbard State Cigar
Don't be fooled by how small this shop is. There might only be a couple of chairs, and there's no back room, but owner Rhoda Bogardus is using every last inch of her 500 square-foot space to stock an impressive selection of cigars, from major brands to boutiques. She and the rest of the staff know their stuff, so you can be sure you'll leave with a great cigar. Rhoda recommends walking to the patios at O'Callahan's, Sullivan's, the Boss Bar and Erie Cafe to enjoy your cigar.
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Music: Kevin MacLeod
My visit to Low Country Pipe and Cigar
I was able to stop into Low Country Pipe and Cigar during our family vacation to Myrtle Beach, SC.
The store, staff, and the pipe tobacco selection are absolutely outstanding. I loved the welcoming, relaxed atmosphere of their lounge. I would like to give a special thanks to Hadassah Hallman for allowing me film in her store.
I HIGHLY recommend you stop in and visit if you’re in the area!! -John
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Chicago Travel: Casa de Montecristo
Mike and Sam Khalil of Casa de Montecristo are running one of the baddest shops in the country. Among the draws: their vintage room is an absolute treasure trove of expertly aged cigars. In this video, they talk about its beginnings and how they go about aging their cigars.
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Tabaco Y Ron Pa' Mi Santa
Written by Leslie Cartaya and Steve Roitstein
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Produced by Steve Roitstein
Leslie Cartaya: vocals; Philbert Armenteros: vocals & percussion; Ed Calle: Sax; Steve Roitstein, beats, keyboards & arrangement; Raymer Olalde: percussion
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Kramer's Pipe and Tobacco Shop, Beverly Hills - 1
UPDATE 11/17/17 Mrs. Kramer-Keller sent this mass email today:
To our Friends and Loyal Customers:
With saddened hearts, we want to let you know that, after 68 years in the same Beverly Hills location, our family owned business, Kramer's Pipe & Tobacco Shop, will be closing its doors December 31. It is bitter-sweet for Jim and me, but times change and we are looking forward.
We are forever grateful to the Glassell and the Tronstein families, our landlords for 65 years, their care and friendship meant the world to my parents and to us. They were an important part of building and preserving the village of Beverly Hills, which was referred to in a recent Beverly Hills Courier editorial, ending with Despite all the rhetoric, about Beverly Hills being a 'village', there is very little 'village' left.
Our decision was made, and made easier for us to accept, due to many factors:
1) CA state Tobacco Taxes (now 67% - which lumps together pipe tobacco & cigars with cigarettes. What other legal product do we tax so high?) causing people to buy out of state - over the internet. (It appears that marijuana will be taxed at a lower rate in CA come January!)
2) new pending FDA regulations which would make it nearly impossible for small shops to blend pipe tobacco,
3) both city and state restrictions/legislations – that, in our opinion, unfortunately have gone way overboard in their rulings regarding, again, a legal product,
4) the city deeming it necessary for construction purposes, and seemingly their only choice, to remove our on-street metered parking since the beginning of this year - turning Little Santa Monica into a virtual freeway - to the total dismay of small businesses lining our street,
and mostly 5) the end of our lease.
One saving grace is my father's 7 private house pipe tobacco blends (from the early 1950's) now having a new life (with our exact formulas and same blending tobaccos) on-line at smokingpipes.com under Kramer's Pipe and Tobacco. Sykes Wilford, Rick Newcombe, and Brian Levine - you gave my father's legacy a chance to live on.
Good-byes are too hard. I know we will see many of you. And we are keeping our website (kramerstobaccoshop.com), email (kramerstobaccoshop@prodigy.net), and our Facebook page (Kramers Pipe & Tobacco Shop) going.
Thank you from the depths of our hearts - and my parents' hearts - for your support and loyalty.
With a flood of warm memories of our neighbors, salespeople, customers, and friends throughout the years ~
Big Thanks,
Marsha Kramer Keller and Jim Keller
=============
Thanks to Mrs. Kramer Keller for her shop tour and for maintaining a tobacconist landmark!
Please post comments and video responses. Also, give us a tour of your local tobacconist.
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Trip to Tobacco Shop, enjoying a morning pipe.
Breaking in my new Savinelli churchwarden, enjoying the morning.
E.T.'s Tobacco Shop (60 second Commercial)
E.T.'s Tobacco Shop, located in North Dallas for all of your needs. Video created by Apex Video of Dallas.
A VISIT TO THE OLDEST PIPE SHOP IN MY TOWN! (probably the oldest pipe and cigar shop in my state!)
Another fun edition of Outings with Kel.
Godfather Cigars Fuente Event of November 2, 2018
Godfather Cigars, 461 Western Blvd., Jacksonville, NC Fuente Cigar Event of November 2, 2018
Kramer's Pipe and Tobacco Shop, Beverly Hills - 3
UPDATE 11/17/17 Mrs. Kramer-Keller sent this mass email today:
To our Friends and Loyal Customers:
With saddened hearts, we want to let you know that, after 68 years in the same Beverly Hills location, our family owned business, Kramer's Pipe & Tobacco Shop, will be closing its doors December 31. It is bitter-sweet for Jim and me, but times change and we are looking forward.
We are forever grateful to the Glassell and the Tronstein families, our landlords for 65 years, their care and friendship meant the world to my parents and to us. They were an important part of building and preserving the village of Beverly Hills, which was referred to in a recent Beverly Hills Courier editorial, ending with Despite all the rhetoric, about Beverly Hills being a 'village', there is very little 'village' left.
Our decision was made, and made easier for us to accept, due to many factors:
1) CA state Tobacco Taxes (now 67% - which lumps together pipe tobacco & cigars with cigarettes. What other legal product do we tax so high?) causing people to buy out of state - over the internet. (It appears that marijuana will be taxed at a lower rate in CA come January!)
2) new pending FDA regulations which would make it nearly impossible for small shops to blend pipe tobacco,
3) both city and state restrictions/legislations – that, in our opinion, unfortunately have gone way overboard in their rulings regarding, again, a legal product,
4) the city deeming it necessary for construction purposes, and seemingly their only choice, to remove our on-street metered parking since the beginning of this year - turning Little Santa Monica into a virtual freeway - to the total dismay of small businesses lining our street,
and mostly 5) the end of our lease.
One saving grace is my father's 7 private house pipe tobacco blends (from the early 1950's) now having a new life (with our exact formulas and same blending tobaccos) on-line at smokingpipes.com under Kramer's Pipe and Tobacco. Sykes Wilford, Rick Newcombe, and Brian Levine - you gave my father's legacy a chance to live on.
Good-byes are too hard. I know we will see many of you. And we are keeping our website (kramerstobaccoshop.com), email (kramerstobaccoshop@prodigy.net), and our Facebook page (Kramers Pipe & Tobacco Shop) going.
Thank you from the depths of our hearts - and my parents' hearts - for your support and loyalty.
With a flood of warm memories of our neighbors, salespeople, customers, and friends throughout the years ~
Big Thanks,
Marsha Kramer Keller and Jim Keller
=============
Thanks to Mrs. Kramer Keller for her shop tour and for maintaining a tobacconist landmark!
Please post comments and video responses. Also, give us a tour of your local tobacconist.
Teaser:
Part One:
Part Two:
Part Three:
Part Four:
The crop of Lohmar pipe tradeshow 2013
HI all of you,
welcome to the presentation of my four new pipes from the pipe tradeshow in Lohmar/Germany 2013, March 23nd. There are reallxy some beautiful pieces new in my collection and I am proud like a little baby- boy of his new toys on his bithday ;-)
Have fun while watching, take care and be well,
yours, the silverfox, David from Germany
My visit to The Briary Pipe and Tobacco Shop - Birmingham Alabama
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Pipe Smoking - Mission Pipe & Cigar Shop in Pleasanton, CA.
July 3rd - I took a visit to a nearby pipe and cigar shop in northern California. This is just a little shop tour.
Kramer's Pipe and Tobacco Shop, Beverly Hills - 4 (Reverse YABO and Endorsement)
UPDATE 11/17/17 Mrs. Kramer-Keller sent this mass email today:
To our Friends and Loyal Customers:
With saddened hearts, we want to let you know that, after 68 years in the same Beverly Hills location, our family owned business, Kramer's Pipe & Tobacco Shop, will be closing its doors December 31. It is bitter-sweet for Jim and me, but times change and we are looking forward.
We are forever grateful to the Glassell and the Tronstein families, our landlords for 65 years, their care and friendship meant the world to my parents and to us. They were an important part of building and preserving the village of Beverly Hills, which was referred to in a recent Beverly Hills Courier editorial, ending with Despite all the rhetoric, about Beverly Hills being a 'village', there is very little 'village' left.
Our decision was made, and made easier for us to accept, due to many factors:
1) CA state Tobacco Taxes (now 67% - which lumps together pipe tobacco & cigars with cigarettes. What other legal product do we tax so high?) causing people to buy out of state - over the internet. (It appears that marijuana will be taxed at a lower rate in CA come January!)
2) new pending FDA regulations which would make it nearly impossible for small shops to blend pipe tobacco,
3) both city and state restrictions/legislations – that, in our opinion, unfortunately have gone way overboard in their rulings regarding, again, a legal product,
4) the city deeming it necessary for construction purposes, and seemingly their only choice, to remove our on-street metered parking since the beginning of this year - turning Little Santa Monica into a virtual freeway - to the total dismay of small businesses lining our street,
and mostly 5) the end of our lease.
One saving grace is my father's 7 private house pipe tobacco blends (from the early 1950's) now having a new life (with our exact formulas and same blending tobaccos) on-line at smokingpipes.com under Kramer's Pipe and Tobacco. Sykes Wilford, Rick Newcombe, and Brian Levine - you gave my father's legacy a chance to live on.
Good-byes are too hard. I know we will see many of you. And we are keeping our website (kramerstobaccoshop.com), email (kramerstobaccoshop@prodigy.net), and our Facebook page (Kramers Pipe & Tobacco Shop) going.
Thank you from the depths of our hearts - and my parents' hearts - for your support and loyalty.
With a flood of warm memories of our neighbors, salespeople, customers, and friends throughout the years ~
Big Thanks,
Marsha Kramer Keller and Jim Keller
=============
Reverse YABO and surprise endorsement!
Thanks to Mrs. Kramer Keller for her shop tour and for maintaining a tobacconist landmark!
Please post comments and video responses. Also, give us a tour of your local tobacconist.
Teaser:
Part One:
Part Two:
Part Three:
Part Four: