Interesting reads

[luckyace12]

This will drop you into the middle of a 618-page document that combines two of my great obsessions: cigars and the Edwardian period:

https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=LClLAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.RA6-PA33

How did you even find this?

 

[luckyace12]

The world's first all Nicaraguan cigar shop is now open, in Amsterdam. To commemorate this milestone, a beautiful book on the city of Estelí, its tobacco industry and main factories was also published under the same name: CIGARAGUA.

Did they ever post this for sale on the interwebs?

 

[blisscigarco]

How did you even find this?

There is tons of this ancient tobacco biz stuff out there on books.google. I forget the exact search that pulled up that one. Maybe "Porto Rico Whole Leaf Tobacco." "Porto Rico" gets you the old stuff because of the antique spelling.

 

[luckyace12]

I love the ads from the late 1800's early 1900's I dont know what it is about it. Maybe the glamour associated with tobacco back then.

 

[blisscigarco]

Did they ever post this for sale on the interwebs?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cigaragua-over-sigaren-mensen-maken/dp/9078668385

 

[blisscigarco]

I love the ads from the late 1800's early 1900's I dont know what it is about it. Maybe the glamour associated with tobacco back then.

Yeah, me too. From an innocent age when we had no clue that shit was killing our ass.

 

[blisscigarco]

I like to look up the addresses of these places on Google Earth and go down to Street View and see what's there now. For example, at 646 South Main in Dayton there is now a Good Will-Easter Seals. But back in the day they used to produce good old SWASTIKA-brand stogies:

https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=LClLAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.RA8-PA24

And I would sure like to know what was in that Havanarine....

 

[luckyace12]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cigaragua-over-sigaren-mensen-maken/dp/9078668385

Thanks!

 

[blisscigarco]

Great Oliva Tobacco H2K/Sumatra read.
http://www.cigaraficionado.com/webfeatures/show/id/17576/p/1
The only annoying thing is continually calling Habano 2K "Havana 2000."

 

[Marc L]

Right? did you hear about the trademark file on Connecticut tobacco leaf branding?

 

[blisscigarco]

Right? did you hear about the trademark file on Connecticut tobacco leaf branding?

No. You got a link?

 

[Mossome]

I like to look up the addresses of these places on Google Earth and go down to Street View and see what's there now. For example, at 646 South Main in Dayton there is now a Good Will-Easter Seals. But back in the day they used to produce good old SWASTIKA-brand stogies:

https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=LClLAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.RA8-PA24

And I would sure like to know what was in that Havanarine....

Until a few years ago, there was a Salvation Army shelter there and some weird shop that sold flags and banners. I've been by that place a million times in my life and never knew there used to be a cigar factory there. Weird.

 

[blisscigarco]

Until a few years ago, there was a Salvation Army shelter there and some weird shop that sold flags and banners. I've been by that place a million times in my life and never knew there used to be a cigar factory there. Weird.

Wow! That's cool/weird.

 

[Marc L]

No. You got a link?

didn't look it up but, here's the bla bla at 1h21m44s

 

[blisscigarco]

Twenty-year-old article about Topper and FX Smith. I read it and there are these hints of optimisim and "we're gonna need more leaf." I reckon that wasn't as much a problem as they imagined it would be, once 1998 came along....
http://www.smokemag.com/1297/feature.htm

 

[blisscigarco]

This FB post makes me feel frustrated!
https://www.facebook.com/TabaneroCigars/photos/a.148278385265994.33019.109639315796568/1291983517562136/?type=3&theater

 

[Marc L]

This won't help then.

https://www.facebook.com/TabaneroCigars/posts/1292120220881799

 

[blisscigarco]

This won't help then.

https://www.facebook.com/TabaneroCigars/posts/1292120220881799

Yeah, that just pisses me off.

 

[webmost]

This won't help then.

https://www.facebook.com/TabaneroCigars/posts/1292120220881799

Thanks for not helping.

 

[Marc L]

Can I get some straight talk please? .. tell me y'all are kidding.