12/28/2023 0 Comments Tinderbox haverford hours![]() ![]() , 391 W Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, PA 19041. I've never visited a Tinder Box,but I sure as hell know what it's like to miss one. At Tinder Box, we will continue to enhance our position as the number one retailer of pipes, pipe tobaccos and cigars in America by utilizing these most basic retailing principles: Quality, Selection, Value and Friendly Service. I'm sure some french philosophy covers this, but its heartbreaking to hold the world as it was in one's memories and deal with the fact that those memories are the only proof of it's ever being real. It's a simple sentiment, but also a profound observation. ![]() ![]() Steve King said in the Dark Tower 'The world moves on'. Old Andy has probably been gone for twenty years. Sometimes I have to pull over and just wade through the memories that flood through me the way they sometimes do before I can continue on my way. Now when I find a reason to detour through the old home place and take in the sights, I see that old station boarded up. There was an old man named Andy that pumped it and always had a lollipop in his pocket for 6 year old me. Knowing what I know about Franchisee cost's and the wane in the pipe business through the eighties, it is understandable why independent cigar shops are now the norm.doesn't stop me from dreaming about the good old days though.ΔΆ3:04:54 GMT -5 PhantomWolf said:As kid we always stopped at the Gulf station on the way to town for random amounts of gas. I found out that the owner still had a Tinderbox in Chandler, and that is where the Arizona pipe club started meeting regularly after our initial meetup at Ye Old pipe shop in Phoenix.then that store went out of business. In 2014, I visited the tinderbox in Mesa on Southern Ave., bought a Joh's pipe and a couple pounds of Super Balkan II for about $22.00 a pound on their Wednesday pipe night.they had a group of pipe smokes that gathered on Wednesday's but I always had to be other places and never met up with them.then the store closed shortly after. In about 1982, I visited the Tinderbox in Mountain View at the San Antonio shopping center and bought a small figural turban headed meerschaum pipe and North Sea Tobacco.I thoroughly enjoyed in on my SF/LA/SD run.I wish the people in that store had taken more of a proactive approach in explaining other tobacco blends and more about pipes. In the late seventies, I would skip school and ride the bus to Towne East in Wichita, even though I didn't smoke a pipe, I loved looking at the pipes on display and sniffing the bulk blends. ![]()
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