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From The Cabin Coffee Table — An occasional look back at what the old Codgers saw and smoked (with a little detour and frolic, here and there):
I'm really enjoying these old ads. Thank you Columbo for posting these. After seeing the ads for "Old Briar" I find myself wanting to go visit old light houses and stare at them contemplatively while smoking a pipe.
Thank YOU (and all the others, too) for looking at them!
I'm honestly not sure how many are following along, and appreciate the feedback to gauge whether to continue.
We have hundreds and hundreds more in the pipeline. All sorts of good stuff.
Keep it up please. Much appreciated.Thank YOU (and all the others, too) for looking at them!
I'm honestly not sure how many are following along, and appreciate the feedback to gauge whether to continue.
We have hundreds and hundreds more in the pipeline. All sorts of good stuff.
Ran across this featuring spots for SWR on YooToob:
The first half is the only part about smoking, but it's fascinating. Watch the GTO spot, however, and see if you can figure out who the announcer is.
Nobody pronounced his Rs like Conrad for sure. He was all over TV in those days (ca. 1964), as the narrator of Bullwinkle, the intro and outro narrator of The Fugitive, as an actor on Have Gun -- Will Travel among others, and even directing: a ton of TV, including 77 Sunset Strip.Sounds like William Conrad.
I love how SWR seems to be as focused on pipe maintenance as the tobacco.
A fine, evocative post!From The Cabin Coffee Table — An occasional look back at what the old Codgers saw and smoked (with a little detour and frolic, here and there):
Aside from interesting messages, in some of these earlier Edgeworth ads evening radio programs and “The Corn Cob Pipe Club of Virginia”, network broadcast from the Edgeworth Factory, are mentioned.
One can picture all across America on those evenings in the early 1930s ... men quietly sitting in their living rooms and kitchens, perhaps huddled together with their families ... calmly puffing ... the tubes in their RCAs and Philcos and the Edgeworth in their cobs and briars all gently glowing orange ... the relaxing aroma of the tobacco ... enjoying comforting Southern spirituals and entertainment ... as men sang to them over the ether from far away places ...