Dr. Grabow Pipes

drbridges · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject: Dr. Grabow Smoked A Pipe

And he didn't die until he was 97.

LokoMac8 · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 5:39 pm Post subject: . . . and

. . . his favorite tobacco was Prince Albert Cherry. Always looking for a better cherry and wanting a true "Dr. Grabow" experience, I tried to find that. The closest I came was Prince Albert Cherry/Vanilla. I was told they "no longer" offered s straight cherry. --RJ--

GrabowGuy · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:08 pm Post subject:

PA Cherry Vanilla is aweful.
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drbridges · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:54 pm Post subject:

It couldn't be as bad as "Dead Man's" blend.

LokoMac8 · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:30 pm Post subject:

Texhealer · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:07 pm Post subject: Re: Dr. Grabow Smoked A Pipe

drbridges · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 3:04 pm Post subject: John Wesley Hardin Smoked a Pipe

This story reminds me of an event during a canoe adventure my brother and I took down the Frio River on a flood. We had just portaged a low crossing. I lit my cob pipe before we set downstream above some rapids. We got crooked and tumped. When I came up out of the flood, I had only the stem of my pipe still clenched in my teeth. I blew out a stream of river water like a fountain. Never found the bowl.

Excerpted from "Gunfighter, The Autobiography of John Wesley Hardin"

At that time I was in the habit of smoking a pipe, and we all took the smoking car, not knowing that I was soon to be attacked. ... I kept smoking my meerschaum pipe. In a minute the sheriff and a deputy (neither of whom would weigh one hundred seventy or one hundred eighty pounds) came in at the door behind me and grabbed me, saying, "Surrender! Hold up your hands." ...

They had me on my back, two or three men clinging to each arm, some on my breast, and others trying to catch my legs, which I was using with a vim. Once in a while they would hit me over the head with a six-shooter as the unequal fight went on. I would not surrender, or keep still, I swore I would never surrender at the point of a pistol, and I was not going to do it now. At this time Armstrong rushed into the smoker with a drawn revolver and put it to my head and told me if I did not surrender he would blow my brains out. I said, "Blow away. You will never blow a more innocent man's out, or one that will care less."

Someone else was trying to strike me over the head with a revolver when Armstrong called out, "Men, we have him now; don't hurt him; he is too brave to kill, and the first man that shoots him I'll kill him."

They finally bound me with my hands behind my back with a big cable, and then tied me to the seat of the car. I still had the stem of my pipe in my mouth and someone picked up the bowl, filled it, lit it, and gave it to me to smoke.

Gig · Duke & Westbrook Man Joined: 04 Jul 2008 Posts: 240

Strong man to live to 97 years old though I dont think that will ever happen to me but I dont think i would lie to either. We can live for too long Smile

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gillywalker · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:02 pm Post subject:

Grabow was 97? Good God! I wonder if he left the filter in his pipe. Wink

drbridges · Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:27 am Post subject:

The real Dr. Grabow received gift pipes from his friend Louis Linkman. Linkman used his patented integral cleaner in his DG pipes.

It was under HL&T's ownership of DG that the DG Duke filter pipes first appeared. I suspect HL&T did not continue gifting pipes to Dr. Grabow. So, no he probably did not smoke filter pipes.

I also suspect HL&T acquired some sort of rights to produce their Duke filtered pipes by purchasing the Continental Briar Pipe Co., Inc., which was already producing filtered pipes called the Duke of Dundee and the Royal Duke of Dundee.

Just a guess, but I wager Medico/Kaywoodie owned rights Minton's perforated cellulose wrapped paper filter, and HLT couldn't get rights to it until they purchased Continental Briar. Just a guess. The two pipe companies may have been friendly, but they weren't that friendly.