Famous pipe smokers

[Tatanka]

Off hand I can only think of two Westerns that had a character riding a horse and smoking a pipe. One was a TV movie about Chief Joseph, James Whitmore was the cavalry officer in pursuit and he smoked a briar pipe most of the time he was riding. Also The Scalp Hunters; Burt Lancaster smoked a short briar apple bowled pipe in many scenes including on horseback.

Wow! You have a magnificent memory! I saw a white-haired, bearded Old Poop, in my bathroom mirror smoking a pipe the other day; but darned if I can tell you who it was!

[mountainman]

Alfred Hitchcock. I know he was famous for cigars, but I happen to have a pipe that was bought from his estate after he passed.

[JimVH]

Alfred Hitchcock. I know he was famous for cigars, but I happen to have a pipe that was bought from his estate after he passed.

I'd like to see it.

[mountainman]

Alfred Hitchcock. I know he was famous for cigars, but I happen to have a pipe that was bought from his estate after he passed.

I'd like to see it.

[JimVH]

Alfred Hitchcock. I know he was famous for cigars, but I happen to have a pipe that was bought from his estate after he passed.

I'd like to see it.

Thanks. That's pretty cool. I wonder what stories it could tell...

[Bloodhound]

Alfred Hitchcock. I know he was famous for cigars, but I happen to have a pipe that was bought from his estate after he passed.

I'd like to see it.

Thanks. That's pretty cool. I wonder what stories it could tell...

+1

[Sir Moose]

The Pipe-Smoking Preferences of Famous Authors

I have a book of quotes – it’s yellowed like an aging smoker’s hair and smells like an old book should. A few nights ago I found this sterling thought from Ralph Waldo Emerson:

“The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness.”

Writing has brought me employment and happiness. And while smoking a pipe never brought me a job, it has brought me hours of calm joy. I would expect to hear the same from famous authors who, with the same hands they scribbled out story ideas, held a pipe as the sun crept down to tired horizons. I suppose that's why I love pipes. It's more than the thick smoke – when I look down the vulcanite stem and follow the curve of the shank up the bowl, I join their ghosts.

[Tatanka]

The Pipe-Smoking Preferences of Famous Authors

I have a book of quotes – it’s yellowed like an aging smoker’s hair and smells like an old book should. A few nights ago I found this sterling thought from Ralph Waldo Emerson:

“The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness.”

Writing has brought me employment and happiness. And while smoking a pipe never brought me a job, it has brought me hours of calm joy. I would expect to hear the same from famous authors who, with the same hands they scribbled out story ideas, held a pipe as the sun crept down to tired horizons. I suppose that's why I love pipes. It's more than the thick smoke – when I look down the vulcanite stem and follow the curve of the shank up the bowl, I join their ghosts.

Beautifully written. Thank you.

[Roadmaster]

Alfred Hitchcock. I know he was famous for cigars, but I happen to have a pipe that was bought from his estate after he passed.

I'd like to see it.

Thanks. That's pretty cool. I wonder what stories it could tell...

+1

Cool!
I'm a big fan of Hitch.

[KYBURLEY]

I have yet to see a western movie or photo from actual western history where a man on horseback had a pipe in his mouth! My teeth would have been broken off or jarred loose had I tried it.

You could do a lot of packing on horseback with a pipe in your mouth. Mostly, you're just riding at a walk.
Of course, that wouldn't be very exciting in a movie.

With a pipe in the mouth is a different story! In camp; or riding in the night around the herd, THAT would be possible! But riding? I can't imagine a pipe in the mouth! In the cattle round-up and drive and branding I participate in - outside of Sheridan, WY, I could not have held, NOR wanted to hold a pipe in 'me mouth!" :_

Wasn't that the purpose of the saddle bit? Haha

[KYBURLEY]

Karl Radek was a pretty prolific pipe smoker. Till Stalin black bagged him and he disappeared into the Gulag system never to be heard from again. This pipe smoker on pipe smoker violence has to stop.

[Sir Moose]

I have yet to see a western movie or photo from actual western history where a man on horseback had a pipe in his mouth! My teeth would have been broken off or jarred loose had I tried it.

You could do a lot of packing on horseback with a pipe in your mouth. Mostly, you're just riding at a walk.
Of course, that wouldn't be very exciting in a movie.

With a pipe in the mouth is a different story! In camp; or riding in the night around the herd, THAT would be possible! But riding? I can't imagine a pipe in the mouth! In the cattle round-up and drive and branding I participate in - outside of Sheridan, WY, I could not have held, NOR wanted to hold a pipe in 'me mouth!" :_

Wasn't that the purpose of the saddle bit? Haha

To be fair, even if you haven't seen pipes in the mouths of riders, you've seen cavalry buglers, bugling at a full gallop. That seems like it would take out more teeth than a pipe ever could.

[Goose55]

Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Looks here like he just packed a bowl full. I wonder what he smoked...

[hugodrax]

Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Looks here like he just packed a bowl full. I wonder what he smoked...

Don't know, but I've read he was a yuuuge fan of falcon pipes.

[A_Morley]

Jung is actually documented as having smoked Granger, at least at one point, and said that he liked American blends. Also of interest is that while the majority of the pictures we have of him show him smoking metal stem system pipes, none explicitly appears to be a Falcon.

[hugodrax]

Jung is actually documented as having smoked Granger, at least at one point, and said that he liked American blends. Also of interest is that while the majority of the pictures we have of him show him smoking metal stem system pipes, none explicitly appears to be a Falcon.

I don't claim to be an expert, but there's more than one picture out there that looks like a Falcon International to me. But of course I wouldnt take my oath on it.

[A_Morley]

Jung is actually documented as having smoked Granger, at least at one point, and said that he liked American blends. Also of interest is that while the majority of the pictures we have of him show him smoking metal stem system pipes, none explicitly appears to be a Falcon.

I don't claim to be an expert, but there's more than one picture out there that looks like a Falcon International to me. But of course I wouldnt take my oath on it.

I think I know the one you're talking about. Very like a Falcon International, but not quite. Not that I'm an expert of Falcons.

[Hovannes]

Rusty would know who this guy is


(Alfred Wegener, German scientist)