From: ????????????????? (MarkH)
Newsgroups: alt.smokers.pipes
Subject: Hooray!! new pipe store in SF Bay area (Menlo Park)

Those of you who live in the S.F. Bay area might note that there are many
fewer pipe stores today than 5 years ago. And many that are left are mostly
"gift shops", that sell a few pipes and tobacco. I have not noted a single
NEW pipe store to open up in all that time.

Well, I happened to be in Menlo Park today, near Kepplers Books. Around the
corner was a new (in fact, not yet open) store - 

Old Knickerbockers Tobacconists
Cigars, Pipes, Rare Tobaccos, Smoker's Requisites
555 Santa Cruz Ave, Menlo Park  (415) 327-PIPE


I spoke briefly to the person inside, still setting up the store. From the
outside, it looks like a pipe tobacco store, not a gift shop. They promise
to have some stock of nicer pipes - I plan to check them out when they open
(possibly by end of this week - Nov 11) and will issue a report. The store
is in a small section of the British Bankers Club, for those of you who
know the area.

No, I have no connection to the store. I'm just glad to see a small
reversal in the trend (and another place to check out the latest pipe, or
try a new tobacco).

73,

MarkH

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