#tobacconist

[coolthingsguyslike]

[favorite-word-guy]

just here to say that everyone who says some shit like 'defenestration' 'discombobulated' or 'antidisestablishmentarianism' are unsouled.

I understand why you got beef with defenestration and antidisestablishmentarianism, but what did discombobulated ever do wrong?

[intomore]

Robert Doisneau, "The Tobacconist’s & Dog," 1953

[weirdchristmas]

any smoking santas or otherwise tobacco related images perchance? 🥺

Yes. So many, in fact, that I wrote a longer post about it, got distracted, forgot about it, had other things to do, and just now remembered to finish:

Have a Smokin’ Christmas!

Tumblr’s the biggest social media following I’ve got, around 25k followers as I write this. (It was more before the Great Pr0n Purge of 2018

[scavengedluxury]

Dr. Tiborné Hánka's tobacco shop, Piarista köz, Budapest, 1976. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[electronicsquid]

Cigarette Fund for Soldiers

(Carl Mydans. 1939)

[venicewalls]

TOBACCONIST

[scotianostra]

MacDonald Clock George  VI Bridge, Edinburgh.

This clock, believed to date from the 1940s, sits above an old tobacconist's shop. 

The shop first opened in 1918 and the last owner, Graeme Thomson, had the business in his family for 30 years. An advert for this shop from 1972 said "Pipe Smokers. All smokers' requirements. Large selection of Briars in stock - Dunhill, Parker, Charatan, Barling etc. Havana & Jamaican cigars. Our own mixtures of pipe tobacco celebrated for over 40 years are blended for the enjoyment of the smoker of taste and discernment. M. T. Macdonald. Tobacco Blender & Cigar Merchant. A privately owned, old established firm, under personal supervision." In the window of the shop there is an advert for Mitchell's Prize Crop tobacco. 

All that remains is the old Smiths of London clock hanging outside. The shop was forced to close in 2003 because of rising taxes on tobacco and changing smoking habits.