Looking for a real wild time this Halloween? Then why not pack up your old kit bags, a few pipes and some tobacco and head for swinging Las Vegas, Nevada for the West Coast Pipe Show on October 31 and November 1, 2009.

For a mere $10 cover charge, you’ll get access to over 100 tables of vendors hawking pipes, pipe tobacco and pipe smoking accessories at the Palace Station Hotel and Casino. This pittance of a cover charge will get you show access on both days of the show! Looking to exhibit or sell off part of your pipe collection, at last word, there were still tables for exhibitors available at $75 each.

The Palace Station is ideally located just west of I-15 at Sahara Boulevard, the Palace Station is just far enough away from the hustle and bustle of the strip but only a short cab ride away if you are looking for more kicks.

While the events for Sunday are still to be announced, the show floor will be open from 10 am until 5 pm both days. On Saturday they will have a Pipe Making Workshop, a Tobacco Blending Workshop as well as conversations with a couple of authors as well as a silent auction. With any luck, perhaps Tom and I will see you there on Sunday! We hope to

For more details about the West Coast Pipe Show, see their website at http://WestCoastPipeShow.com.

The L.A. Pipe Club will be holding their December meeting at the Tobacco Barn in Lake Forest, CA in our lounge on the afternoon of Sunday, December 13th.

All pipe aficianados are welcome. Please bring your favorite pipe(s) and tobacco (or pick up some fine pipe tobacco at our shop) and spend the afternoon talking with like-minded Brothers of the Leaf!

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PipesMagazine.com has a great article on corn cob pipes from the Missouri Meerschaum pipe company. In addition to some great information about the formation of this legendary company. In addition, you’ll find a great number of updated images from those found in the Life Magazine article that we talked about last December.

The Corn Cob Pipe is an American icon and known the world over. They have been around for over 100 years and are still popular today.

This is the story of the Corn Cob Pipe with the history of it’s origin, the founding of Missouri Meerschaum, it’s manufacturer, and a step by step photographic guide showing how they are manufactured.

Washington, Missouri has long been known as the Corn Cob Pipe Capital of the World. It was the Missouri Meerschaum Company, still the largest manufacturer of corn cob pipes in the world, that began the tradition for which Washington became famous.

You can find the full article here.

If you are looking for the best-selling corn cob pipes, you can find the Missouri Meerschaum Country Gentleman Corncob Pipe, Missouri Meerschaum Legend Corncob Pipe or Missouri Meerschaum Mac Corncob Pipe at the Tobacco Barn.