Help spotting CC fakes in the 1930's!!

[99call]

Love this little postcard. Imagine getting this wrapped up with your cigars, on a Thanksgiving day shopping spree at 'United Cigars" at the base of Macy's.  Then maybe go upstairs to 'Fullers Billiards' for a nice sit down smoke, and maybe some under the counter moonshine. 

I miss this sort of advertising, wonderfully crafted, honest, and no BS

 

[Markspring1978]

Very cool. Thanks for posting. 

[rcarlson]

That appears to be a counterfeit postcard.  

[BrightonCorgi]

It was just over 20 years ago where we had a Dunhill store on Newbury St (Boston) where you could smoke while shopping for clothes.  They offered complimentary single malts and like while you smoke and shop.  Good old days!  They humidor kept cigar too humid though.  Now the Dunhill stores have very little reference to cigars.

[Derboesekoenig]

May have been good old days for Cuban cigar smoking, but in a big metropolis with leaded fuel still going strong....yikes. Can't imagine what New York City smelled like in the '30's and '40's.

[99call]

Spotted this as a little update to Macy's store history.  Great vintage advert.  

[Wookie]

On 12/3/2018 at 8:56 AM, BrightonCorgi said:

It was just over 20 years ago where we had a Dunhill store on Newbury St (Boston) where you could smoke while shopping for clothes.  They offered complimentary single malts and like while you smoke and shop.  Good old days!  They humidor kept cigar too humid though.  Now the Dunhill stores have very little reference to cigars.

I loved that store, but not so much their cigars. Still have some nice accessories from there. Erlich's as well.

Not to mention a nice post dinner cigar at Grill 23, Bristol Lounge, Les Zygomates, and a bunch of my other old haunts. Did you have a favorite restaurant that allowed cigars back in the day?

[BrightonCorgi]

45 minutes ago, Wookie said:

I loved that store, but not so much their cigars. Still have some nice accessories from there. Erlich's as well.

Not to mention a nice post dinner cigar at Grill 23, Bristol Lounge, Les Zygomates, and a bunch of my other old haunts. Did you have a favorite restaurant that allowed cigars back in the day?

Back then I use to work at Avalon on Lansdowne St and smoking was allowed in most clubs.  There was a pool hall/club near Haymarket whose name escapes me.  We use to smoke there a lot.  Kind of diagonal from Churchill's which I did not like smoking at.  Too much ventilation; could barely taste a cigar there.  Grill 23 I can remember smoking at.  I didn't have so much cash at that point in my life.  I use to get a lot of Habanos from Saudi and Gulf nation friends I knew from the clubs.  This included Cuban Davidoff's and the like.  One friend said there was a store in Saudi that had bought the remainder of Davidoff's that could be bought when they transitioned to DR.  Les Zygomates is fun.  Troquet has moved next door and we go there for wine in the summer.  Best wine deals probably in the US during the summer.

In all honesty, I did not like smoking at restaurants and clubs back then.  It was too confining just sitting there smoking a cigar while all the girls are not sitting there...  Now that I am older and not looking to get laid constantly (well at least from random women), smoking a cigar at restaurant is more viable.

[Chas.Alpha]

On 12/3/2018 at 10:34 AM, Derboesekoenig said:

May have been good old days for Cuban cigar smoking, but in a big metropolis with leaded fuel still going strong....yikes. Can't imagine what New York City smelled like in the '30's and '40's.

Probably a lot like Havana does now...