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Pipe of Peace is a tobacco shop in Nassau, Bahamas. Quoting from Ian Fleming’s ''Thunderball'' (1961): “The girl gave a cheerful wave of a sunburned hand, raced up the street in second, and stopped in front of The Pipe of Peace, the Dunhills of Nassau.” It’s still in operation, and claims to have the largest selection of pipes in the world. | [[File:PeacePipe-20-Nassau1.JPG|thumb|left|Pipe of Peace, Nassau, Bahamas, Courtesy Facebook]][[File:PeacePipe-21-Nassau2.JPG|thumb|Courtesy, flemingsbond.com]]Pipe of Peace is a tobacco shop in Nassau, Bahamas. Quoting from Ian Fleming’s ''Thunderball'' (1961): “The girl gave a cheerful wave of a sunburned hand, raced up the street in second, and stopped in front of The Pipe of Peace, the Dunhills of Nassau.” It’s still in operation, and claims to have the largest selection of pipes in the world. | ||
There’s a chain of Peace Pipe smoke shops in Florida and similar establishments with the same name everywhere across the country … too many to list. An Edison, New Jersey, store has an unusual name, Smokin’ Devils Peace Pipe. There’s the Peace Pipe Cannabis Company in Oklahoma, and The Peace Pipe Cannabis Company with five retail locations in Canada. There’s a Peace Pipe Café in Richardson, Texas and one in Granbury, Texas, the Peace Pipe Bar (hookah lounge) in Charlotte, North Carolina, one in faraway Almaty, Kazakhstan, and many others everywhere you look. | There’s a chain of Peace Pipe smoke shops in Florida and similar establishments with the same name everywhere across the country … too many to list. An Edison, New Jersey, store has an unusual name, Smokin’ Devils Peace Pipe. There’s the Peace Pipe Cannabis Company in Oklahoma, and The Peace Pipe Cannabis Company with five retail locations in Canada. There’s a Peace Pipe Café in Richardson, Texas and one in Granbury, Texas, the Peace Pipe Bar (hookah lounge) in Charlotte, North Carolina, one in faraway Almaty, Kazakhstan, and many others everywhere you look. | ||
There’s the Peace Pipe Country Club in Denville, New Jersey, and the Pipe-O-Peace Golf Course in Riverdale, Illinois. The Peace Pipe Lounge is a guest house in Montrose, Colorado, the Peace Pipe Motel in Diamond Point, New York, and Peace Pipe Vista in Park Rapids, Minnesota. There’s Peacepipe Arroyo Rock Climbing within the McKelligon Canyon in Texas. The Treaty City Motorcycle Club of Greenville, Ohio, hosts the annual Peace Pipe Enduro series of races, and Vermont’s Mount Snow Carinthia Park Ski Resort hosts the annual Peace Pipe snowboard event. | There’s the Peace Pipe Country Club in Denville, New Jersey, and the Pipe-O-Peace Golf Course in Riverdale, Illinois. The Peace Pipe Lounge is a guest house in Montrose, Colorado, the Peace Pipe Motel in Diamond Point, New York, and Peace Pipe Vista in Park Rapids, Minnesota. There’s Peacepipe Arroyo Rock Climbing within the McKelligon Canyon in Texas. The Treaty City Motorcycle Club of Greenville, Ohio, hosts the annual Peace Pipe Enduro series of races, and Vermont’s Mount Snow Carinthia Park Ski Resort hosts the annual Peace Pipe snowboard event. | ||
Look at any map in detail and you’ll find addresses such as Peace Pipe Place, Peace Pipe Road, Peace Pipe Drive, Peace Pipe Bend, Peace Pipe Way, Peace Pipe Court, and Peace Pipe Lane. West Hammond, Illinois, founded in 1868, was renamed Calumet City in 1924, and there are 12 other places in the world named Calumet. In Rachel Field’s book of fiction, And Now Tomorrow (2022), Peace-Pipe is a mill in New England. Coreorgonel was an 18th-century Native-American Village in what is now Tompkins County, New York. Its translation is “Where we keep the pipe of peace.” | Look at any map in detail and you’ll find addresses such as Peace Pipe Place, Peace Pipe Road, Peace Pipe Drive, Peace Pipe Bend, Peace Pipe Way, Peace Pipe Court, and Peace Pipe Lane. West Hammond, Illinois, founded in 1868, was renamed Calumet City in 1924, and there are 12 other places in the world named Calumet. In Rachel Field’s book of fiction, And Now Tomorrow (2022), Peace-Pipe is a mill in New England. Coreorgonel was an 18th-century Native-American Village in what is now Tompkins County, New York. Its translation is “Where we keep the pipe of peace.” | ||
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