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 [[File:Rapaport-PipeClub-3.JPG|thumb|thumb|center|600px|Courtesy.cigaraficionado.com]]
-This might have been the only American department store with a pipe club. In 1939, “A new pipe club was set up in the Esquire Room restaurant, with pipes, tobacco, and a dark oak pipe rack all supplied free of charge by Gable’s [a department store in Altoona, Pennsylvania]. Members had 131 pipes and high grade tobacco like Prince Albert and Sir Walter Raleigh at their disposal, for use in the Esquire Room. The only. Requirement was that the members be regular patrons of the Esquire Room restaurant” (Robert Jeschonek, ''The Glory of Gable’s'', 2019).
+This might have been the only American department store with a pipe club. In 1939, “A new pipe club was set up in the Esquire Room restaurant, with pipes, tobacco, and a dark oak pipe rack all supplied free of charge by Gable’s [a department store in Altoona, Pennsylvania]. Members had 131 pipes and high grade tobacco like Prince Albert and Sir Walter Raleigh at their disposal, for use in the Esquire Room. The only requirement was that the members be regular patrons of the Esquire Room restaurant” (Robert Jeschonek, ''The Glory of Gable’s'', 2019).
 [[File:Rapaport-PipeClub-4.JPG|thumb|The Founders of the "Women's Pipe Smoking Club". Courtesy, pipelovinladies.tumblr.com]]The earliest female club, the “Women’s Pipe Smokers Club,” was founded in 1926. The photo depicts its founders.