A Little Cigar History

coachrum

I recently came across a newspaper article from the Lima News (Ohio) featuring a cigar manufacturer in the early 1900's which happened to be the " golden age of cigars in the United States. In 1915, the peak year of cigar manufacturing in the U.S., there were 15,732 cigar manufacturers, according to the Cigar History Museum." Anyway, the article is a good read and takes you back to simpler times. Follow the link. The Lubetsky brothers and local cigars

Rhamlin

Sounds very interesting but that link doesn't work.

Bob Luken

Rhamlin:

Sounds very interesting but that link doesn't work.

This might be it.

http://www.limaohio.com/lifestyle/reminisce/article_daecc07c-b377-11e2-9314-0019bb30f31a.html

coachrum

Hmm...I don't know why. Sorry! I'll try to fix it.

Rhamlin

That is an interesting little article.

coachrum

Glad you enjoyed the read. I still don't know how to get the link from showing error after clicking on it. In reading the article, I wondered if the german immigrant, Henry Deisel has any connection to today's Deisel brand cigar? Any thoughts?

Jasonc1982

15 thousand manufacturers? Wow. And out of those 15000 I'm sure only like 1% are still around.

Bob Luken

Thanks for sharing the article with us. Very cool article. Every man woman and child must a been smokin' back then to support that many manufacturers.

kuzi16

coachrum:

In reading the article, I wondered if the german immigrant, Henry Deisel has any connection to today's Deisel brand cigar? Any thoughts?

no connection at all.
Deisel is an AJ Fernandez brand. his roots are in Cuba. the name is a coincidence.

coachrum

Yeah you said it! What it must have been like.

Amos Umwhat

Nice article, I enjoyed that.

coachrum

Glad you enjoyed it.