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Wednesdav. August 22, 1979
George runs relaxed pipe shop
13D
By SCOTT FAUST
Staff Reporter
George Wilson, owner of Georges' Pipe Shop. 227 Massachusetts St., enjoys smoking good tobacco and operating
A small sign on the cluttered door says,
"When Indian is out, George is in."
University Daily Kansan
Staff photo by KEVIN KING
The wooden Indian sits on the sidewalk in front of George's Pipe Shop, 727 Muschewitz St. GeorgeOWN, owner, sits on a couch watching TV from his spot on an old car seat.
one of the oldest pipe pipes in the area. Wilson and his wife Lor. Loreau, have operated the shop at the same location for 20 years.
In the shop, Wilson seems right at home surrounded by a variety of pipes, tobacco cigarettes and knick-knacks which fill every inch of the narrow shop.
Wilson, originally from Eskridge, Kan. said he graduated from KU in 1941 with a degree in sociology, and that he took the course "course" beginning in 1831 and finishing in 1852.
Wilson said he then spent three years stationed in India with the Air Force. When he returned, he started law school but never finished.
BY THIS TIME, Wilson said he already had a collection of 125 pipes and an interest in the business so he opened a pipe shop. Wilson inherited what is now the pipe shop under a law-lived. The building used to house a graphic studio, which his father-in-law owned.
Although Wilson said business usually was slower in the summer, students have always made up 50 to 74 percent of the shop's business.
Wilson's wares include novelties such as Beetle tree leaf cigarettes from India, everyday pipes and cigarettes and fine pipes made from buried brier, more than a century old, and from Meerchaum, a former found in the Mediterranean Sea.
"George started out and he's still here 30 years later," his wife said. "He must have done something right."
WILSON SAID he also sold used pipes and had a profitable pipe-repair business.
"A pipe is one of the most personalized items anybody ever has. Once a pipe
Although Wilson once made pipes himself, he said he had not made any for 15 years because of the continual increase in briar prices.
owner has his pipe seasoned, he doesn't want to exchange it for another."
George's Pipe Shop also contains odidates such as television tapes filled with music and film clips, and one which reads, "He who smokes thinks like a philosopher," are scattered throughout.
And then there is the wooden Indian
which Wilson bought in 1964. The man who carved the Indian showed up at the shop and offered to sell it, Wilson said.
WILSON HAS since wired it so that he can play music out onto the sidewalk or have conversations with nassers-by.
"H little girl," Wilson made the Indian say. "What are you doing? Aren't you going to talk to big chief? How now! Like'em big chief?"
Wilson, who smokes a pipe, cigarettes and cigars, said, "Smoking's going to kill
me, but it may take another 15 years. I'm having a good time while I going."
Wilson said he refused to let his business occupy his time completely. He closes the shop on Mondays and goes fishing at Pomong Lake in his boat, but
Another of Wilson's hobbies is collecting. Among his collections are potato sacks and 750 Avon bottles.
"I'm probably the world's worst collector," Wilson said. "In other words, I'm one of the few people who could come up with at least one of anything."
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THE HUDLED, 2004 Iowa St.-The Huddle. Mother's with a face lift, has been cleaned up to attract the KU crowd, according to the new manager, Craudick. A new coat of gray trousers is outfited appearance of the bar and a 36-48 footpad is ready for warm-might parties.
TIME OUT, 2018 Iowa St.—This bar is also a place where new owners have really changed the design of their tavern. On the outside the bar is painted the same bright yellow as the neighboring building.
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KING ARTHUR'S, 1901 Haskell St.—Arthur Peck, owner, said he would have beer in addition to food and an arcade at the tavern. He says he would attract a diverse crowd at the new tavern.
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