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RTDA 2005

Dunhill Retailer of the Year 2005

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We attended the RTDA show in New Orleans August 5-9, 2005, where we received the Dunhill Retailer of the year award for selling more Dunhill pipes and smoking accessories than anyone else in the USA! Please enjoy the pictures below and watch this page during the upcoming weeks for links to some exciting new products.

A beautiful gold plated XXL Billiard was awarded to us at Commander's Palace, where we enjoyed a fabulous dinner and several spectacular bottles of wine, with Kalmon Hemmer and David Webb from Dunhill, along with the Owner of Music City Marketing Bill Nunlley, president Arron Sissom, and top salesman Chris Felts.

Eric & Kathy with Arron and Chris

Eric & Kathy with Kalmon & David

Kathy with Andrea and Melody from MCM

The Dunhill Room with over 3000 pipes to choose from

Eric & Kathy with a portion of the pipes we selected, including some very special pieces which will be available exclusively at Cup O' Joes. Richard Carlton Hacker came by to photgraph some of our pieces with the intention of writing an article on them. As soon as they arrive to us, they will be available on the website.

Eric and Brad Hammond from Davidoff at the Poschl's Snuff Bar

Eric & Kathy with Jazz great Avo Uvezian

Avo and his band at performing at the lounge. It was just a little smokey. Avo is a truly great Jazz musician and we thoroughly enjoyed his performance

Kathy and Carlos Fuente Jr. at the invitation only Ashton Cigar party at Emeril's Restaurant - Bam! We also enjoyed the company of Marvin Shanken of Cigar Aficionado and Wine Spectator fame.

Eric & Kathy with Victor Vitale. Victor is Ashton's salesman of the year!

Kathy with actor Peter Weller

Kathy with actor Ron Perlman at the Ashton party

Eric & Kathy with cigar great Carlos Fuente Sr.

Eric with Ken Bernstein from Fuente-Newman

Eric with Artist Arnold Martinez. Arnold produces the most awesome paintings using extracts of Coffee and Tobacco

Eric with Aylin Ozgener of CAO cigars. CAO has just signed a contract with HBO that the new CAO Sopranos Cigars will be the only ones used on the show!

Kathy in the Zippo car

Eric & Kathy with pipemaker Tim West. Tim's son Collen is recovering well from his injuries in Iraq.

Eric with Gene Thompson and Per Georg Jensen from MacBaren Tobacco. MacBaren has just released 1-pound see-thru containers which will be available shortly.

Eric with Bill Ashton-Taylor

Arturo Sansoval and freinds provided the music at the Ashton party.

Bourbon Street 9am

Bourbon Street 9pm

Where not to eat.

Yeah, we had a couple of these. This was the cleanest thing I could show you from Bourbon St., although I did find a great, non-offensive shirt reading "ALCOHOL TOBACCO FIREARMS - Who's Bringing the Chips?"

Kathy and friend making turtle soup.

Boy, I'm sure glad we're Cup O' Joes and not Papa Joes!

RTDA 2005

Dunhill Retailer of the Year 2005

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Links to Our New Products!