4th Annual West Coast Pipe Show

Brought to you by Steve O'Neill and Marty Pulvers

Reservations for Exhibit Tables and Dinner

Exhibitors for the 2012 show can purchase 1 or more tables at $95 per table. All tables must be paid for in full by September 30, 2012. Earlier reservations would be greatly appreciated. Tickets are also available for our Saturday night Awards dinner. We are featuring a wonderful Italian buffet at the price of $55 per person.

If you would rather print and mail the reservation form, click here for Microsoft Word or Acrobat.

It will be our pleasure to have Steve Fallon with us as the guest speaker at this year's Awards dinner. Here is his bio:

I joined the Texas Sports Hall of Fame as the museum’s Director and CEO in February of 1997 following a more than twenty year career in the broadcast media business.

I spent the first 22 years of my professional career in radio, television and sports broadcasting. I grew up in Waco, Texas and, in fact, began my career in Waco as the sports director for KWTX-TV in 1974 following two years of military duty as a sportscaster for the Armed Forces Radio Network in Germany. I moved to Austin, Texas in 1978 and began working as a television sports anchor for the NBC affiliate in that city and hosted a radio sports talk show in Austin for seven years. My sportscasting stints included being the radio play-by-play “voice” of the NFL Houston Oilers and the University of Texas Longhorns men’s and women’s basketball teams as well as broadcasting both professional and collegiate sporting events on NBC and ESPN radio and television.

My duties at the Texas Sports Hall of Fame include fundraising, marketing, promotions, public relations, and putting on special events such as our annual induction banquet and Bob Lilly Celebrity Golf Classic. In February of 2010 the museum completed a major expansion project that increased the size of the facility from 16,000 to more than 36,000 square feet, making it the largest state sports museum in the country.

I began smoking a pipe just after my senior year of high school in 1971 at age 18 (I am now 59), and have been an avid collector/smoker of pipes since that time. When I was in high school I worked weekends as a disc jockey for a local radio station and the news man (a very distinguished looking older gentleman), was always walking around the studios with a pipe in his mouth and every puff emitted an indescribably wonderful aroma. (I found out later that his blend of choice was Sir Walter Raleigh aromatic). The vision and smell of that pipe stayed with me and after I graduated high school and just before being drafted into the Army, I bought my first pipe. It was a Royal Danish bent Dublin that I ordered from an Iwan Ries catalog that the aforementioned news man gave to me after I mentioned that I wanted to give pipe smoking a try.

I have a saying, “Pipe smokers are born, not made.” I really believe this because I made all the newbie mistakes while smoking my pipe. I learned quickly that a tightly packed briar filled with a wet, goopy aromatic was a terrific recipe for tongue bite. Yet, despite a constantly blistered tongue, I never spit the bit and just kept at it. And now, after more than 40 years, I think I am getting close to mastering how to smoke a pipe.

My eBay consignment business began simply enough with me selling not only some of my own pipes, but a few pipes for members of my local pipe club. When I discovered that I could actually raise a few extra dollars by selling other people’s pipes, I got serious and started doing some research regarding effective and profitable selling on eBay and selected a name for myself that would stand out in a crowd…. Pipestud. I’ll never forget proudly telling my wife what I had selected as my eBay User ID. “Well, what do you think,” I asked? “Congratulations honey, you are finally going to be a stud at something,” was her laughing reply. That was back in 2002, and here I am, 10 years later having the time of my life working with great clients from all over the world and making a few extra dollars while enjoying my pipe smoking hobby to the max. Pipe smokers/collectors are the best folks in the world and I am proud to be associated with so many of them through Pipestud’s eBay Consignment Shop.

IMPORTANT WEBSITE AND INFORMATION NUMBERS

For special West Coast Pipe Show room rates call the Palace Station Hotel & Casino: (800) 634-3101

For Palace Station Hotel & Casino information and amenities please visit the hotel's website at: www.palacestation.com

For table reservations or for any other information, please contact:

 Steve O'Neill:
P.O. Box 2258
Kapaa, HI 96746
steve@westcoastpipeshow.com
http://www.westcoastpipeshow.com
Telephone: (435)760-2411

We're looking forward to seeing you at the West Coast Pipe Show and we hope you'll  join us in making this an annual event.