Smokers Haven

In June of 1940 Smokers Haven was opened by its founder Joseph Zieve, his wife Ina, and his brother in-law Sid Ritter. Joe and Sid were pioneers in the Retail market of pipes and tobaccos, and established a real Specialty Tobacco shop. From 1940 until the late 1970s, Smokers Haven was one of the largest and most distinguished Pipe and Tobacco shops in the world with an inventory of over 10,000 English pipes and a range of some of the best Pipe Tobacco Blends. Joe and Sid would take frequent trips to England to develop new tobacco blends and new shapes for GBD pipes so they could offer unique and quality products for their customer base which numbered over 60,000. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the pipe market started to dwindle and many of the pipe and tobacco suppliers discontinued their products. In 1983, Joe Zieve retired and sold Smokers Haven. The 2nd owner did not adapt to the market, and Smokers Haven almost disappeared. In 1987, my father Arvind Chheda, purchased ...