Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Here's what the homepage looked like of our gone but not forgotten home.

http://demo.knoxos.com/browser/show?...e=&urlArchive=


How about November 2000? http://demo.knoxos.com/browser/show?...e=&urlArchive=

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Boy, I was almost young back then!

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Wow, looked a little different before I joined 5yrs later.

Very cool fine.

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Man there were some good times there....:sad

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Great times here though!

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

That's before my time. Wow. Thanks for sharing that. :tu
It's always cool to go back and see what things used to be like.

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

You can click on the links. Found this:
http://130.94.224.229/share/pokerintro.jpg

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

It is true...the "red-named ones" were newbies once, too!:r

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Yah... except poker was far from a noob at that point.

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

That's pretty cool:tu

Graphics, or lack there of, are still better than p***.com.

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

I had to get to page three of the World Cigar Lounge before I found the cello on/off debate.

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

I would say better times here..lol:r

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Poker was born a FOG. :D

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Wow, talk about the old days :r


Everyone was a noob at one time. Hell, with new cigars & blends coming out frequently, new cutters, new lighters, etc, I still consider myself a noob in many areas.

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

If you're still a noob, then I have no hope.

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Cool.

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Very cool...! :ss

I came along much later... and I gotta say - I truly love being here in this asylum (as in "haven"), but I miss Louie. :(

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Cheer up Joe. You may not have Louie around as your mascot, but now you have me. I think Tom wants to designate me as CA's poster boy.
I seem to fit the bill pretty well. You've seen the photos...
All someone needs to do is photoshop me into a straight jacket and we have ca's new mascot.

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Ah, the good ol' days. I bet you guys didn't know it, but Poker used to be a baseball star:Attachment 2193.

Yup, he was a pretty good catcher for the Giants back in his day. Unfortunately he got knocked up and had a baby out of wed-lock:Attachment 2194.

Well all that squatting and the carousing really ruined his knees, and what with a child and all, he had to give up baseball.
He went into "show business" on the streets of San Fransisco to support his new son, Attachment 2199



That worked to put cigars on the table and raise his son right. Eventually, though, his son got into the wrong crowd, and unfortunately got sent up on weapons charges in Compton. Once his son finally got out of prison, his son was never the same Attachment 2203

But Poker has things in perspective and now spends his day quietly modding a cigar board and slowly going through his stash of vintage cigars. If you're ever in Westminster, Ca, on a sunny Sunday morning, you can sometimes see him on the street corners, just for old times sake, selling contraband cigars and testing the Rh of dogrocketsAttachment 2198



:D Ah, the good old days




(kudos to IHT, Andyman, backwoods and Aaron for the photoshops)

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Bastage. Just wait till you & your skin flavored denture cream show up at SoCal. :D :r

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

:dance::wo


Whew, got off easy(so far). Good thing I didn't dig up the "Jessie in a wedding gown dream" thread, your SLR Choix Supreme review, or the dinosaur pictures.....:)

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

wow, thats cool...thanks for the post! :tu

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Remember the baby tasting pic? ;)

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

TechnoRobo as the priest picture??

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Even I don't remember that...
Someone had better dig it up

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

:tu
Hey, to paraphrase J. Wales:

"I reckon so. I guess we all died a little in that damn thread...."

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

I died more than a little in that thread...

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

No worries, AL was still older than dirt back then.

:D

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

For anyone out there wanting some nostalgia, Club Stogie is back up in archive form at clubstogie.com. Basically where it ended in 2008. Since Puff is dead (still feel I let a lot of people down when I sold) when they gave up the domains, I grabbed clubstogie just so I could put the history up for those interested.

Important note...while it acts and works like an active forum, it is not. Cigar Asylum is...CS is just there for any old Gorillas that want to check out the past.

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

I can't believe that is right, I don't see IceHog posts all over the pages :D

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Thank you, Paul. I so miss the stellar site that you built and those amazing gorillas who didn't follow us to CA.

Dang fun times.

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Past from the past.

Thanks for posting it.

Reading some old threads. I remember when everyone used Oust fans in their cabinets.

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Paul, so good to "see" you. You and Club Stogie brought me to the social world of the cigar culture, where I travel all over the country to smoke cigars with Gorillas and Inmates.

About to click in the archive and remember where it all started for me and lots of others here. :)

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Oh wow! That's awesome, Paul. Thank you. Hard to believe all this time has passed.

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

I will be checking that out and thanks for posting it Paul. I had joined CS not too long before the change. There are still a couple people I wonder whatever happened to from there. A few made the switch to CA but dropped off the radar soon after. Like Al. screen name was ahc3453 I think. Al came over and I just looked but it's been since 2012 since he logged in. I still remember when we were in Massachusetts and learned my mother in law had perished back home in a house fire. We had to load up and head back the 1100 miles to get home. Actually somewhere on the Garden State Parkway Al called me on the phone to offer his condolences. It was my introduction to the cigar world and I have very fond memories.

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Very cool, thanks Paul. Some very good memories from those days!

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Glad I can deliver some nostalgia! It was funny, when Puff went under (great/sad story there) I watched the URL's for ClubStogie and Top25Cigar. They bounced around a bit, but finally got them both back.

Next step is to try and get the old cigar review database from T25C back up for "old days" purposes. That's a little tougher, as technology has changed a lot since 2009!

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

BTW, so freakin' cool to see all the names again! When I sold the sites, I was overwhelmed with my 5 year old twins. Those twins are in their first year of college now! Enjoy every day, they fly fast!

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

So odd to see my old screen name (vstrommark). I was a very active motorcyclist back then. Great memories, Paul. Thank you so much.

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

That was the 1st cigar forum I had ever joined.

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Man.... memories. Thanks Paul!

Reading some of my reviews.... wow!

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

I hope you can get the review database back, there were some gems on there!

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Hey guys - I have had a couple people reach out and ask if they can still log in and see some of the "hidden" forums they had access to.

Answer: No clue. :) I am assuming the old emails and passwords came over, and likely the retrieve passwords functions work. But really have not dug into it. If you have a specific request, happy to look into it if you want to IM me here. No guarantees, but understand the desire to see the entirety of the "old world'.

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

No lie. The old version was in .asp if anyone remembers that. Will need to convert it over, but I agree, there was some great humor in there!

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Caputo changed my password and I sure can't ask him. Doh!

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

It works! Wow, this made my day, thanks Paul.

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Classic! I literally know nothing about the forum software, I picked it as it had an easy import facility from the old VB database!

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

He probably changed it to F**kicehog

Might be worth a shot :tu

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

"Douchehog" ?

Re: Club Stogie circa 2001.
 

Maybe it's Kwagga