Announcement

We have finally have our website online and will be using it exclusively from now on.

Although still a work in progress, and it will always be a "work in progress," we will be discontinuing this blog page as of this post.

Please join us at: http://thirdstreetcigar.com/

or "Third Street Cigar" on Facebook

Thank you for your loyal following....

Third Street Cigar Halloween Cigar Party...

October 24th. Adam SoRelle, Singer, Song Writer, Musician

Football and Free Homemade Chili...

Brad Strouse's wife is making a batch of her award winning chili for the football games this Saturday.  Come on out and have a bowl...

A Evening with Tom Turner...

Third Street Cigar Event Schedule For October...

Private Locker Room is Almost Complete...

Felix Rodriquez Master Roller to Appear at Third Street Cigar Sept. 27...

Good News Everyone!

We have been able to secure the talents of a cigar roller for the Roche de Boeuf Festival on Saturday, Sept. 27.

His name is Felix Rodriguez and he will be rolling 100 cigars with aged tobacco with our own private label. The event will run from noon to 4 or 5PM -- during the heart of the Festival.

Felix Rodriguez, 53, has worked as a cigar roller since he was 10 years old. Working with aged tobacco, Mr. Rodriguez rolls 50 to 70 cigars a day and has since become a nationally known master cigar roller taking great care with each cigar he makes. He rolls all different types and styles of cigars, ranging from thin to fat to streamlined. They vary in price, starting at only a couple of dollars and reaching up to $54.

Roche De Boeuf

Roche de Boeuf Festival, Waterville, OH

A Double Barreled Friday Night

A Double Barreled Friday Night

An evening with famous local blues artist, Andrew Ellis as well as an Alec Bradley Cigar Event

Sept. 19th.

Live Music

Cigar Tastings

Giveaways

Wine and Cigar Event...

Together with Maumee Wines and Bistro and Third Street Cigar we are hosting our first wine and cigar pairings event this Thursday evening.

The featured wines this week will be a selection of Ports. Cigars will be chosen to compliment the Port selections.

Thursday, Sept. 11 (6:30 - 9:30)
Wine tasting only -- $25
Wine and cigar tasting -- $50

Cigar & Wine Pairing Nights in September...

Wine and Cigar Pairing Events

Preview of September's Wine and Cigar pairing events

 
September 11th and 25th in conjunction with Maumee Wines

More info to follow...

Events of August 25 - August 31...

 

Coming events for the week of August 25 to August 31...

 
  August 27, Wednesday, Ladies Evening

 
August 28, Thursday, VIP Night, College Football

 
August 29, Friday, Dooley Wilson, Blues guitarist and singer

 

August 30, Saturday, The Good, The Bad & the Blues.

Week At a Glance...

August 20 -- Pipe Night

August 21 -- Military Night

August 22 -- Andrew Ellis, blues guitarist and singer

Click on the link above for an example of Andrew Ellis's work.

 

LAST MINUTE EVENT THIS AFTERNOON -- TORANO CIGAR 4 - 8:00PM

Detroit's misfortune has become our fortune.

Jack Torano and Calvin Woods were to have given a Torano Event at a cigar shop in the Detroit area this evening. Due to the excessive rainfall in the past few days the event had to cancel. They called us this morning to ask if they could drop by and put on an impromptu event at Third Street Cigar this evening. 

Of course, we agreed.

They will be giving their Vault Cigar tour and raffling off a rare box of Ultra Limited Vault VLE Blend Cigars as well as other specials.

We understand that this is your only chance to get your hands on a box of the Vault Gold VLE100. Only 100 were made and are hand numbered...

I know this is short notice, but come out if you can. You won't be disappointed.

Third Street Cigar Now on Yelp...

Third Street Cigar is now listed on Yelp, the online comment site for restaurants, stores and businesses, as well as a number of smartphone apps that find cigar stores based on your GPS position.

You must register to comment, but it only takes a minute...

http://www.yelp.com/biz/third-street-cigar-waterville

Back From Las Vegas...

As most of you know we just returned from the Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers convention in Las Vegas, NV.

This is a cigar show that is only open to retailers and suppliers and the general consuming public is barred from attending.

Since we have returned, numerous folks have asked us what the show was like. Below, is a link featuring Cigar Dave and an hour long video on this year's show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Vuwb9RoJU

Thursday Nights -- Gars & Garters...

Ladies Night!

 Every Thursday Night -- Gars & Garters

Till closing -- 10:00 PM

International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers Convention 2014...

International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers Convention 2014

Tom Clark, John Henry and Dave Webb, along with their "significant others" attended the IPCPR convention this past week.

As it was our first of many to come, a lot of time was spent simply getting the "lay of the land," so to speak.  The venue was staged in the Sands Expo, in Las Vegas this year.  

For "newbies" at the cigar convention it took a bit to separate the wheat from the chaff but by noon of the first day we pretty much had a good idea of what was important to us and what was not.  We only spent time with the major manufacturers of premium cigars and left the "boutique" folks for another day.

Concentrating on our newly established relationships with cigar manufacturers, it was good to put a face to a name.  We were able to cement new direct relationships with companies that probably would have been difficult without meeting "the man" face to face.

Most of our groundwork was laid well before the trip and many had read of Third Street Cigar in press release packages we sent prior to our trip.  All were complementary and willing deal with us in a mutually beneficial relationship.

We are looking forward to next year's convention in New Orleans...

Feature Article in Today's Toledo Blade Business Section...

This morning's Toledo Blade business section did a great article on Third Street Cigar.

Click on the article below for the full article...

Toledo Blade

Toledo City Paper Press Release...

Big weekend coming up.

Friday evening Happy Hour hosted by the officer's wive's club from 5:00 to 7:00 PM with Waterville Red, White and Boom Fireworks later that evening.  Suggest an early arrival as parking will be at a premium.

Saturday, July 5, is the "Under 30" night.  All are invited.

For a great article on Third Street Cigar, please check the Toledo City Paper.

Schedule of Upcoming Events at Third Street Cigar...

Friday evening, July 11th, is a double event:

...Appearing from 6:00 to 9:00 -- Live Blues with Curtis Grant Jr. and the Midnight Rockers with Bobby G. 

...Visiting from 5:00 to 9:00 -- Oliva Cigar Company representative. Come out and smoke one of these premium cigars.

 

Saturday, July 12th., more music and fun at Big Jack's upstairs lounge.

All weekend -- Grand opening cigar specials...

First Third Street Cigar Happy Hour...

World famous blues sax player, Eddie Shaw visits Third Street Cigar...

 

World famous blues sax player, Eddie Shaw, played a gig at the reopening of Hines Farm last night. Before heading out to the farm he stopped by TSC to see his old friend, John Henry, and press the flesh with a few of our guys. (Pictured here with our store manager, Dave Graven).

We plan on bringing Eddy back into town for a night at Third Street Cigar.

Stay tuned for details...

USA vs Germany, World Cup Soccer at Third Street Cigar...

World Cup Soccer Update:

Looked like the USA was going to pull off an incredible win tonight over Portugal. With the USA leading right up to the last seconds in a five minute penalty overtime, Portugal headed a tying goal to end the match at 2-2.

Thus the USA advances to the third round against powerhouse Germany and can continue with a tie or a win against the third ranked German team...

No need to take a few days off, buy an airline ticket and an expensive seat to watch the match in 100 % humidity in Recife, Brazil.

Take the afternoon off, amble out to Waterville and watch the match at Third Street Cigar in air-conditioned comfort.

USA vs Germany
Thursday, June 26
1:00 PM

Georgette's...

As promised, we now sell the famous Georgette's coffee in six delicious blends.

All proceeds will go to Georgette's a subsidiary of Sunshine -- a non-profit, Maumee based, charitable organization.

Correction...

Going along with what I have always believed to be true, that you never believe anything you read and only half of what you see, we find out now that the Summer Block Party in Waterville is tomorrow night, not Saturday as reported in the City Paper...

We will be at Third Street Cigar both nights to Midnight...

See you there.

Johnny Rocker and the Hitmen...Summer Rock Block Party

 You are invited to a Block Rock Party.

The Anthony Wayne All Class Reunion and Waterville Summer Block Party will be happening right before our eyes at Third Street Cigar on Saturday evening, June 21, from 5:00 to 11:00.

Third Street will be blocked off and only pedestrian traffic will be allowed.  

Appearing from 7:00 to 11:00 will be Johnny Rocker and the Hitmen.

Plan on partying with us and having a great cigar as well.  We will remain open until Midnight.

Close to Completion...

The writer of this blog (yours truly) has been on a wonderful fishing trip with my brothers to the mountain streams and lakes of the Eastern Sierras, just east of Yosemite National Park and, although the trout were plentiful, the blog has suffered.

Back now, and needing a rest from my two-mile-high fishing vacation, it's time to update the Third Street Cigar blog.

It's amazing how much got done in my absence (or, maybe, because of it) and only goes to show that this project of ours is a group effort with one goal in mind -- to create the finest cigar shop and lounge in the Midwest, bar none.

John Henry's original blues, jazz and rock and roll artist photo collection is complete and the work was hung for display this weekend.  

The state-of-the-art humidor is stocked with the finest premium cigars available and we have more in the pipeline.  

Our humidifiers are keeping the stock at a perfect 70% humidity in both the retail and the storage humidors.  We keep track of both the temperature and the humidity using a software / hardware package that samples the two parameters continuously and records that data every two seconds to a data base that warns us if one of the parameters exceeds certain preselected limits.

Except for a couple of minor items, Big Jack's Lounge in the loft is complete.  

The memorial to Big Jack Reynolds is taking shape and we have his ashes in a beautiful urn befitting the fine old musician.  We still have to place his guitars and harmonicas on the landing, but when that is complete we think Big Jack will be pleased with his final resting place.

The photo art collections there were hung this weekend also and the results are spectacular.

The selection of our sales team has been finalized with Dave Graven assuming the role of General Manager.  Dave has appointed a team of knowledgeable, professional and customer-oriented sales personnel whose only goal is to please our customers.

We have changed our hours slightly to accommodate the needs of our customers.  We will still be open from 10:00AM - 10:00PM Mondays - Thursdays and Sundays, but have extended our hours on Fridays and Saturdays to close at Midnight.

Unofficially Open for Business...

What a week!

UPS and FedEx trucks arriving on a daily basis delivering cigars from all corners of the cigar world packed the rear parking lot.  Rich Restivo on leave for a few days from his normal shipping job was appointed dock manager and did a stellar job directing traffic.  As the cases rolled in they were placed in our storage humidor and the boxes of cigars unpacked, sorted and given a temporary home waiting their final destination in the retail humidor.

Randy Tucker, Dave Graven and Bob Miller underwent an intensive training course from Tara Wilson, of the tech support wing of our POS system supplier and learned how to log those cigars into our data base so that we have an "up to the minute" inventory that can be called upon at any time we choose.  SKU numbers had to be generated, bar-code labels printed, and slowly the retail humidor began filling with stock from the storage humidor.

Although our Grand Opening will not be for another month, we decided that it was foolish to let those incredible sticks languish in the humidor and not make them available to the buying public.

Therefore, last Friday night, the first sale was made.

Bob Miller sold a cigar to John Henry.  A new milestone had been reached -- our first sale and over month early.

Although work continues in the retail side we will open Third Street Cigars on a daily basis, 1000 to 2200, for cigar sales as well as access to the public lounge, Big Jack's, in the upstairs loft.

Stop out and say hello...