1960’s Tampa Cubs

If there are any of you vintage cigar collectors out there, who are after those extremely rare cigars that are merely impossible to find, Luckily for you have stumbled onto the only box left as far as my search engines will take me in this vintage cigar journey. You can still find a decent empty box on eBay every now and then in various conditions, but the cigars themselves are left if desired in an unobtainable state unfortunately.

The honorable Fendrich Family in 1833 from Magraviate of Baden, Holy Roman empire, a.k.a. Germany nowadays, Started their adventure to Baltimore, Maryland. Having obtained over the years and extensive family history of cigar making. There were five brothers of the Fendrich family who came together with not only just a cigar business, but would also heavily distribute Kentucky leaf plug tobacco via horse and buggy, steamboat river, transportation, and railroad deliveries at the time with Telegraph communications.

Their business would later survive both world wars, factory fires, and the Great Depression. The Indiana factory location was the largest out of 600+ competing companies. They Had a reputation of taking extremely good care of their employees. They also had factories in Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

During war times out of the goodness of their hearts would take 30% of production with special designed wooden boxes with waterproof liners to be able to be dropped In bad weather or on remote islands, where there were no harbor facilities. Also the Fendrich machine shops would convert and produce precision parts for the war effort.

The Tampa cub cigars themselves were produced starting around 1950’s up until 1969 when Parodi cigar corporation in PA purchased the company and decided to not carry over Fendrich brands in there catalog. With the rarity factor involved with these Tampa Cubs, the clock is for sure ticking for availability and would suggest taking a crack at a few as IMO were every bit of scrumptious. I wish you good luck on your journey down the vintage cigar highway.

Puff on and Cheers to you All!