(Minneapolis Star Tribune) Sometimes a cigar shop is just a cigar shop. With apologies to Sigmund Freud, however, that's hardly the case at Perfect Ash, a premium cigar and tobacco shop in Lilydale.
Perfect Ash owner Diana Petrich has created both an entrepreneurial refuge for herself and an oasis where patrons can share in their often-frowned-upon indulgence.
Petrich has invested and innovated to turn around what had been a foundering, musty cigar and pipe shop in the former Diamond Jim's Club entertainment complex, now known as River Bluff Center. She spent $40,000 remaking the shop, close to half of that on the new cedar-lined humidor alone. Continued
Illustration: Jupiter cigars for sale here / lith. of F. Heppenheimer & Co., N.Y., circa 1868. (Library of Congress).
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