Sunday, April 19 2009
By Peter Ames Carlin (AP News)
Source:
OregonLive.com
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -
The rich leather chairs. The shoeshine stand. The big-screen TVs beaming ESPN in one room and financial news in another. You can also recline in a reconditioned barber's chair, and contemplate the life-sized statue of a Native American poised by the door.
"It's the ultimate man cave," Jason Lee said as he struck a wooden match and brought the fire to the tip of the thick, chocolate-brown cigar he'd been contemplating for a while.
He was in a public place. Man cave or not, Lee could be on the verge of violating Oregon's anti-indoor smoking statutes. But as owner of the Broadway Cigar Co., Lee knew he was on safe ground: in a freestanding building dedicated to the sale of cigars and related merchandise.
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