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Sunflower Pipes Teaches Bushwick About the Spiritual Side of Smoking

On the corner of Wilson Ave and Noll St sat a little store with a “for lease” sign in the window for years

Sunflower Pipes Teaches Bushwick About the Spiritual Side of Smoking
Erik Pye and Lisa Kernodle

Sunflower Pipes Teaches Bushwick About the Spiritual Side of Smoking

On the corner of Wilson Ave and Noll St sat a little store with a “for lease” sign in the window for years

Sunflower Pipes Teaches Bushwick About the Spiritual Side of Smoking
Erik Pye and Lisa Kernodle
Erik Pye and Lisa Kernodle

On the corner of Wilson Ave and Noll St sat a little store with a “for lease” sign in the window for years. In 2013 Erik Pye saw the store with his girlfriend Lydia Kernodle and decided to take the last little bit of money he had left and open a head shop in.

Erik had been selling glass pipes as a street vendor after graduating with an art degree from Cooper Union. A vendor he frequented had…

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