Day Archives: April 21, 2025

AMERICAN PIPE DREAMS
Jerome Baker Designs helped pioneer the glass smokeware industry, becoming the largest bong producer in the world…that is, until Operation Pipe Dreams caused the company to go up in smoke. Nearly 20 years later, they’ve risen from the ashes to reclaim their place of prominence in the glass game. Jerome Baker founder Jason Harris. [Sly Vegas] Functional glass art is a huge part of our culture. Heady borosilicate bongs and bubblers are not only the method by which glass artists express their …

Jerome Baker Designs
Operation Pipe Dreams Jason started making glass pipes in 1991. He started the company from a college dorm room, and, by 1999, was doing $4 million a year and had 70 employees in Eugene, Oregon based out of multiple warehouses on what Jason refers to as “a mini campus” for making bongs. “It was like a Willy Wonka bong factory,” he recalls. Low and behold, he was being investigated by the feds in what turned out to be a two-year investigation …
top