Category: The Matchbooks
The elephant in the room
Used to be a place you could bring your “significant other” and discuss that thing that neither of you cares to discuss- “The elephant in…
Vote no on what now?
This old matchbook advocates voting NO on Proposition 5. I have no idea what proposition 5 is, but being a typical American that would not…
The day the needle hit the ground
Sequestered here, I was going through my old matchbook collection. I was concerned when I saw this truncated Space Needle ( Or UFO? ) Turned…
Graceful batshit
I found this Grace Line matchbook and did a little googling. It seems that this company started out by importing bat poop to the USA,…
A nice day in Cumberland
I like these extra-wide matchbooks. This one is for the Hazelton company, manly men with their crawlers, dozers, pay-loaders, rollers and graders… everything you need…
I’ll have the soup!
I found this in my matchbook collection, I was laughing but my wife told me to grow up. Not sure why they chose this name,…
The sordid tale of the Silver Slipper
Back in the day, specifically 1950 to 1988, the Silver Slipper Casino sat next to the Frontier, spinning a giant slipper on the roof. In…
It’s just a Conoco station.
I was happy to get this “Wall Drug” matchbook cover, this is one of our must go places for the big 2023 road trip. Wall…
Zeke has had enough
I think Zeke has had enough of his little brother’s failure to plan ahead. Now everybody has to set their jugs down so he can…
Think ahead, Santa.
One would think someone that is in the habit of climbing into chimneys on cold winter nights, would not distribute matches. Maybe he should stick…
