Category: The Matchbooks
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…
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…
Graceful batshit
I found this Grace Line matchbook and did a little googling. It seems that this company started out by importing…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Think ahead, Santa.
One would think someone that is in the habit of climbing into chimneys on cold winter nights, would not distribute…
No parrots in the kitchen!
The Buccaneer Inn in Sarasota featured a pirate mascot on the advertising, complete with a wooden leg, eyepatch, grog, parrot….