Posted on 04/13/2024 9:58:32 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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When my parents bought cigs, they always got a new matchbook.
Yes I know this post is nostalgia, and yes I also know, "Don't play with matches", that phrase is ingrained into my mind.
Kids play with lighters, now. “Assault matches.”
I still have a matchbook somewhere from the long-defunct Portland Chinese restaurant Hung Far Low. Wonder if it’s worth anything.
Except nobody bid on it, so it’s not really worth that.
Some interesting nostalgia among the Portland matchbooks. I used to go to the Crab Bowl on SW Barbur Blvd until it got so popular that you had to wait in line to get in.
I used to collect matchbooks from our family vacations. Neither of my parents were smokers, but so many of their friends were, back then.
That’s quite a collection shown.
I remember the wonderful pipe tobacco mixes from the 60s through 90s. I’m talking great aged Virginia, cured Barley, Danish flake and not the cheap cherry flavored aromatics. Still a very few places they can be purchased but, alas, i had to put my briars away. I could not use tobacco in moderation.
But there was something worth collecting.
I’ve got a gallon jar of matchbooks my dad collected. But I didn’t know there was much of a collectors market.
I remember when they moved the strike pad from the front to the back - yeah, you could set off the whole book, but it was pretty cool to bend one down, strike it, light it and never tear it off.
I’m also p.o.ed they took wooden ‘strike anywhere’ matches off the market. Now, THAT was a match — you could strike it on the sole of your shoe.
I have a matchbook that says “rOt” on the cover. I wonder if anyone knows if it has any value.
Matchbooks are very collectible. I had one years ago that was an advertisement for one of those 1930s anti-marijuana movies. I sold it for over $300.
After the collapse of civilization, matchbooks will be priceless.
Yes but the poor man will still have to use sticks.
The finder will say it was used to light the ceremonial tobacco in rituals to appease the angry deity.
I tried rubbing two sticks together
. Got a puff of smoke- no fire.
Ping
you could strike it on the sole of your shoe.
= = =
or the sole of your bare foot, if caloused correctly.
My mom had an extensive collection of matchbooks, until she had a basement flood. Darn it!
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