I have just added a new section to the 'Photos of the Forgotten' website. It's 'Matchbooks From Anaheim' and features, you guessed it, images of old Anaheim businesses matchbook covers. I have tons of matchbooks, but decided to limit this section to my home town of Anaheim, CA. Many if not most of the businesses shown in these pages are no longer with us and it's fun to see the addresses of where they were located. I also like seeing the old phone number word prefixes that they stopped using about 40 years ago.
When my family first moved to Anaheim in '72, I went around to all the local motels and collected matches from many of them. Many of the desk clerks were not wanting me to take them as you can imagine these days if a young boy came in asking for matches, but most were obliging. I had them in a bag in my closet for a time, but were lost over the years. These are all images from items I acquired in recent years. You don't see matches used as commonly these days as a promotional item. Although there are a few that are rear strike packs from the 80s, these are mostly old front strike books from the 60s & 70s.
The jazzy retro music is from an album called 'Music For TV Dinners: The Sixties' which I highly recommend.
Enjoy!
2 comments:
The 60s collection is great, but I think I like the original Music For TV Dinners disc even better. It's a collection of production music from the 1950s. Outstanding stuff!
Hi Chris. I have them both. They are great trips down musical memory lanes. I have a pretty extensive collection of old production music libraries from KPM, DeWolfe, etc. Instrumental goodness!
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