OK. I know that some of you out there are just as old as I am. Remember when every bar and restaurant had bowls of matches at the door when you entered? (Now they have bowls of mints)
I used to collect the matchbooks even though I never smoked. They were a nice reminder of where I had been. I had a rather large collection. But long ago our basement flooded and the shoebox, which had been on the floor for some reason and not on a shelf, got a little soggy.
I still have a basket of a few that remain on the bar in my family room. I never use them since if I need a match I use one of those firestarter clicky things. Besides, there is no chance I will burn my finger waiting for a candle wick to light.
But I did decide to sort through them and take a picture of what is left. I'm wondering how many of these places have been visited by my readers.
Certainly La Tour Eiffel. Don't really recognise any of the other names. I don't remember going into bars with matches, maybe it was predominantly in the States.
ReplyDeleteModavie and XIX Siecle are both in Montreal. Don't remember when I picked them up.
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