- [Articles and items posted from the last 12 months]
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- Market extinguished, but matchbooks
still spark memories
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- DailyHerald.com, January 19,
2012.
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- Once an advertising staple that doubled as a free souvenir
from vacations, matchbooks are all but extinguished. But suburban
collectors, and even an Illinois museum, still see matchbooks
as a piece of history worth preserving. "In restaurants,
you can't smoke anymore and that's what killed the industry,"
says Bob Cigrang, 62, a Mount Prospect resident who helped found
the Windy City Matchcover Club in 1985 for local collectors.
Read the complete article at http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120119/news/701199993/
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- Matchbook Covers
- ESPN Magazine, November, 2011, featured a page on mostly
Group I matchbooks.
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Matchcovers As History
Mike Avitt, IA, writes a weekly history column for
his local newspaper. Here’s the Nov. 3rd issue where
he managed to slip in some great publicity for matchcovers. He
even got in a plug for RMS! Nice article, Mike, and nice going!
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Take me with you
Frank Rotello, CO: Frank sent in a copy of the Nov.
2nd, 2011 Denver Post, which had a nice article (“Take me
with you”), all about the advertising advantages of matchbooks,
and focusing on the pluses they offer for restaurants.
The article, itself, was too dark to reproduce here, but it
effectively presented a persuasive argument for keeping the matchbook
around, not just for smoking!
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- Gay Philosopher Matchbook Cover
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- March 5, 2011: Herb Price, IA, had an article
run on The Gay Philosopher By Henry Major blog [http://gayphilosopher.blogspot.com/
- featuring covers of the Gay Philosopher
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