50: Matchbooks

Hello LA TIMES,
Thank you so much for the Matchbook articles.
My dad KID ORY played at many of the clubs,&my mother dined at many places,especially Bullocks Tea room.
I went to Pann's as a small child.
My parents both smoked,4 packs a day,so matches&lighters w/logos were abundant in our home.
Plus on Sundays,family dinners included a jam session ,with lots of smoking&drinking with the likes of 3 of the Hot Five in our living room.
Louis loved match books&would scat&make up a unmentionable cascade of words that commented
on the covers.
the Sidemen would under play this game,Until Lois picked up his part on horn. Any topic of Clubs,owners ,restaurants came up.
Thanks Again
Babette Ory
Hancock Park

I have collection of more than 250, mostly Indian (as in from India) match box covers, never knew it could look so beautiful. I need to brush it up!

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Not as pretty but I have a full box of mettalic green matchbooks from
JIM BABER'S
THE TRACK (with backwards c)
"A BEER JOINT"

5066 W,PICO BLVD.
LOS ANGELES 19
WE 6-9160

on the front

JUST A LITTLE DIFFERENT
on top
JUST ONE MUG
TO ANOTHER
with a foaming beer mug on the back

I'm guessing a early sports bar with off site betting??

Pann's (#24) is still around, as is some iteration of Bob's (#3), Clearman's Steak N Stein (#8), Norm's (#26), and possibly others.

#18 appears to be mirrored.

There used to be a place in the 80's on 2nd St. in the Belmont Shore district of Long Beach called Ptomaine Tommy's, run, I believe, by Tom Atkinson. (I further believe he died of brain cancer a few years ago, and there's now a memorial run named after him benefiting brain cancer research at UCLA.) I wonder that he didn't grab the name from that older establishment (#10). The location is now, I believe, a Subway.

Here's a wonderful cornucopia for you:
http://lileks.com/match/index.html

I just found your 50 Matchbooks on the internet. Enjoyed it very much as a UCLA grad from this time period (or just after). I still have lots of matchbooks from the 60s and 70s from the LA area. I would like to link to this article from my Web site www.matchbooktraveler.com. I have looked at the terms of use and it looks like just linking is ok but I thought I would ask first. Thank you, Jeffrey Williams

Of course its alright.

Check these out (see link).

Whoops! Here's the link: http://vintagematches.webs.com/