My Ephemera Collection
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History
Here are a few matchbooks from area businesses.
The Images
All items are available with both front and back scans, and comments about what is written on the front or back, either by the user or by the publisher, are included below.
- Glesmann's Pharmacy Matchbook
- matchbook Top: "Glesmann's For moe than 30 Years Druggists at South Hadley Massachusetts" Spine: "Tel. HOLYOKE 6577" Back: "Light Lunches - That Good Coffee - Delicious Ices & Sodas" Merchants Industries Inc. Linden, NJ Dayton, OH
- Gate Hill Restaurant Matchbook
- matchbook Top: "Good things to eat at Gate Hill So. Hadley, Mass. Route 63 Tel. Northampton 511" Spine: "Unexcelled View" Back: "Midway between South Hadley and Old Hadley Mass. Dinners $1.00 and up" The Ohio Match Co. Wadsworth Ohio.
- Cowan's Drugs Store Matchbook
- matchbook Top: "Cowan's Drug Store Cor. Main and Bridge St. So. Hadley Falls, Mass. Phone: Holyoke 4624" and a "Prescription Specialists" logo. Back: "Your prescriptions carefully compounded by" and the "Prescription Specialists" logo. Universal Match Corp, Chicago.
- K&M Package Store Matchbook
- matchbook Top: "15 Bridge St. So. Hadley, Mass." Spine: "Private Parking Lot" Back: "K&M Package Store, Inc. Imported & Domestic Liquors Beers Wines Phone JE-4-0276 for free delivery!!" Diamond Match Div. Springfield, Mass.
- inside "K&M Package Store Features Outstanding Selection of Imported Wines & Liqueurs Your Choice of Cold Beer Large Private Parking Lot Just Phone In for Fast Free Delivery JE4-0276"
- Gate Hill Restaurant Matchbook
- matchbook Top: "Good things to eat at Gate Hill So. Hadley, Mass. Route 63 Tel. Northampton 511" Spine: "Unexcelled View" Back: "Midway between South Hadley and Old Hadley Mass. Dinners $1.00 and up" The Ohio Match Co. Wadsworth Ohio. Back is dated 1938 in pencil.
- Mount Holyoke College
- matchbook Top: A shield with the four class animals. Spine: blank. Back: "Mount Holyoke College"
- The Book Shop Inn
- matchbook Top: "The Book Shop Inn South Hadley, Mass. Telephone Holyoke 9531" Back: "The Book Shop Inn Rooms Luncheon Tea and Dinner" Merchants Industries, Inc. Dayton OH, Linden NJ.
- Mount Holyoke College
- matchbook Top: "Mount Holyoke College South Hadley Massachusetts" Back: "Student Alumnae Hall" Diamond Match Co., NYC.
- Hadleigh House
- matchbook Top: "Hadleigh House 489 Granby Road U. S. Route 202 South Hadley, Mass." Back: "Hadleigh House Early American Food & Drink / Publick Rooms for Receptions & Banquets" Maryland Match, Baltimore, Md.