Believe it or not, in Davis’ “Progressive” ‘70s-‘80s restaurants
and other public establishments “enabled” smoking with ashtrays and matchbooks.
At a recent estate sale, I came onto a cardboard box of
matchbooks that included about two dozen from Davis businesses.
Among them, six were from restaurants well known to and frequented
by Davis residents in the “progressive” decades. In my experience, these six
are “iconic.”
I have removed the matches from the six “books,” cut them
into viewable form, and pasted the result up on the page shown here.
For anyone living in Davis in that period, these matchbooks
are surely, a nostalgic “blast from the past.”
