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education through preservation
Step inside the Skirvin Hilton Hotel, Balliet’s or any trendy restaurant, and chances are there will not be any customized matchbooks provided by the host. But throughout much of the 1900s, matchbooks were commonplace in the hospitality industry – and were a thriving conduit for advertising around the world. According to the American Matchbook Collecting Club, tens of thousands of...
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For Oklahoma City, Dolores Restaurant is just a memory – another great restaurant that faded away after being a local favorite for decades. But for Los Angeles, the legend continues. Confused? This story starts back when drive-through restaurants were brand new – an innovation prompted by the sudden explosion of cross country automobile travel. It was in the early 1920s that...
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