This scrapbook page preserves matchbooks collected from restaurants, nightclubs, and travel hubs across California in the 1940s, including the Fred Harvey restaurant at Los Angeles Union Station, San Francisco's Bal Tabarin nightclub, and venues in Santa Ana and Sacramento near Army Air Forces training installations. Matchbook collecting was a common wartime pastime, and such souvenirs offer a glimpse into the off-duty social life of servicemen and civilians during World War II. Project: 218630