The Snapshots in Time Collection

Scrapbook Page with Pasted Matchbook Souvenirs from Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Route 66, 1940s

Scrapbook Page with Pasted Matchbook Souvenirs from Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Route 66, 1940s

This scrapbook page continues a collection of matchbooks gathered from nightclubs, restaurants, and shops visited during the 1940s, spanning Los Angeles nightlife venues such as the South Seas and the famed Cocoanut Grove, a Route 66 roadside stop in Lyons, Illinois, and a Sacramento shoe retailer. Such collections were a popular pastime of the era and offer a personal travel record of the serviceman or civilian who assembled this album. Project: 218630