Post #520239 by Cammo on Fri, Mar 26, 2010 9:55 PM

*"No, the guy who collected the matches smoked, and he used damn near every single match in all the thousands of books he had." *

Buzzy really should do a post on these matches.

Buzz got a giant truckload of matches from the guy's daughter. Included were matches from what looked like EVERY wild & swingin' hangout from Pasadena to Potsdam. This guy had a thing for Playboy Clubs, Tiki Bars and Vegas, baby, and this was his giant matchbook collection detailing his entire history as a national-level travelling salesman for Dow Chemical. It's scary.

It's scary cause he USED ALMOST EVERY MATCH to light up cigarettes. They're all gone. (Actually some are left and they're really cool) Buzzy and I tried to count how many matches were in an average book, then figure how many occupied a 4" cube, then multiply by 8 then by 3 to get a cubic foot, and by the box dimensions, then by how many boxes were in the daughter's truck, then double the result for a conservative estimate of how many cigs this guy COULD have smoked, but the numbers started going way past 1,000,000,000,000 so we gave up and played with Poki instead. Benson & Hedges should build a statue dedicated to this guy.

Buzz even has a little bag of stir sticks, unsmoked cigars, a Free Drink Poker Chip and a key to the Sahara Hotel from 1965 that he found - all in the bottom of the box. Pure Gold.