The Movie Paterson Featured a Poem About Matches!
The Movie Paterson directed by Jim Jarmusch Features a Love Poem Inspired by Matches!
In the opening scene in the movie paterson, Adam Driver named Paterson plays a bus driver for the Paterson NJ Transit who breaks up the monotony of his life by writing original poetry based upon observations of the world around him.
The first poem that the film opens with that he writes is a Love Poem inspired by his collection of OHIO BLUE TIP matches (that was originally written in 1979 by the real poet Ron Padgett as a love poem to his wife).
The poem goes into great detail about his collection of household's match boxes, the construction of the match boxes and their match sticks and focuses intently on the color of the blue tip (match heads).
I've been a big fan of Jim Jarmusch - IMDb since his first indie film Stranger Than Paradise (1984) and matches have always played a part as a plot device in most of his films!
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For Immediate Release! TheMatchGroup Now Producing Custom "Retro Style" Feature Matches!
TheMatchGroup is Now Able to Produce Custom "Retro Style" Custom Printed Feature Matches for Your Business!
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Just like the sought after and highly prized vintage feature match books produced in the 1940's, '50's & '60's, TheMatchGroup is now offering Branded matchbooks with CUSTOM PRINTED INDIVIDUAL MATCH STEMS! We're also able to produce custom die cut shaped individual match stems as well!
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FOUND! 1928 Oldsmobile Cover Letter Presenting Their Match Book Co-operative Dealership Advertising Program
In addition to being the President of TheMatchGroup, Joseph Danon has been a avid collector of vintage advertising Match books -amassing a collection comprised of tens of 1,000's of vintage advertising match books dating back over 100 years!
Well, while sifting through his collection, Mr, Danon found this well preserved Oldsmobile Motor Works Advertising Dept. Cover Letter dated March 12, 1928.
The purpose of the letter was to present a novel & low lost Match book advertising co-operative promotional program to be offered all Oldsmobile dealerships for them to participate by reserving the back of the match cover for them to advertise their dealership's name, address, telephone advertising copy under the OLDSMOBLE LOGO between the space above the tag line "A Match for Any Car". Depicted on the front cover was an eye catching full color illustration of a new Oldsmobile model for 1928 with the slogan "The FINE CAR OF LOW PRICE"l Match book.
The cost for the dealer to participate in this co-operative advertising program was the princely sum of .00415 per match book! To underscore the effectiveness of this co-operative advertising program, Oldsmobile as well as the majority of other car manufactures continued to offer this very effective and low cost advertising program to their dealerships up until the late 1980's!
Fast forward 87 years later and TheMatchGroup continues this produce similar co-operative advertising match programs by partnering with many national/international brands such as Davidoff of Geneva, Drew Estate and General Cigar as well as many larger Candle Manufactures using their branded match books and match boxes as means to share the cost of and advertise co-operatively with their retail outlets!
For all of your branded match book and Match box needs GoTo: TheMatchGroup or call one of our match makers at 800.605.7331 to design and order your own logo's matches today!
NEW Facebook Group Created for Fellow Lovers of Light (a.k.a. Match Collectors)
All you Hard Core (and not so Hard Core) Match Collectors out there, please be sure to check out my new FB Group "Advertising Match Book & Match Box Collectors Group"
Lots of great pics of a sampling of #matchbooks and #matchboxes that Joe Danon and #TheMatchGroup have produced over the past 28 years! Please feel free to post pics of examples from your match collections. Enjoy!
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Awesome post re. TheMatchGroup by DangerousMinds.net
Fantastic blog post re. TheMatchGroup by DangerousMinds.net. It's a very entertaining essay that does a great job of presenting TheMatchGroup by first pointing out our obvious mission of designing, selling and producing advertising matchbooks to a variety of businesses. Then the piece goes on to emphasize the history and artistry of match advertising by singling out the category of Pinup matchbooks as an example of the lasting influence that match advertising continues to carry the "torch" right up to this present day!
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