Vintage The Hop Nightclub Matchbook 🐰 Los Angeles Rabbit Logo, NOS Unused Label made_in_china and exactly this kind of

and exactly this kind of small novelty item that represents the commercial side of celebrity culture in the era

🏪 Dime-store nostalgia vignette

a plume of smoke rolling off the stack — drawn up at a riverfront where a paddle steamer waits in the distance and workmen heave freight beside the tracks

They were novelties — play objects

Vintage The Hop Nightclub Matchbook 🐰 Los Angeles Rabbit Logo, NOS Unused Label made_in_china and exactly this kind ofWhat Kind of Nightclub Sends a Rabbit in Sunglasses to Do Its Advertising? I've handled thousands of old matchbooks in my time cigar shops, diners, motor lodges, supper clubs, roadhouses and most of them play it safe. A name, an address, maybe a martini glass or a palm tree. Then every so often one crosses my table that just has attitude, and this one has it in spades. A cartoon rabbit, standing hip cocked and confident, arms crossed inside a sharp