Our friend Cory asked Darryl the other night whether we had found anything interesting in the old structure. I'm pretty sure he was thinking a bag of old coins or some diamond bracelets. The usual things you find when you demolish an old house, right?
Well, there were no valuable finds unfortunately, but we did find this interesting match book which had somehow made its way into the bricks of the chimney.
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| The front of the match book |
My favorite part of this is his little matchstick legs, which, though skinny, must be super strong to hold up such a hefty body. And notice his crown, quite right for a king. The phone number gave us the clue about its age. We figured it was from around the mid-1940s, because the phone number only has 6 digits in it. The "AN" of ANgelus represent the first two digits of the phone number (2 then 6 on an old dial phone). Each neighborhood had its own 2-digit code, and this part of Los Angeles was called Angelus (but, as far as we can tell, only for the phone company).
The other thing we noticed was that the striker part of the matchbook is on the front. That's something you don't see any more. Today's matchbooks have the striker on the other side, so that even stupid people would have to work really hard to burn themselves. But not in the '40s. Presumably people were either more careful then, or just didn't mind when they burned their fingers. That would have been right before they walked uphill both ways in the snow . . .
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| Safety, who needs that? |
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