Reddish orange matchbook cover with name of business in bright red with black outline. Other text in black. On back of cover is a photograph of the interior of one of the caves. 40 matches in an unused matchbook.
The 10 matchbooks in this donation reflect tourism in the 20th century as well as the types of restaurants and tourist attractions around in Colorado between the 1970s and 1990s. These matchbooks were collected from: Iron Horse Resort & Retreat (Winter Park), Cave of the Winds (Manitou Springs), Far View Lodge (Mesa Verde National Park), Bennett’s Pit Bar-B-Que (Arvada), Jose Muldoon’s Food & Drink (Boulder), Graystone Castle (Thornton), Canterbury Inn (Denver), Bayou Bob’s (Denver), George McKelvey’s Comedy Club (Denver), and Wellshire Inn, also known as Leo’s Place (Denver).
Front: WORLD'S HIGHEST CAVE … / CAVE / OF THE / WINDS / BE SAFE CLOSE COVER BEFORE STRIKING / MANITOU SPRINGS / COLORADO
Top: OPEN ALL YEAR
Bottom: UNIVERSAL MATCH CORP., ST. LOUIS 1-800/325-8165
Interior: HALL OF THE / PRESIDENTS / WAX MUSEUM / 1050 S. 21st Street / Colorado Springs, Colorado