Dorchester Illustration 2553 Matchbook Covers
Order a house history for a house in Dorchester or Mattapan. Check it out on the house history page on the Dorchester Historical Society website.
We seldom see paper matchbooks anymore. Over the years some of Dorchester’s businesses and other organizations commissioned matchbooks with eye-catching graphic designs. Here are a few.
Winter Garden Skating Club. The club members skated at the Winter Garden Rollerway at 725 Gallivan Boulevard (approximately in the parking lot of the shopping strip where Staples is located on Gallivan Boulevard).
McDonough & Barrett Café, 291 Adams Street (corner of Adams Street and Park Street opposite the former Lucky Strike bowling alley).
Altshuler’s, 1485 Dorchester Avenue (corner of Dorchester Avenue and Faulkner Street in Fields Corner).
Louis Beauty Salon, 598 Columbia Road (opposite the Old Dorchester North Cemetery).