A long, long time ago, hospitals gave away matchbooks. You know, so people could light their cigarettes when they smoked inside the hospital. This one is from the old Concord Community Hospital (birthplace of actor Tom Hanks). The hospital is now John Muir – Concord.
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Born there in 1960!