Yellow Cab
Anchorage, Alaska

Maker: Alaska Advertizing Specialties  (Matchcover Collector: Taxi & Cabs)

The 1970s-vintage car suggests that this matchbook was produced near the end of the matchbook advertising heyday. However. . .

Alaska Cab
Anchorage, Alaska

Maker: Shedd Brown Alaska Anchorage AK  (Ebay: Carl's Match Covers)

. . .this matchbook appeared much more recently. According to the New York Daily News, "more and more" NYC cabs were beginning to accept credit cards as early as 1984 but the city did not require cabs to accept credit card payments until 2007.