O'Dwyer Matchbooks

ID: 1494 ~ Source: Al Kleindienst, private collection.
This file appears in: O'Dwyer's Club

These matchbooks from gaming clubs owned by the O'Dwyers are not only a collectors item today, but were an important advertising method while the clubs were in operation.

This file appears in: O'Dwyer's Club

By Christina Lawrence
According to Al Kleindienst, a long-time resident of the Greater New Orleans Area, the O'Dwyer family opened a gambling club at 100 Jefferson Highway in 1949 called "O'Dwyer's." The O'Dwyer brothers…