There is one place, though, where the Standard lives on: my matchbook collection...I couldn't resurrect the Jazz Standard, which originally opened in 1997, but at least I had this modest memorial to its life.
Since my early 20s, I've been amassing a collection of matchbooks from places I've gone, many of them now shuttered as casualties of the pandemic - a restaurant in my hometown of Portland, Ore., where I went for wood-fired pizza; the bar where I debriefed with friends and family after seeing movies...
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