

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Wheeling and Matchbooks: A Perfect Match with Tony Paree
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 23 Jun, 2026 at 12:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Tony G. Paree’s fascinating journey began with a rediscovery of a basement bowl teeming with eye-catching matchbooks and their covers from places visited as a customer and tourist or procured as a collector. These tiny works of art promoting long-forgotten Wheeling restaurants, bars, banks, factories, other local businesses remind us of a once bustling Upper Ohio Valley. Tony is a native of Wheeling who spent 45 years working at Crone's Clothiers and became collector of local memorabilia with a commitment to saving the history that is found all around us. His other books include Victorian Trade Cards of Wheeling ( 2014) and Real Photo Postcards of Wheeling (2019).
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/wheeling/wheeling-and-matchbooks-a-perfect-match-with-tony-paree/200029828397313
- **Event Categories**: art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 4

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029828397313?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=wheeling-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Wheeling
- **state**: WV
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library
- **lat**: 40.063815838283
- **long**: -80.720057623965
- **full address**: Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library, 52-16th Street,Wheeling,WV,United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library (https://allevents.in/org/lunch-with-books-at-the-ohio-county-public-library/7284144)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 23 Jun, 2026 at 12:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library, 52-16th Street,Wheeling,WV,United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Wheeling and Matchbooks: A Perfect Match with Tony Paree ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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