Enhance Cities (10)

Public awareness series comissioned by "Akce Z" (Action Z), a state-sponsored, community-driven program to promote volunteered labor to improve local surroundings. Most of the labels feature the slogan “Enhance cities and towns”.

Produced by: Solo Sušice match factory, Czechoslovakia.
Year: 1961
Vintage 1961 Czech matchbox label showing a young girl with pigtails and a red neckerchief on a green background. Produced by the Solo Sušice match factory to promote the civic improvement initiative known as Action Z.
"Enhance cities and towns – Pioneers, first in Action Z"
Vintage 1961 Czech matchbox label showing a stylised graphic of houses, trees, a wooden fence, and a clean village green. Produced by the Solo Sušice match factory to promote clean, beautiful village squares.
"Enhance cities and towns – A clean village green beautifies the village"
Vintage 1961 Czech matchbox label showing the outline of a house enclosing a potted blooming geranium plant. Produced by the Solo Sušice match factory to promote clean homes and pleasant domestic environments.
"A clean house, pleasant living – Enhance cities and towns"
Vintage 1961Czech matchbox label showing a rooted plant and a cross-section of a cut tree trunk on a green background. Produced by the Solo Sušice match factory to promote forest preservation and ecological health.
"Forests must live"
Vintage 1961 Czech matchbox label showing red apples hanging from branches and a young plant sprout with exposed roots, on a green background. Produced by the Solo Sušice match factory to promote growing home orchards and crops for health and utility.
"Enhance cities and towns – For health and utility"
Vintage 1961 Czech matchbox label showing stylised window frames filled with small potted flowers on red window sills, on a green background. Produced by the Solo Sušice match factory to encourage residents to place flowers in windows to beautify urban environments.
"Enhance cities and towns – Flowers in windows make the environment more pleasant"
Vintage 1961 Czech matchbox label showing a park landscape featuring a water fountain, a red park bench, and a trash bin. Produced by the Solo Sušice match factory to promote clean public parks for community relaxation.
"Enhance cities and towns – Clean parks, pleasant relaxation"
Vintage 1961 Czech matchbox label showing a bucket, brush, and soap alongside a large blooming wildflower in front of village houses, on a green background. Produced by the Solo Sušice match factory to promote household hygiene, health, and civic pride.
"Enhance cities and towns – Cleanliness, health, joy"
Vintage 1961 Czech matchbox label showing a playground setting with a scooter, sand pit and bucket, on a green background. Produced by the Solo Sušice match factory to encourage building new playgrounds for the benefit of children.
"Enhance cities and towns – New playgrounds for the joy of children"
Vintage 1961 Czech matchbox label showing a sports running track loop enclosing gardening/construction tools like a wheelbarrow, rake, and shovel. Produced by the Solo Sušice match factory to promote building community sports facilities for young people.
"Enhance cities and towns – New sport fields for our youth"

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