Throughout the year
2000, we highlight interesting items from Prattsville history.
This is Number
4 in our new feature series.
This used
to be a town where many people from the city spent their summers and they
all sent postcards back home ... they also sent postcards to each other
...
... in the early 1900's, the postcard was the e-mail of the day. For
a green penny stamp, a Ben Franklin - either full face or side view, one
could send off a message in the morning: "Let's eat at the hotel
tonight". A confirmation by return mail could arrive in the
afternoon, provided the distance was short enough.
This page shows a collection of old Prattsville postcards from the
collection of Milton Ballard, owner of Shirley's Pizza on Main Street,
Prattsville. Stories about some of the postcard views were written
by Muriel Pons, Prattsville Town Historian, with the help of Perry
Chatfield, Betty O'Hara and Theresa Schaefer.
