The Village Squire, 1981-10, Page 6THIS SPACE
OR CORRESPONDENCE
by Dean Robinson
THIS SPACE FOR aDDRESS irt"
Old Postcards:
There's not a lot of attention paid to
"paper nostalgia." Never has been.
It's not up there with coins, stamps and
model airplanes.
No matter. Stan Faulhaf er, of Strat-
ford, goes about his hobby quietly and
contentedly.
The Normandy Drive resident, who
retired a few years ago after spending the
last 11 years of his working life as a
dispatcher with the Stratford police
department, collects old postcards. And
scrapbooks. and old books. and old
papers, and small silk flags.
He's really hot on paper items,
particularly postcards.
"When my mother died in 1974 she had
about a hundred of them in a drawer in one
of her dressers," he says. "That's what
got me started. It's something 1 do in the
winter time. I don't worry too much about
it in the summer."
That's not totally true, because Stan has
been known to spend more than one sunny
afternoon roaming through the flea
markets in the Bruce Preninsula while
vacationing at Barrow Bay.
"There aren't many cards at Flea
markets anymore, at least not that 1 can
afford. Antique dealer have pushed the
price way up," he says.
In six years Stan has expanded his
collection to between 4,000 and 5.000
cards. about 150 of them dealing with
Stratford, but a great many more
depicting early days in several south-
western Ontario communities. Mostly
they are from the late 1800s and early
1900s.
There are street scenes, disaster
scenes, exhibitions, parks, special events.
native people, girls, ships, planes,
PG. 4 VILLAGE SQUIRE/OCTOBER 1981