Antique & Vintage Postcards

A tidy row of white-trimmed green-roofed motor cottages lines a gravel drive canopied by full summer trees, bright with flower borders and a pair of Adirondack chairs — the promised comfort of The Green Lantern Motor Court, ten miles north of Albany on U.S. Route 9, beckoning weary postwar motorists with its AAA seal of approval. A split-image lower panel reveals the interior: a cheerful chartreuse-walled room with maple furniture, a pink-covered twin bed, a braided rug, and a gleaming white tile bath glimpsed through an open door — everything a family needed on a Route 9 drive between New York City and the Adirondacks. The reverse, printed by Tichnor Bros. of Boston, invites reservations through Mrs. Roy C. Travis at Loudon Road, Cohoes, N.Y. A penciled notation reads "Albany 5—." This unposted linen card is a charming artifact of American motor-court culture at its mid-century peak.