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Pratt Homes shows how best to bury a time capsule

Builder gives a nod to New York with nostalgic containers

Take three metal containers packed with lots of nostalgic stuff, a tray of yummy cupcakes and a gorgeous, hot summer day.

These are the key elements served up by Pratt Homes Monday as the builder tipped its hat to the Big Apple.

To celebrate its Upper West Side community, Pratt buried three time capsules underneath the stone pillar at the front entrance of its condo complex located on Ferndale Dr. South.

Pratt and the homeowners submitted personal items for the containers that will be dug up in 50 years.

"We've got wedding photos, sealed letters, newspaper clippings, grocery receipts, ticket stubs from the Barrie Colts, Raptors and Blue Jays," said Pratt Homes' Basia Bukowski. "All these containers will be opened 50 years from today.  It's very special."

An engraved stone was to be placed over the time capsule with instructions how and when to open it in half-a-century.

The stone pillars at the entrance to both the Upper West Side and Manhattan, a sister community across the street, were inspired by the Cleopatra's Needle monument in New York City, which also has time capsules planted underneath. 

The Manhattan's time capsule was buried in April 2012 and will be opened in 2062.

Pratt Homes Todd Palmer says the five decades time-frame is a statement on the enduring nature of Pratt abodes.

"This will still be here in fifty - even one-hundred years," Palmer said.