Vintage Mobile Home Series: 1953 Silver Star

Hello I have a 1952 or 53*Trailerized home by Midstates Corp. and was wanting to find out some specifications on it weight and otherwise if you could provide that please or let me know where to find it

I just picked up a 26 foot Elcar, 1956? Needs restoration but not a lost cause.

Hi!
Was so thrilled to (finally) find a similar vintage
home to one I have been trying to place from
years ago. This Silver Star isn’t quite the same, but maybe you can help me narrow it down from my memory! The mobile I’m looking for is one I lived in in 1964/65, in Albuquerque, NM. Keeping in mind the shape of this Silver Star, it had the purple streak on the outside w/aluminum, two bedroom (one w/full size bed at middle, other at rear w/bunk beds); main door opening ‘between’ living area and kitchen; and oil burning heat stove next to kitchen table across from stove. The most interesting feature was that the ‘doors’ for the closets opened even with the width of the hallway to make private ‘rooms’ (ie: the master bed and the bathroom). The ‘master’ bedroom was next in line from the kitchen, and seems it was raised on a platform that extended (next) to the bathroom that was also raised. Little tub, but otherwise the bathroom complete. Seems there was a pocket door between the bath and rear bedroom, so that the bath could be completely closed off on that end. The rear door was off the end bedroom. There was built-in drawers, vanity, and closet along the outside wall, and the typical
light wood paneling, tip out windows. I am trying to find a printed floor plan for this layout,
as well as the make/model/year It was an 8×35, as I recall. Can you help?

Hi Crystal; I have been a fan of your site for a long time. You mention Kozy above; I assume you mean Kozy Koaches. Kozy also had a sister model called a Silver Dome. I have a 1947 Silver Dome that we are going to restore. It still has the original lamp shades in the bedroom, glass fronted kitchen cabinets and little tub in the bath room It even has the original refrigerator, that was still working when the trailer was last parked. From looking at other models, it seems the main difference between the Kozy and the Silver dome is the polished aluminum top on all the ‘Domes’.
We lived in a 40′ (37.5 actual floor space) 1943 2 bdrm for many years. I loved that trailer. It was identical to the long long trailer but had an over sized bathtub, roomy and plentiful metal kitchen cupboards, a built in curio cabinet and beautiful curved wooden valances on the windows.It had a walk through bedroom with closets along the whole wall, then the bath room and a rear master bedroom. The bathroom was set on a raised platform and the water pipes from the kitchen to the bathroom were all inside so they never froze-even when it got well into the minus’s. I have forgotten the model, but the exact same trailer (except it had a rear bathroom) was the trailer used as a dressing room by Marilyn Monroe when making the misfits. Hers had the same valances, curio cabinet and metal kitchen cabinets as ours. It was on display for a number of years in Reno Nevada. The movie was filmed in Stage Coach Nevada, about 40 miles from Reno.
I am so happy to see you don’t make the mistake so many do in confusing old travel trailers with with old house trailers. House trailers never had holding tanks and rarely had dining booths. Although the very first travel trailers didn’t have holding tanks either, they usually had a dining booth that converted to sleeping and a bed on the ends with a little kitchen in the middle. Then the travel trailers added water tanks with a hand pump, but house trailers never did. They were always designed for a hose hookup and a sewer line. Our old trailer was one of my favorite places to live in.Probably the best organized and useful space I have ever lived in. Unfortunately we bought property where we weren’t allowed to live in it. We parked it, but later we moved to another property and left the old trailer on the property we had vacated but still owned. It was so badly vandalized I doubt we will ever restore it. We currently reside on a remote ranch and our house is a 1963 modular (which means a mobile home that was set on a foundation and the axles were removed) double wide-20 x60 with a 20×30 2 story addition. We didn’t know it was a modular until we had a plumbing leak and crawled underneath and found the metal chassis. This house is so big that I find myself longing to get back into another old 8 wide. The silver dome is really too small-its only 19 feet. However we have another old 40 footer that is in slightly better shape than the vandalized trailer, but not nearly as well designed and appointed. Who knows; maybe one day soon I’ll be sending pictures of our project trailer.

Hi Crystal.
Thank you for answering so quickly to me about routing pex. It was very helpful along with other homework I did. I now know how I will do it.
I have another question if I may? I bought this trailer for cheap- it needed work and the park had so many other projects. The former tenants thought they had a leak for the hot water heater, so they ripped out floors and walls. That wasn’t it! I guess they found out that it was under the tub so they took out all that plus and gutted the bathroom! Is there someplace or do you have complete directions on how to put another bath tub in? Ty in advance. Jeannie