Vintage Mobile Homes

Today's find comes from a Facebook friend and fellow mobile home fan, Steve. He was kind enough to send us a super cool picture of a 1964 trailer he saw online and we knew we had to know more. Manufactured by Kit Manufacturing Company, this one bedroom/1 bath trailer sits in Ramon Mobile Home Park in Palm Springs, California, and was most…

When Mid-States Corporation built the 1952 Executive Flagship dubbing it the world's most exciting mobile home and office, boy, they were not lying! Mid-States was the largest trailer manufacturer in the world in the early 1950s, so this one-of-a-kind mobile home was a perfect rolling advertisement for the company. Mid-States had 6 factories…

Mobile homes are our passion and this vintage trailer combines two of our favorite things, mid-century design and a completely restored vintage mobile home. We found this vintage gem on Curbed and it was just too great not to share. Mid-Century Design Interior Built in 1958, and boasting a small addition, this is one of the original tiny…

Neon signs and mobile homes have a lot in common. Both began in the early 1900s, both were once symbols of a fun time, both suffered from leaked industry secrets and patent issues, and both were eventually stigmatized as symbols of seedy establishments. With so much in common, it seems fitting that so many mobile home park signs used neon…

There have been dozens of unique vintage mobile homes over the years, some more awesome than others. In this article, we take a look at vintage mobile homes that were ahead of their time. Understanding Trailer Shows Trailer shows were popular events all over the nation. Movie stars and performers entertained attendees while builders…

Look what $45,000 can buy you in Palm Springs, California! This 1966 mobile home may be small on space but it is big on style. It's a smaller home measuring in at only 10'x40' with 400 square feet of living space but would be perfect for a wannabe CA beach bum like me. The price of this colorful retro mobile home seems very reasonable as does…

If you've paid any attention to home fashion recently you've probably heard the term mid-Century modern a time or two. When you think mid-century modern it's only natural to associate it with vintage mobile homes. That's probably because mobile homes hit their golden age in 1950s. Mobile homes were born of the petrochemical age as was mid-century…

Postcards were almost as important as the trailers when travel trailer first hit the scene. They were essentially the Facebook of the time. Families and friends traveling in their campers would send postcards to everyone they knew to let them know they were safe and having a wonderful time. A little deliberate bragging was always important too. In…

The history of mobile homes is fascinating and far better than any soap opera you could watch. The mobile home industry has faced more twists and turns and valleys and peaks than any other industry that I know. There have been political and social injustices, volatile and cyclical economies, and fighting and competition of all sorts going on…

A travel trailer was the ultimate accessory for the automobile owner in the early 1930s. Unfortunately, it wasn't so easy to buy a one. You could build your own trailer or you could pay someone to build one for you but both options were expensive. Thankfully, The Covered Wagon Company changed that when they began mass-producing their trailers in…