Finding resorts, motels and campgrounds that rent out vintage mobile homes is one of my favorite parts of this blog. These attractions are perfect for those of us that can’t afford to own our own vintage mobile home just yet. They are also perfect just to get away from life for […]
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Our mobile homes are perfect examples of how modern technology and innovation can better our lives. From a small vardo being pulled by horses to our new triple wides, the mobile home industry is always improving and inventing ways to make living as comfortable and easy as possible. In a 1936 […]
Could you image the excitement and intrigue of new 1936 mobile homes? I sure can! Lot’s of people saving up for their dream home in an effort to be free and live simply and go anywhere they wanted. It’s a refreshed dream that is still in some of our hearts some […]
Innovation is what drives the manufactured home industry, one of the best innovations was fold up homes. While I wouldn’t classify these particular homes as true mobile homes (no axle is attached), I do consider them to be the pre-fab’s of yesterday. Related: Expandable Mobile Homes: The First Double Wides. The concept […]
Vintage mobile home photos and stories aren’t the easiest topics to find. There were several magazines that catered to mobile home owners back in those good ole days but like all great things, they came to an end in the mid-1960’s. Trailer Life and Trailer & Mobile Home Living were 2 […]
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) Ansel was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park but he captured a serious called Life at Olympic Trailer Park, these 1939 trailer park photos captured life in […]
Tiny House Blog was one of the first blogs to feature mobile homes in a positive light. They were small by design and green by accident. Remodeling and updating them became the frugal shortcut to living well. Of all the things that could lift the trailer trash stereotype, being green and […]
Owning a top of the line vintage camper or mobile home, like a Spartan or AirStream, puts you in a very cool club. There’s a huge fan base driving online communities and blogs dedicated to them all. Restoring and decorating these wheeled wonders are all the rage. It’s a fad, a […]
What do you get when you combine an Airstream with an interior designer that had never been camping before? An Awesome Airstream, of course! Rachel Horn is a popular interior designer that co-owns Rachel Horn Interiors along with her husband and partner, Justin Kreizel. They were going to their first Burning […]
Cleopatra’s Trailer Sold at Auction! The 1963 film, Cleopatra, with Elizabeth Taylor, was a disaster by all measures. It was over budget, overproduced, and overacted and is considered one of the biggest flops in American film history and almost bankrupted 20th Century Fox. Still, it has its moments and can be […]
The manufactured homes of today are a direct descendant of the automobile era. The pulling power of a large engine made them possible. Before that our wheeled, moveable homes were limited to what a couple of strong animals could pull. When mass production of affordable cars with high towing capacity became […]
As you may already know, my ultimate daydream is pulling out of the drive way with a little canned ham behind me and hitting the open road. I want to tour America and see her in all her glory. I want to stay in campgrounds that have vintage campers and mobile […]
I plan to travel across the country with a small travel trailer visiting every tourist trap and every back road possible. I joke that I’m leaving the day my daughter goes off to college but I have every intention of pulling her right along with me. We may even take the […]
This 1959 Spartan Imperial Mansion, on top of it being a Spartan, is immaculate. It’s one of those homes that you will adore because it’s simple, it’s vintage and it’s as close to perfect as it can get. The owner did a perfect job of keeping its originality but still updating […]