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We love vintage mobile homes and like to share articles about their history. From tents to the huge manufactured homes we have today, there were a lot of cool models and awkward steps in between. Learn about a few of them here.
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 of the most popular. … Read more
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 the trailer park. Related: … Read more
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 having an environmentally friendly … Read more
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 movement, a hobby, and … Read more
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 Man and in essence, … Read more
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 a great pick for … Read more
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 the way of life, … Read more
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 homes you can rent … Read more
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 ole’ man, who knows? … Read more
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 it for modern living … Read more