Past Galloping Bungalows Curiosity Continues Today

Many trailerites, like ourselves, take pride and enjoyment displaying and sharing our vintage trailers at events and rallies or while just camping with friends. Many of us have hobbies and collections representing vintage trailer memorabilia that we also share on certain occasions. Here's an excerpt from the trailer book, Galloping Bungalows, discussing the early interest in trailers (before they were vintage) "walking through them and marveling at their compactness, their neatness, their toylike quality":

A Home on Wheels

[We enjoy collecting ephemera when it involves the history of trailers and early trailer houses (motorhomes). We’ve had this little pamphlet for a number of years. It truly describes what a road trip was about when traveling in a recreational vehicle of its time.  I’ve copied the poem from the brochure word for word. Word usage, punctuation and spelling have not been changed in remembering and respecting the fact that it was written in 1919].

1936 AIRSTREAM SILVER CLOUD: THE OLDEST FACTORY-PRODUCED AIRSTREAM STILL IN EXISTENCE?

IS THIS 1936 AIRSTREAM SILVER CLOUD (Wooden) THE OLDEST AIRSTREAM FACTORY-PRODUCED TRAILER STILL IN EXISTENCE? (Portions of this article appeared in the January-February 2017 of the Vintage Camper Trailers Magazine.