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Today vintage trailer camping fashion is very casual and depends when and where you are camping or rallying. Some rallies even have themes and costumes are worn. Other outings are just camping and visiting.

I always wanted to visit the Jack Sisemore RV Museum in Amarillo, Texas -- for quite a few years anyway. We road tripped to Kansas to pick up a part for our 1936 Ford pickup truck. Chuck surprised me with a side trip to the museum on our return home. Yes! it fulfilled my expectations and more . . . situated inside Jack's RV dealership, TRAVELAND. This small but efficiently utilized space held a welcoming and hands-on exhibit worth every moment of our time spent there.

Sunset Magazine, February 1937 Issue

Vintage trailer advertisements and article:

------100s OF POPULAR, RARE, AND UNIQUE TRAILERS IDENTIFIED------

Thompson, Bob & Jameson, Carl (2019). THE Illustrated Field Guide to VINTAGE TRAILERS. Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith Publishing.

A vintage trailer owner must have!

TRAILER WAYS & DAZE! Stop-Look-Laugh Cartoons Drawn by Hank Roesler Copyright by Hank Roesler 1955 Published by Trail-R-Club of America America's largest Publisher of books pertaining to trailers and mobile home living. This book is dedicated to the hundreds of thousands of happy trailer travelers and mobile home owners. Because of the wonderful freedom from care this new way of life brings, most of them have a marvelous sense of humor.

These cartoons appeared in various trailer magazines and publications before they were vintage...
   

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":

Tales Along EL CAMINO SIERRA

by David & Gayle Woodruff Copyright 2017 El Camino Sierra Publishing