Trailer living

[bvf]

Hi guys I am obsesed with collecting and this is my old baby ..It is a 1931 to 33 house of tomorrow ,,from the chicago worlds fair.. It was on display there ….On the side it say casa de manana ..which in spanish means house of tomorrow..I have some things I dont ever know what to do with ..I have collected trailers for over 40 years …I think I started the white trash movement back in 1980 when i 1st started collecting house trailers..Im only down to 3 at the moment but have restored some and now I think i kept the best …This originally had a port hole window but the hippies in the 70s cut a square man,,,mark in az..

 

[beekeyknee]

You could live here with Babs Johnson in Phoenix, Maryland.

 

[toploader55]

I hopw the Egg Man got out in time !!!

 

[sudsmaster]

Looks like a poor man's Airstream prototype. Bet it leaks like a sieve... probably built on 2x4 frame... think real Airstreams are built on curved aluminum frames...

 

What it should have looked like...

 

 

 

[bvf]

better built

funny this was built in an air line factory ,,,it has no leaks and i think its the best …i collected trailers when no one did .. all myy airstreams are in collections ..airsteam is all people know there are much better trailers ..airsteams are like maytags thery are every where ..this is like a rare bendix washer..

 

[petek]

I always thought Airstreams were the coolest looking trailers.  They were one of the things (like VW bugs) we'd count to relieve the boredom on our camping trips to god know where as kids. 

 

[petek]

I'm thinking it's the Henry Ford Museum where they have Lindberghs trailer. I know I saw it somewhere and that's the only place I can think it might have been. 

 

[ovrphil]

Shades of a dome structure

I love Airstreams, but don't my knowledge of trailers is fairly...nil. That Casa De Manana is really a collector's dream. It's now what we'd want to use, but I'll take your word for it, that build quality exceeds or rivals anything by Airstream.
Cool collectible!

Looking at my Domebuilder's Handbook that I purchased new back in the 60's, that trailer would fit just perfect, parked next to a Bucky Fuller dome! I like your interest in trailers. I wish I had room to collect a few. There are so many interesting trailers out there, vintage and newer.

 

[d-jones]

Of the various vintage travel trailers Vagabonds are my favorites. This is a thirty five foot Vagabond from 1953.

 

[circlew]

That yellow Vagabond reminds me of the trailer my parents had in the early '50s. I think theirs was a dark green. Not sure, as I haven't looked at the pictures lately. They had it when my dad was in the Army during the Korean War, and lived in Elizabethtown, KY (Ft. Knox) and then Leesville, LA (Camp Polk). I never saw it in person, as they sold it when dad was sent overseas and mom went back to Hattiesburg, MS to work at Bell Telephone. They had a smaller one for a month or so that only had an ice box, no refrigerator, but didn't like it.

 

[hydralique]

Boise . . .

Maybe Babs got a shiny new Vagabond or Streamline when she moved to Boise after she lost her home to arsonists in Phoenix, Maryland. That yellow one would look really festive with a herd of pink flamingos out front! At least the arsonists were caught and given a proper trial and conviction

 

[sudsmaster]

Sorry, but that '31 "House of Tomorrow" screams home built hokey. I can't imagine it's considered well made. No fenders for the wheels, and looks like scuff marks on the exterior where the poorly placed wheels rubbed against it on bumps. There's no visible door, and how would any door seal against wind and rain with that configuration? Sliding door? I doubt the 31 technology would be able to seal that gaping maw. Little to no effort to bend the sheet metal into an aerodynamic shape. Maybe it's like the early stealth fighter jets, which have a boxy shape with a lot of flat surfaces, to reflect radar in strange ways?

 

As a conversation piece, it's great though.

 

 

[tolivac]

Yes,Remember the Airstream campers.A freind of my Dads had one when I was little.Never traveled in it-but went in it when it was parked at a campground.
The broadcast agency I work for had an Airstream based moble feild studio unit.On one of its journeys-the engine blew-and the vehicle was towed to the Wash DC plant where it sat for several years-then the equipment was stripped out of it-I was helping.then what was left was towed to a scrapyard.SAD.Was a nice vehicle.Wasn't a trailer but a RV type device.
The travel camper industry was hurt by the high gas prices-folks didn't want to drag their Airstreams or other camper trailers around anymore.Winebago and Starcraft were laying off people and threatening to close their manufacturing sites.Then came 9-11 weirdly that revived the camper industry-Both Starcraft and Winnebago hired people back and stepped up production-folks were using the campers again rather than flying.Nothing like a disaster to revive an industry.

 

[vacerator]

Too bad for Babs Johnson,

and the Marvel's!
You know Edith Massey had a vintage resale store in Fells Point, don't you?
Di vi~na veja no~sa cosa eterna lotsoria.

 

[cfz2882]

"The long,long trailer"

anyone know what the trailer was in that mid 1950s movie? I recall there was a two wheel dolly attached to the trailer that the car was hitched to-Poor(54?) mercury convertible had enough burden to pull before wifey started filling the traier with rocks and nic-knacks bought along the way I heard somewhere that a Lincoln convert (with a bigger engine)subbed in for the Merc in certain heavy pulling scenes

 

[vacerator]

Long Loing trailer make;

A "Constellation"? I'm only guessing, have to see of it is on youtube.

 

[vacerator]

No, it's a "New Moon"

built by Redman travel coach Co.
Gotta run, heading over to Black's beach this morning.

 

[chachp]

That 31..

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 12pt;">What made it the house of tomorrow?  I would have loved to have seen what it looked like on the inside.  That vababond is beautiful.  Does that belong to someone here?</span>

 

[circlew]

They even had a model called the "I Love Lucy"!

http://www.americanrvcompany.com/Vintage-Camper-of-the-Week--The-New-Moon_b_56.html