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Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America (book) - FYI!


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Just felt like sharing a passage from the topic titled book by Frederick Lewis Allen, perhaps you'll find it interesting:

 

Way back in the summer of 1929 , just before the Panic, a bacteriologist named Arthur G. Sherman had built for his family a little house on wheels which could be towed behind his car on vacations. It attracted so much favorable attention wherever he went that he built a few more, and exhibited one of them at the Detroit Auto Show in 1930. Presently he was manufacturing them on an expanding scale, other manufacturers were leaping in, householders with a knack for tools were building their own trailers in their backyards. By 1936 the number of house trailers on the road was estimated by Automotive Daily News at 160,000. On New Year's day, 1937, Florida observers reported that these contrivances were crossing the state line at the rate of 25 an hour. Roger Babson declared that within twenty years half the population of the US would be living in them. What more lovely vision could there be.... than the vision of the coming of a carefree era when the restless American could sell his house, climb into his trailer, and go forth to live the life of the open road?

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Linda, I had to look that up about the 20's and Ford, etc. and then I found this interesting link with great pictures.... perhaps they were better built back then, hmmmm. http://blog.rvshare.com/rv-history/

Thank You for sharing, enjoyed the read!

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