Is it the allure of the open road, a
longing for yesteryear, or a sense
of repurposing the old and making
it new again? For me it is all three.
The love of vintage trailers hit
me young. My grandparents had a 1960
Coastline trailer and I used to camp with
them all the time as a youngster growing
up. When chit chat during Sunday dinner
got boring at grandma and grandpa’s
house, I would grab the trailer keys and
sit in it playing house until dinner was
ready. The look, the smell, the honey
glow of a flashlight on the wood, it all
means home to me.
I hooked up my trailer and happily hit
the road from Colorado to head out to
be part of the Palm Springs Modernism
Show hosted by Mona Heath. The show is
a part of the Modernism Week; an annual
celebration of midcentury modern
design, architecture, art, fashion and
culture that takes place in February in the
Palm Springs area of Southern California.
This year, sixty stunning vintage trailers
were set up and on display in the Hilton
Hotel Car Park from 10am to 3pm on the
Saturday. As always, there was a wide
variety of trailers to admire with everyhing
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