A Complete RV History

cyndi · Oct 9, 2015

"...Car lovers and nature lovers joined together in 1910 to create customized cars with lockers and bunks and inventive water holding tanks. During the 1920’s as the roads started to improve RV enthusiasm started to grow..."

http://blog.rvshare.com/rv-history/

jimindenver · Oct 9, 2015

Interesting. Thank you

eDJ_ · Oct 9, 2015

The year is 1916 and here is Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and Harvey Firestone camping while using Ford
built specialized vehicles for the purpose.

Youtube video

1920 era Ford Camper at Greenfield Village

Mid Teen's version

Here is Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone,
and President Warren G. Harding together at camp.
They called themselves the "Vagabonds"

A couple of Youtube videos from a Joel McCrea & Veronica Lake movie, "Sullivan's Travels". About finding
America in the Great Depression of the 1930's and going out in a super de lux "Land Yacht" opposed to going
out on one's own. This is some of the funniest stuff regarding being on the road in an RV I know of.

highdesertranger · Oct 9, 2015

very cool, thanks Cyndi. highdesertranger

desertnomad · Oct 13, 2015

Cool, interesting history. Looking back makes you wonder what in the world were they thinking? Fast forward to today and some of the modern rigs make me think the same thing. My short and pre-RV history starts with camping under the stars which sucked when it rained. Then discovered this amenity called a tent. Then years later got a pickup truck w/canopy, through in a mattress and was safe & content. This became too impractical and due to back issues then graduated to a 30' RV. Then we got too much stuff and wanted to take everything with us on camping trips so naturally we upgraded to a larger RV. Which is where I sit today contemplating my next life altering adventure once I hit retirement age.

SoulRaven · Oct 17, 2015

The only item on my "bucket" list is visiting the RV History Museum in IN: http://www.rvmhhalloffame.org/ I grew up in that area but haven't been back in 40 years. I enjoy looking at the history. I looked through old magazine articles online with plans for people to build their own trailers and saw photos of the happy families taking off and sometimes an article where the son was remembering the fishing trips with their dad. Ah, "simpler" times.