Ready to Roll
A Celebration of the Classic American Travel Trailer
Keister, Douglas
Gellner, Arrol
Hardcover
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Americans in search of family oriented domestic travel, safe and inexpensive, are buying trailers and RVs in record numbers. At the same time-with fantasies of Lauren Bacall sipping an extra-dry Gibson against a gleaming metal doorway in Palm Springs and Lucy and Desi's madcap Long, Long Trailer trip-they crave the vanished luxury and quirkiness of antique auto trailers. Those simpler, slower days of freedom and security are being recaptured in trailers from all eras, rescued and restored as living, road-ready Americana. Ready to Roll, with more than 300 color photographs, taps into this trend in gloriously illustrated and insightfully chronicled retro style. Here is the complete evolution of the trailer, from the utilitarian Covered Wagon to the aristocratic Airstream and Aerocar Land Yacht to the homemade Hammer Blows of the Depression. Here too are the people who drove these cherished chariots and increasingly lived in them in trailer parks, from the stereotypically seedy to the likes of Bing Crosby's exclusive Blue Skies Trailer Village. The amazing camaraderie of groups like the Tin Can Tourists marks the trailer phenomenon as a major segment of American consciousness and history.
AUTHOR BIO
Arrol Gellner is an architect, a syndicated columnist based with the San Francisco Chronicle, and an author of Red Tile Style and Storybook Style. Douglas Keister has taken photographs for nine previous Viking Studio books including Red Tile Style, Storybook Style, and America's Painted Ladies.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0670030554
ISBN(13-digit): 9780670030552
Dewey Decimal: 629.226/0973
Library of Congress: 2003041150
Book Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 192
Paper Weight (lb): 1.64 lb
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