Extra Wide Load, Utah, 1955
A slat-sided, green-gabled house seems well balanced on a flatbed trailer fixed to a shiny bright-eyed truck. Wide set exterior rear view mirrors give the driver a view of nothing behind him but twin ten pane windows. One window is up the other down. This extra wide load gives motor home a whole new meaning. Or is this a house trailer?
Speeding tire tracks polish stripes in two-lanes of jagged-edged asphalt dividing a deserted desert. Landscaping by Mother Nature. Eats, curios ands a roadside geyser are noted for all who pass by and hopefully don’t run into the road hog home away from home!
Here’s to motor homes, house trailers and YOU!
Possibly a former barracks building being transported to a new home. A lot of military barracks originally constructed were sold off in the mid-1950s. In my hometown in NJ there were two small houses across from the public library which had been moved barracks. Sadly one of the home’s cheap foundation crumbled in the early 1990s and it was a total loss giving way to a maxed out variance 3 story McMansion on the small plot.
Hey Charles, love your site. Met you at Tulsa. Colin from Melbourne, Australia. Had a black beard and showed you my 57 plymouth pics…..hope you remember……….??? !!!!
Drove to CA after Tulsa but didn’t stop long in LA. Will plan another US trip soon I hope. At least for the reunion in 5 years. Really dig the whole retro concept you and your website display. Hope you are well. Am going to a Shag art exhibition in Melbourne next Friday.
Regards……….Colin
Your words touch upon me a…well, given the exestential ( no beginning, no end, no reason) landscape of the medium upon which you choose to rely, I grant you congratulations; you got my attention. i hope that what was what you were aiming for.