Slide of the Week: July 27th, 2007
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!
Charles Phoenix
Los Angeles
July 2007
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July 29th, 2007 at 1:35 am
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.
August 1st, 2007 at 10:33 pm
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