he new nobody else was gonna do it for him. These kids today dont relize that yet. they get everything handed to them and want everything for free and dont think they need to work for it .
A genuine example of true craftsmanship. More importantly is the commitment by her father to keep the family together instead of him being away for an extended period of time for his work.
What a great dad! He kept everyone together and took care of them! Love it! He even made a way for his wife to have an organ! Wow! What happy memories she must have!
@eclemensen Where? On the road again! Just can't wait to see it on the road again. Cruising the highways and byways of this old land, my friend, and I can't wait to see it on the road again. I'd love to be driving along the Interstate and pass by that beauty taking it slow in the right-hand lane. I'd slow down too just to get a better look.
I grew up in a two story trailer. It was purchased this way. Had 2 bedrooms and a half bath upstairs a full bedroom downstairs and a full bathroom with a washing machine! This was in 1960 we were the envy of the trailer park.
I know people some times poke fun at living in a trailer but I have to say, this is really cool. I admire all the hard work that went into this to make it a home.
Proof workmanship back in the day was better than today. Aluminum outlasts any new materials today. Their joints, load bearing designs etc were spot on. The products were honest and didn't have planned obsolescence.
Please keep it in california where it wont get rusted out and destroyed. Such an awesome story and build. Your dad was awesome! The bump out for your mom, addition for you girls. He really tried to do his best for you all.
I was thinking how cool it is to still have your childhood home! Most people end selling when their parents pass but because she could move it she is able to keep it and pass it down to other generations
There is nothing to be ashamed of when living in a mobile home. I grew up in one and I loved it. Lived in houses and apartments too. Now I’m 57 and my daughter and I live in a beautiful 3 bedroom, 2 full bath mobile home. My sister and brother-in-law live in a 4 bedroom, 2 full bath doublewide that is gorgeous. They’ve been in theirs less time than I have mine and have already paid it off. Hoping to be able to get mine paid off soon as well.
SHE IS SOOOO LUCKY ....HER STORY REAMS OF HAPPINESS... HER MOTHER/FATHER WERE GREAT PARENTS...THEY HAD JUST ENOUGH TO MAKE LIFE THE GREATEST..... BLESS THIS FAMILY.. THANK YOU FOR THIS VID......
This is a great testament to a man that only had his trade and his hands to support the family he loved. He made it so he could move where the work was located. And be comfortable for his family, so he could make a living. This is a long lost psychology in today’s morality. I enjoyed hearing this story and seeing the structural work of art.
Wow, i'm so impressed with you dad's craftmanship of making your family home larger! In those days, they were built to last & last it did. I live in my 2005 40 ft one level, lol, 2 slide out motorhome. It's tiny home, but it's built a whole lot more duriable than some newer pull behind campers we've had.
I live in a mediocre motorhome because I lost my home in Hurricane Ida & I've loved Spartan for at least a decade. I've seen photos of this one on Pinterest and have been dying to see the inside. Thank you so much for this! It's so amazing! Her dad improved it while maintaining the original look, no easy feat! What a treasure! 🏆 ❤
I lived in an 1950-ish house trailer from birth to age 7, without any extensions. I would joke in later years that I learned to walk early because I could just extend my arms to either side and touch furniture or walls for stability. But we actually found ample space for comfortable living. I remember quite a bit of playtime and events from my preschool years that occurred in that small space. My parents would later recall entertaining up to four other adults for an evening, often with dinner. We transferred from the trailer when my father constructed a small 2-bedroom apartment inside our commercial buiding; we found the new quarters spacious. I found it very novel that there were now corners to turn to go from end to end in the new home.
I'm not interested in campers and RVs, but this popped up on TH-cam, and it looked as if there might be an interesting story attached to it. There was! Thanks for finding and sharing this. An interesting peek into how a family lived thanks to their creative dad.
Wow just amazing and awesome and heartwarming to know its still in the family, i really hope you have someone to pass this on to it needs to be in the family or a museum . ...just wow , and your dad built it too what a great job ........
An amazing work of Art,a true Craftsman. The lady looks like she had a good childhood living in the Trailer, very easy to pick up and move on,no need to worry about where you have to live at the next job site,park up and go to work,clear a little piece of ground and plant some vegetables. Good life.
What an adventuresome life your childhood was! Thank you for sharing your awesome home with us, Ms. Wallace - I love how your dad modified the trailer.
I live in a 2000 Forest River Park Model with double lofts. It'd been my "dream trlr" for many years. It's awesome to see what is basically my trlr's ancestor!
@@Chris_Troxler "True Americans" "When fathers worked hard" and that "sole provider" shit. Fuck that. That's insulting as fuck. It's also ignorant as fuck.
@@phatkatracing I'm not trying start a flame war, or whatever it's called, but I still don't see how her statement is insensitive, insulting or ignorant. Just saying that something is offensive doesn't make it true. Please expand upon your reasoning. Again, not trying to argue, just trying to get a better understanding.
@@Chris_Troxler She's saying that fathers don't work today, and that multi-income households are in some way wrong. She posted rhetoric. Rhetoric about "the good 'ol days." The good 'ol days are bullshit.
I know Shirley Wallace. She is a great person! I am glad to see your two-story Spartan featured here. Her Dad was a genius in how he re-built this 1953 Spartan. It is a one of a kind mobile home and well worth placing in a museum. Actually the first two-story or double-decker trailers showed up in about 1950. Spartan never built one so this is a rare double-decker. Other companies like Pacemaker and Stewart built double-deckers from about 1955 and well into the 1960s. The first pull-out appeared in about 1950 on the Rollohome mobile home. A couple of manufacutered experimented with pull-outs even earlier.
Ms shirley Wallace, Oh my! Absolutely lovely and wonderful and man i would love to have something like this! Spectacular! I am in visalia too and work for a medical transport company and am all over the valley and have never seen anything as great and as show stoppin as this here! Thank you for sharing and may God bless you with more memories in this. I wonder tho, have your own children or grandchildren ever expressed interest in being the proud owners of this one day?! I wouldve been begging for the pinkslip from day one lol ! Bye now!
that travel trailer did alot of traveling in its time.....her dad was a great builder to make that addition look like it was built from the factory like that
I agree! This trailer looks very cool, I could live in something like that very easily. And, first things first, I would paint that exterior and it would look fabulous!!! I love that shape!!! :) I love hearing her fond memories of her childhood and living there.
I love the fact that her Dad was so creative and fixed a really neat home for his family! I It reminds me of my Dad, we camped on a nearby lake a lot during my childhood. Over the years our "campers" grew from a two room tent to a converted school bus. We also expanded our watercraft from a two man rubber raft to a six passenger ski rig. We have many good memories and delightful stories about our lake homes and the people we met in those "good ole days". Lol gotta love the 60's and 70's
Lavena Russell Oh how cool to have a school bus!! Just like the Partridge Family!! lol It sure would be a lot more comfortable and roomy!! Yea,,it was fun being a teenager in the 70's. :) I have lots of great memories, too! Take care.
What a dream! To have a home that you travelled in and enough space for your growing family. Her father was awesome! My stepdad can barely build a garden box.
I drove an OTR tractor/trailer for years that was 13'6" --I wouldn't bat an eye towing this trailer across country with my old McNally maps and avoiding low overheads. Her father was a smart man and talented craftsman.
So glad Shirley got the old girl back. So rare to be able to do something like that. We lived in trailers too, for much of my child hood. Smaller and no facilities. Now I wish I had one of those trailers or even the railroad boxcar we lived in. Hope you get some use out of it again and can pass it on to a good caretaker. It's a gem. Especially that your dad built it up. Enjoy.
Wow! You can see she must have had such a close and loving family. And she still cherishes it. Shows that money and material things do not equal love or happiness. Would love to hear stories of her life.
Her dad is the reason we celebrate Fathers Day.
This is the truest statement!❤
A 3-bedroom, two-story travel trailer is simply amazing. Even more amazing that her father built on the second story himself.
It's not a travel trailer. It's a mobile home. Camper's are travel trailers.
DAD was pretty talented it appears. This must have been awesome in the 60's.
MrAzrancher m
MrAzrancher that was probably a really modern trailer at the time
MrAzrancher super talented
He was pretty handsome too
he new nobody else was gonna do it for him. These kids today dont relize that yet. they get everything handed to them and want everything for free and dont think they need to work for it .
A genuine example of true craftsmanship. More importantly is the commitment by her father to keep the family together instead of him being away for an extended period of time for his work.
What a great dad! He kept everyone together and took care of them! Love it! He even made a way for his wife to have an organ! Wow! What happy memories she must have!
Ruth Sheller much better guy than me.i would have got her a harmonica.
Ruth Sheller I cried at this tru definition of a great dad and family
Rollo Larson too funny - you got me
cry’in here!!
The dad was way ahead of his time.
@@popiscoolnow 😂 An honest man is a good man. 👍
I really hope somebody restores it, and it ends up in some kind of museum. It's a treasure, please don't let it disappear.
I second that.
Wow amazing history thanks for sharing.
@eclemensen Where? On the road again! Just can't wait to see it on the road again. Cruising the highways and byways of this old land, my friend, and I can't wait to see it on the road again.
I'd love to be driving along the Interstate and pass by that beauty taking it slow in the right-hand lane. I'd slow down too just to get a better look.
@eclemensen publish an itinerary of where it will be, let Interested people come find it on their own road trip!
Yes. An interesting piece of Americana with that styling.
I grew up in a two story trailer. It was purchased this way. Had 2 bedrooms and a half bath upstairs a full bedroom downstairs and a full bathroom with a washing machine! This was in 1960 we were the envy of the trailer park.
I know people some times poke fun at living in a trailer but I have to say, this is really cool. I admire all the hard work that went into this to make it a home.
+j1978 yes exactly many different ways OF BEING HAPPY
good and decent people do not live in trailer parks you say?? that's just plan dumb.
Puckles100 apology accepted, thanks brughe
Her father did an amazing job!
Danny DeVito trailer park boys is not reality. I've never watched it because I assume it makes fun of people in trailer parks
This is really cool. Love the fact that she has kept it after all these years. She must have fond memories. What an awesome dad.
4640jds
Unique one of a kind
Proof workmanship back in the day was better than today.
Aluminum outlasts any new materials today.
Their joints, load bearing designs etc were spot on.
The products were honest and didn't have planned obsolescence.
This is amazing, not just the workmanship but the history behind it. Thanks for sharing, your Dad must have been a very skilled artist.
Love these old trailers, they have so much character.
Genius of a father. If she wouldn't of said what he built I would of guessed it was all original. Great job
I could spend hours talking to her and asking dumb questions. Fascinating!
Heaps of respect to her father. What an adventurous soul.
Rang Klos agree i really want to see her dad pix he is awesom man
would have been a humble upbringing
ok look at 03:24
old pic of mom dad and baby
Please keep it in california where it wont get rusted out and destroyed. Such an awesome story and build. Your dad was awesome! The bump out for your mom, addition for you girls. He really tried to do his best for you all.
Shirley's dad was a legend!
I was thinking how cool it is to still have your childhood home! Most people end selling when their parents pass but because she could move it she is able to keep it and pass it down to other generations
I'm Not sure why this popped up on my list in 2019; But I am glad it did. Fascinating.
Same
Me 2. Very cool story. I would actually like to her about her mom and dad more. Sounds like he would or could do anything to keep them all together
*Mine also!*
Ruth same here. Her dad could have been rich today with the trailers I have seen.
It’s popped up on mine in 2024…
She was so happy until you hear her loss . Your home is amazing. . I'm sorry for your loss
Even in the condition she's in (exterior wise), that rig is a bonafide classic BEAUTY! Cheers
...and the trailer's pretty nice too!
Her dad was a legend! Sent his girls to college too! ❤
Merrill Williams. Innovator, craftsman and Dad. R.I.P. sir
her Dad was very creative and provided a good life for his family
There is nothing to be ashamed of when living in a mobile home. I grew up in one and I loved it. Lived in houses and apartments too. Now I’m 57 and my daughter and I live in a beautiful 3 bedroom, 2 full bath mobile home. My sister and brother-in-law live in a 4 bedroom, 2 full bath doublewide that is gorgeous. They’ve been in theirs less time than I have mine and have already paid it off. Hoping to be able to get mine paid off soon as well.
Necessity is the Mother of Invention. I've told kids at work for years: "Sometimes you just gotta get creative." Great Idea!!
SHE IS SOOOO LUCKY ....HER STORY REAMS OF HAPPINESS...
HER MOTHER/FATHER WERE GREAT PARENTS...THEY HAD JUST ENOUGH TO MAKE LIFE THE GREATEST.....
BLESS THIS FAMILY..
THANK YOU FOR THIS VID......
Never seen nothing like this in my life. totally awesome.
This is a great testament to a man that only had his trade and his hands to support the family he loved. He made it so he could move where the work was located. And be comfortable for his family, so he could make a living. This is a long lost psychology in today’s morality. I enjoyed hearing this story and seeing the structural work of art.
Family was ahead of their time. So cool.❤
I love that her dad was committed to keeping the look of the factory in which the trailer was built. Super talented
❤❤❤❤❤ so absolutely beautiful I grew up in a 1953 Stewart two story trailer that my father had bought used when I kid.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
The top floor seems roomy. This is cool now. Must've been amazing back in the 60s. Her dad did a great job!
Wow, i'm so impressed with you dad's craftmanship of making your family home larger! In those days, they were built to last & last it did. I live in my 2005 40 ft one level, lol, 2 slide out motorhome. It's tiny home, but it's built a whole lot more duriable than some newer pull behind campers we've had.
Your dad was pretty inventive and talented...
I hope it ends up in a museum...
I'm back four years later. SO COOL!
I live in a mediocre motorhome because I lost my home in Hurricane Ida & I've loved Spartan for at least a decade. I've seen photos of this one on Pinterest and have been dying to see the inside. Thank you so much for this! It's so amazing! Her dad improved it while maintaining the original look, no easy feat! What a treasure! 🏆 ❤
I lived in an 1950-ish house trailer from birth to age 7, without any extensions. I would joke in later years that I learned to walk early because I could just extend my arms to either side and touch furniture or walls for stability. But we actually found ample space for comfortable living. I remember quite a bit of playtime and events from my preschool years that occurred in that small space. My parents would later recall entertaining up to four other adults for an evening, often with dinner. We transferred from the trailer when my father constructed a small 2-bedroom apartment inside our commercial buiding; we found the new quarters spacious. I found it very novel that there were now corners to turn to go from end to end in the new home.
I'm 25 and I want to live in this SO bad!!!!!
Such a nice story of living in this tiny home.
Love it. Shirley: Your Father had one of those brains that was always 'working'. Genius.
I'm not interested in campers and RVs, but this popped up on TH-cam, and it looked as if there might be an interesting story attached to it. There was! Thanks for finding and sharing this. An interesting peek into how a family lived thanks to their creative dad.
How cool to be able to take one's childhood home with them wherever they might go.
This would be awesome restored. And find a wonderful family too call it home again. Just beautiful.
Her father was an artist.
This is amazing. So cool to have her memories. I love the lines of the trailer. Very Jetsons.
*JUST AWESOME AND BEAUTIFUL! Please restore it and use it as an Airbnb or to travel in!* 👍🏾
Wow just amazing and awesome and heartwarming to know its still in the family, i really hope you have someone to pass this on to it needs to be in the family or a museum . ...just wow , and your dad built it too what a great job ........
It really is like a land yacht. Beautiful workmanship. Her father was a clever man.
Your dad was one hell of a craftsmen looks great.
Eventually someone is going to want to buy this and renovate it and modernize it. It would be so amazing to see updated.
An amazing work of Art,a true Craftsman. The lady looks like she had a good childhood living in the Trailer, very easy to pick up and move on,no need to worry about where you have to live at the next job site,park up and go to work,clear a little piece of ground and plant some vegetables. Good life.
Amazing father and carpenter.
What an adventuresome life your childhood was! Thank you for sharing your awesome home with us, Ms. Wallace - I love how your dad modified the trailer.
❤ This is a piece of Mid Century Modern History. I wish it was on display at the R.V. Hall Of Fame Museum in Elkhart, Indiana.
Could be 😉
Woah this is local to me! Shouts out to Visalia, CA! It would be really neat to see in person. This thing could be in parades it's so unique
Wow! Dad had skills! What a craftsman! Lost art now days. Wish he was my dad.
way ahead of the tiny house movement!! Awesome to be able to live in so many places, but never having to pack up and move houses. Great video!
I live in a 2000 Forest River Park Model with double lofts. It'd been my "dream trlr" for many years. It's awesome to see what is basically my trlr's ancestor!
WOW!! True Blue Americans!! When Fathers worked hard for their families and didn't mind being the " sole provider ". Like my own father!!
That's a pretty insensitive thing to say.
@@phatkatracing
How?
@@Chris_Troxler "True Americans" "When fathers worked hard" and that "sole provider" shit. Fuck that.
That's insulting as fuck. It's also ignorant as fuck.
@@phatkatracing
I'm not trying start a flame war, or whatever it's called, but I still don't see how her statement is insensitive, insulting or ignorant. Just saying that something is offensive doesn't make it true. Please expand upon your reasoning. Again, not trying to argue, just trying to get a better understanding.
@@Chris_Troxler She's saying that fathers don't work today, and that multi-income households are in some way wrong. She posted rhetoric. Rhetoric about "the good 'ol days."
The good 'ol days are bullshit.
Love these old trailers and campers. Thanks. 👍
How awesome her dad was way ahead of his time and in so many ways! Thanks for sharing the story and trailers. A real keepsake & historical treasure.
Incredible... simply incredible... we dont see craftsmen as good as her father anymore....
It looks like a two-story boat, very nice interior
THATS GREAT. YOUR DAD DID WHAT HE HAD TO DO. HE DID GREAT. GOD BLESS YOUR FAMILY
That's the kind of dads we had in those gone days , I always tried to be half the dad my dad was I would be a great dad hopefully I succeed.
Thank you for sharing this amazing story. I truly enjoyed it.
Wow! Dad created a living masterpiece! So many memories! So much history! This place is spectacular! I absolutely adore this lovely home. ❤️
Oh my goodness I grew up in Fillmore. I love the Retro Rv!
Very interesting and what a great story! Nice lady too!
perfectly said!!
That is super cool! If I came across that, I would buy and have it restored for sure.
I know Shirley Wallace. She is a great person! I am glad to see your two-story Spartan featured here. Her Dad was a genius in how he re-built this 1953 Spartan. It is a one of a kind mobile home and well worth placing in a museum. Actually the first two-story or double-decker trailers showed up in about 1950. Spartan never built one so this is a rare double-decker. Other companies like Pacemaker and Stewart built double-deckers from about 1955 and well into the 1960s. The first pull-out appeared in about 1950 on the Rollohome mobile home. A couple of manufacutered experimented with pull-outs even earlier.
I want it to go to a museum some day.
Have you made arrangements? It would be a shame for your trailer not to go to a museum.
Ms shirley Wallace,
Oh my! Absolutely lovely and wonderful and man i would love to have something like this! Spectacular! I am in visalia too and work for a medical transport company and am all over the valley and have never seen anything as great and as show stoppin as this here! Thank you for sharing and may God bless you with more memories in this. I wonder tho, have your own children or grandchildren ever expressed interest in being the proud owners of this one day?! I wouldve been begging for the pinkslip from day one lol ! Bye now!
What a clever talented man.
Wow your Dad sure did love you guys and showed it in a wonderful way. Thanks for the video. May your Dad RIP
Looks like a factory job on the addition.
What a neat life for those young girls.
Thanks for video.
that travel trailer did alot of traveling in its time.....her dad was a great builder to make that addition look like it was built from the factory like that
Trailer was built the year my mother was born... cool ❤
I keep returning to this video as an example of ingenuity and craftsmanship. Thank you for sharing your home and stories. ❤️✌🏼️
Such a cool trailer! Can't wait to get my own one day and have the freedom to see the states and national parks!
Now we have this tiny house revolution going on, like it was something new. I love this, would love to own it.
I agree! This trailer looks very cool, I could live in something like that very easily. And, first things first, I would paint that exterior and it would look fabulous!!! I love that shape!!! :)
I love hearing her fond memories of her childhood and living there.
I want so bad to see it cleaned up on the outside. So dull looking.
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I love the fact that her Dad was so creative and fixed a really neat home for his family! I It reminds me of my Dad, we camped on a nearby lake a lot during my childhood. Over the years our "campers" grew from a two room tent to a converted school bus. We also expanded our watercraft from a two man rubber raft to a six passenger ski rig. We have many good memories and delightful stories about our lake
homes and the people we met in those "good ole days". Lol gotta love the 60's and 70's
Lavena Russell Oh how cool to have a school bus!! Just like the Partridge Family!! lol
It sure would be a lot more comfortable and roomy!! Yea,,it was fun being a teenager in the 70's. :) I have lots of great memories, too!
Take care.
My Dream Home! It looks like a little boat! 😄
What a dream! To have a home that you travelled in and enough space for your growing family. Her father was awesome! My stepdad can barely build a garden box.
Lol aww poor lil stepdad! O:•}
The trailer is worth a small fortune!!!!
Amazing history!!
Your home is not defined by the structure but by the love of that people around you!!
what a great looking trailer and what a great story. Thanks for sharing
I love my 1947 Spartan Manor. I always see people taking pictures when I’m hauling it down the road. Built to last too.
What a pro your dad was. Respect.
That was a nice story, thank you for sharing it.😉
Sweet Lady family tour. If I was the handy type I could restore and make this a minimalist Masterpiece. Such a classic piece of "Americana".
I drove an OTR tractor/trailer for years that was 13'6" --I wouldn't bat an eye towing this trailer across country with my old McNally maps and avoiding low overheads. Her father was a smart man and talented craftsman.
Amazing parent we need more people like her dad kept the family close and happy
Lovely views in the introduction - a good example of RV life in America!
This would be cool to own even in modern times. Restore it and use it. You’d have the most original and unique travel trailer in the campground!
Pretty cool story. Neat looking rv. Her dad had some skill to put all those add-ons.
What a wonderful story!
So glad Shirley got the old girl back. So rare to be able to do something like that. We lived in trailers too, for much of my child hood. Smaller and no facilities. Now I wish I had one of those trailers or even the railroad boxcar we lived in. Hope you get some use out of it again and can pass it on to a good caretaker. It's a gem. Especially that your dad built it up. Enjoy.
Wow! You can see she must have had such a close and loving family. And she still cherishes it. Shows that money and material things do not equal love or happiness. Would love to hear stories of her life.
Spartan and Imperial built some bad ass looking trailers back then! I love that thing!
Das was an amazing handyman. I'd live in this TODAY
I've never seen a two story trailer before 😊 it's cool. Her father was so smart.