Before they were call RVers they called themselves Trailerites

Here's another step back in time, from trailerite.com, please, visit their website to view all of the wonderful content about the birth of a life-style!

(All content below belongs to trailerite.com, reposted as a tempter to encourage you to visit their site! I didn't create it and I don't own it, but by joe, its helluva good)

Trailerite.com celebrating the rich and adventurous history of RVing.

The RVing lifestyle has its beginnings in the early 1900s.

Not long after the rise in popularity of the automobile folks began building trailers similar those used today to pull behind their cars and hit the open road.

Sometime during those early days these travelers adopted the name 'Tin Can Tourists' probably because of their tin can like trailers.

After WWII returning veterans looking for inexpensive housing that spurred the interest in travel trailers.