My husband brought this gem home to me the other day.
It is a 1974 Camper's Digest.
Popup's or Folding Tent Trailers are dear to my heart.
While browsing through this digest, I had flashbacks when seeing pictures of truck campers! I could have actually been one of the kids pictured camping with their families in truck campers that year!
Every summer, my dad's work closed for 2 weeks of vacation.
We had sisters in Pensacola, FL, Uncles in South Dakota, Cousins in Nebraska, Aunts in Montana, Sisters in Tennessee, Sisters in Louisiana, Aunts in California, Uncles in Texas, Sisters in Washington D.C., Sisters in Ohio. This of course was not all at one time.
Starting out, too young to remember, some of these relatives were visited in the '55 Chevy, camping accomodations a Sears Roebuck tent. This was with 5 kids. Later, there was a VW bus. By the mid 1960's my parents bought a Chevy truck and Security Camper package. By then, there were just 3 of us kids left at home.
My mom has kept some of the messages we used to post on the window between the cab of the truck and the camper. "Can we stay where there is a pool tonight?" "Can we get a hamburger?" "How much longer until we get there?"
