Nancy's Vintage Trailers: A Peek Inside the Shasta Compact

Monday, August 30, 2010

A Peek Inside the Shasta Compact

The little Shasta Compact trailer's Theme is Route 66 and all those fun thing you pick up along your travels at tourism shops.

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Crystal Rose CottageAugust 30, 2010 at 2:29 PM
It looks so cute! I recognize some of the things in the little trailer that my parents used to have!~Patti
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Celestial CharmsAugust 31, 2010 at 6:59 AM
I'm a red plaid lover, actually an any color plaid lover...so this one I like. I'm so fond of those old fashioned plastic ketchup and mustard containers, that I store them year round in our fridge. Makes it easy for the kiddos to pour out their condiments. I'm so happy you write this blog!!
Maureen
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AmesNovember 12, 2010 at 10:25 AM
I want one of these little gems for my own. I want to decorate it cute like you do and travel with my girls to new places. I have trailer envy. :( ~Ames
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AnonymousJanuary 17, 2013 at 8:53 AM
I just stumbled upon some pictures of vintage trailers and fell in love! I would love nothing more than to own a tiny trailer to decorate and travel a bit in. Most often to use in our backyard! I am addicted!
Marcia in Canada
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Welcome to Nancy's Vintage Travel Trailers Blog Site

I would like to extend a welcome to all the new followers of my blog. Thanks so
much to Brenda at the Cozy Little Cottage for featuring me. I'm new to blogging
so thanks for your patience. I'll try to improve my site so that it will be fun
for you to check it often.I have been so impressed with so many blogs.
You bloggers are so creative!!!I thought you might me interested in
knowing the history of how I fell in love with vintage travel trailers. I grew
up on a farm in western Iowa. My parents didn't own a trailer, we had a pickup
camper. We always took a summer vacations in our camper. My father loved
history, so I believe I've been to every battlefield, fort and National Park
west of the Mississippi. I never had even been to an amusement park until I was
in college. I've always had such great memories of travels in our
camper..Now I'm a forty something mother of four and live on an acreage
just outside of Iowa City, Iowa. I have a country store and antique shop in our
acreage.The shop is called The Rug Cottage which I started in 1993 out
of a grain shed and the antique shop is called "Barntiques" and is located in
our turn of the century barn. Several years ago we bought a
"woodland" camping theme for the Rug Cottage. One of the items was a small
rounded travel trailer. It was like a light bulb went off in my head... I love
vintage and I love traveling... what a perfect combination. Buy a vintage
trailer and decorated it with vintage stuff. It could be my vintage time capsule
for "Mom's" timeout getaway to read and relax.I found my first trailer
just miles from my house. A young man was using it to stay in while he restored
an old farm house. It was a 1958 Yellowstone small rounded trailer. I loved the
cozy warm Birch wood interiors and I decorated it with a woodland, Yellowstone
National Park theme.It was so fun ... I was like a kid again decorating
my little trailer. I found most of my treasures at thrift stores, garage sales
and antique shops. At that time I had never even heard of anyone else doing
this. One day while reading in my little trailer I picked up a magazine
from a yard sale and starting reading it. I almost fell over when I turned to
the page of an article about a group of women out west called "Sister's on the
Fly" who decorate vintage trailers and travel with them for women's fly fishing
outings. That was it I was hooked!!!!!Since then I have a acquired
several more trailers. All need restoration work. I decided since we live on an
acreage and I have a very understanding husband.. why just have one trailer when
I could have a "Vintage Trailer Park"...We have then all encircled and
at night we light them up and sit around the camp fire and roast marshmallows.
The "Vintage Trailer Park' has hosted many 50's parities, slumber parities and
just plain ole' camp outs.

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A Peek Inside the Shasta Compact

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