Trailer parks just don’t look like this anymore! What I wouldn’t give to go back 50 years and re-do the American road trip just like I picture it in my mid-century kodachrome dreams. Today I found a fabulous Flickr account full of old slides and photographs found at estate sales and garage sales by a nostalgic old soul who rescued them with a scanner and Photoshop. “They were dusty, darkened, bent, underexposed and were destined to be trash… their owners long gone.” The slide above had ‘Buckley’s Trailer Park, Palm Springs, 1954′, written on the back. I tried looking it up, but it no longer exists. Le sigh…
El Mirador Hotel Pool, Palm Springs, California – 1953
Yellowstone – 1954
Summer vacation, 1956
Niagara Falls, 1951
Aunt Le and Betty Wurmlinger – May 11, 1953
Coconuts at St Petersburg, Florida
New Orleans Market Stand in 1953
Slot Machines in Reno, Nevada, 1957
Harold’s Club in Reno, Nevada, 1957
Valley of Dreams Trailer Park, Adults Only, 1955
Me & Art Clevinger Having Breakfast on the Beach at Lake Mohave on May 18, 1956
Cabin Interior at Mt Washington, New Hampshire, July 11, 1958
Washington Memorial, Washington, DC August 1949
The Real Old Homestead
The Dexter’s Trailer at Palm Springs, California – 1953
Parrot Jungle Miami, Florida – March 25, 1957
Palm Springs – 1954
Olvera Street Los Angeles, California in 1945
On The Way to That Ocean City, Maryland Parade in 1959
The El Picador Hotel, Palm Springs – 1954
Aunt Le at Pacific Palisades, Overlooking the Santa Monica Bay – October, 1952
Discover more than 500 found photos of midcentury nostalgia here.
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