| It started out with the pioneers and their canvas | | | | it's "house on wheels" and it was sold for a steep |
| covered wagons traveling miles across the country | | | | (back in that day) price of $535. |
| to find new lands to prosper. They would pack their | | | | 1910 was a big year when recreational vehicles were |
| wagons with all the luxuries that they knew of and | | | | manufactured and introduced to America. In fact a |
| camp as they navigated to their apparent destination | | | | version of the "Touring Landau" was a primitive |
| looking for an adventurous life. It may not have been | | | | version of the type B van camper that exists |
| what we perceive today as being a recreational | | | | presently. It was produced by Pierce- Arrows and |
| vehicle, however it was the start of the industry that | | | | even contained a toilet. However, Pierce- arrows |
| many would come to value, explore, and chase their | | | | were not the only innovators in that era for |
| dreams with. | | | | producing RV's. Auto Kamp Trailers and the Los |
| Camping is one of America's favorite past times, and | | | | Angeles Trailer Works had their own lines of the |
| it certainly has grown into a plethora of genres for | | | | traveling homes. Some of these versions of the RV |
| people to indulge their vacations, retirements, and | | | | were featured in issues of popular mechanics in 1911. |
| lives upon. The recreational vehicle was not per se | | | | The Recreational Vehicle industry has been flourishing |
| defined as what it is today until after the period that | | | | for 100 years now and will be celebrating it's |
| the first automobile was created. This is the era | | | | centennial anniversary soon. This can only mean that |
| when new innovations flourished as the United States | | | | it will be expanding for centuries to come as now |
| was inspired by newly found inventions and | | | | RV's have more luxuries than anyone could imagine. |
| mechanisms that made life much simpler. | | | | From a bathroom with a mere toilet to the latest of |
| It was said that Henry Ford himself used to fill his | | | | technologies and hydraulics that are included in the |
| Model T with equipment that simulated that of | | | | trend- setting autos. These mobile campers have it all |
| today's RV's and that was ready made for camping. | | | | such as full baths, kitchenettes filled with all the |
| With the birth of automobiles came the necessity to | | | | necessities, generated power, plasma TV's, hot tubs, |
| expand their uses, and soon there were paved roads | | | | many bedrooms, laundry facilities, satellite television |
| everywhere. In the meantime, camping was still | | | | access, and much more. |
| known as an enjoyable activity that united families, | | | | The possibilities are endless in where the next |
| allowed them to bond, and that enabled individual's to | | | | generation is going to lead the recreational vehicle |
| explore nature in it's finest of moments. | | | | industry, but it is for sure that people will never grow |
| As the great notoriety of camping was increasing, so | | | | tired of traveling in the life of luxury and seeing the |
| too was the convenience of campgrounds. | | | | country sides wherever their endeavors may lead |
| Campgrounds were beginning to embellish their | | | | them to. With the vast options available for choosing |
| services by adding picnic tables, convenience stores, | | | | the one that best suits it's purpose and anyone's |
| fire pits, stoves, restrooms, and showers. And then it | | | | budget it is certifiable that it is one industry that will |
| happened! It occurred in Canada first as motor | | | | always be demanded. There will always be places to |
| homes were added to the bodies of the first | | | | travel and people who want to explore the world in a |
| automobiles, however the monumental moment in | | | | home away from home with mobility. |
| time for America was when Anheuser-Busch unveiled | | | | |