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Tin Can Tales 2014-15 Winter Newsletter The Tin Can Tourists is an all make and model vintage trailer and motor coach club. Its goal is to promote and preserve vintage trailers and motor coaches through Gatherings and information exchange. Tin Can Tales 2014-15 Winter Newsletter Forrest T Bone Tin Can Tales Volume XIII, Number 2, Winter 2014-15 Edition The Tin Can Tourists is an all make and model vintage trailer and motor coach club. Its goal is to promote and preserve vintage trailers and motor coaches through Gatherings and information exchange. Official Colors: Black and Tan Official Theme Song: "The More We Get Together" Stated Objective: To Unite Fraternally All Auto Campers Guiding Principles: Clean camps, friendliness among campers, decent behavior and to secure plenty of clean, wholesome entertainment for those in the camps [email protected] or visit www.tincantourists.com Address: 4 High Street Bradenton, Florida 34208 Summer April to October: PO Box 489, Gregory, Michigan 48137 Tin Can Tourists are on Facebook Tin Can Tourists Yahoo forums & member pictures The link below will take you to listings of Official TCT events as well as others that have been submitted by various hosts/sponsors http://www.tincantourists.com/rallyregistration1.php#.Ud17YvmTjZU You can view Tin Can Tourists pictures on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tbone2/sets Tin Can Tourists: Centennial Celebration 1919 to 2019 Sertoma Youth Ranch - Brooksville Florida - February 18th through 24, 2019 A weeklong celebration packed with historic events. Put the date on your calendar. 1 | P a g e Essential Links from the Tin Can Tourists Website Become a Member or Renew your Membership Attend a Tin Can Tourists Rally Tin Can Tourists Friendly Campgrounds Classified Ads TCT Trailer and RV Photos - thousands of pictures, please add yours! Trailer Information Identifying a Trailer Insurance Information Vintage Trailer Websites Restoration Help What is my trailer worth? Trailer Titles and Registrations TCT History TCT Representatives TCT Hall of Fame TCT Blog TCT Trailer and RV Photos - thousands of pictures, please add yours! Member pages - create your own page and show & tell TCT Pictures on Flickr Yahoo Group - Discussions Facebook Group - Rally info, share pictures, ask questions Pinterest - Pinning the best vintage trailer images Twitter - Follow us 2 | P a g e From our Royal Chief The Homecoming Gathering at Ester State Park was fantastic. Twenty vintage rigs congregated on the historic settlement grounds to participate in Halloween festivities and the Open House. There are some great pictures at https://www.flickr.com/photos/tbone2/sets Don’t miss Mama Cass, Chiquita Banana, and Phyllis Diller. Many thanks to Mike Greene for his help obtaining transport of the Garton Trailer from New York to Camp Dearborn. With the help of Lee Morris, Camp Manager, we will get a permanent display site for this historic trailer. Jeri and I along with a few TCT members check out Silver Springs State Park here in Florida for a possible event. The staff is very excited about including TCT in a future event at the park. Silver Springs is just east of Ocala and has a number of attractions that members would find interesting. 2014 has been an exciting year for TCT. The number of camping opportunities has expanded as we have experienced a rise in the number of state representatives and individual gathering hosts. Terry has a wealth of information to assist in establishing an event. Almost every state could use an individual representative that would host an event for state members and those that would not have to travel great distances to attend. Also, California is a large state that has a large number of TCT members. Penny Cotter hosts one event in Petaluma, but I know there are other great areas to explore and in need of events. It looks like this year will be the breakout year for attendance at the Winter Convention. We have heard that there is a number of people coming down from the East and Midwest to attend. Safe Travels and Love to all Forrest, Jeri, Terry and Michelle Bone 3 | P a g e Profile of new TCT member John Agnew By Doug Keister When I was researching my first vintage trailer book READY TO ROLL in 2001, one name kept coming up. “You have to talk to Johnny Agnew in Los Angeles.” People would say. “He’s got a great collection of trailers and vintage accessories, plus he knows EVERYONE.” A few months later, I drove into an old trailer park in Pasadena that was home to John’s collection and served as headquarters for Funky Junk Farms. Funky Junk Farms is a collaboration between Steve Butcher, who has a restoration shop an hour away in Fillmore, California and graphic artist Edward Lum. After being welcomed by John, I spent the rest of the day photographing all I could. And there was a lot to photograph. Additionally, John was a goldmine of knowledge about trailers (he showed and demonstrated the first “slimp wheel” I had ever seen). Needless to say, Funky Junk Farms and a number of the trailers appeared in READY TO ROLL and have since appeared in my books SILVER PALACES and MOBILE MANSIONS. It is safe to say that John Agnew is one of a handful of people who are responsible for beginning stages in what is now known as the vintage trailer phenomenon. He was ahead of his time in recognizing the importance of rolling real estate as a part of American history. At any given time he in immersed in a number of restoration and collection projects (he rents out props as well as trailers) in addition to his full time job working as as a Teamster for Hollywood production companies. His work on various movies and his effervescent personality has resulted in accumulating a long list of entertainment industry friends. Visit the Funky Junk Farms website funkyjunkfarms.com and you’ll see photos of him with Halle Berry, Tom Hanks, Ruby Dee, James Colburn and others. John Agnew is a welcome addition to the Tin Can Tourist’s stable of vintage trailer and RV enthusiasts. NOTE: A few months after meeting John in 2001, he moved Funky Junk Farms a few miles away to Altadena where it is today. 4 | P a g e TCT’s Return to Cedar Key By Charon Alexander A small, lovely and iconically Old Florida town once again hosted the Tin Can Tourists for our Return to Cedar Key, a weekend of fellowship, fun and family style dining December 4th through 7th, 2014. 30 sites at Sunset Isle RV Park were occupied by Canners and the Saturday Open House kept the park busy for almost the entire day as people took photos, jotted notes and shared snacks and music in addition to their love of classic trailers and motor coaches. If this event was any indication of the enthusiasm level of the club, Winter Convention in Brooksville, FL is definitely going to be more amazing than ever. This was one of the first winter-months gatherings of Tin Can Tourists in Florida as snowbirds begin to congregate for the winter months. Christmas was very definitely in the air, on plates and in glasses during the initial gathering after arrival, and lots of cheery colors, draped over propane tanks and clipped along awning edges, twinkled well into the evening hours. The glow of Friday Night Lights happened every night at Cedar Key this December, and the full moon overhead made visiting from site to site after dark a total joy. A breakfast and a sumptuous BBQ dinner were provided by the Sunset Isle Club House and Robinson’s Seafood Market, 6 miles away on the main road, served a low country boil preceded by an excellent smoked mullet dip and followed by a decadent array of desserts. The weather for TCT’s Return to Cedar Key could not have been more perfect, and a warm and lovely breeze accompanied Forrest and Jeri as they initiated new the new membership and handed them their pins. Even when the temperatures dipped low on Saturday evening, spirits were still high. Many gatherings of friends, old and new, were happening beneath awnings, by the fire in the Club House and next door at the Low-Key Hideaway’s famed Tiki Bar. Live music from a nearly complete Bluegrass ensemble made the evenings quite festive as they took requests and played favored standards well into the night. Sunday morning dawned much cooler and foggy, but it takes more than that to dampen the spirits of the Tin Can Tourists. As travel trailers and motorhomes were packed and tow vehicles secured, all were wishing their neighbors safe travel until such time as we all see one another again down the road. More pictures on Flicker: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tbone2/sets 5 | P a g e Vintage Trailers featured in the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/garden/a-passion-for-vintage-trailers.html By Kelle Arvay On November 6th, 2014 I did an interview for the New York Times and was asked to share what that experience was like with the Tin Can Tourist members. First let me just say that the folks that I worked with at the New York Times were very down to earth and that made the interview and photo shoot session a very pleasant experience. It all started with a e-mail from Steve Kurutz, who is a writer for the Home & Garden section of the New York Times. Steve expressed his interest in interviewing me for an article he was working on that featured people that renovated and restored vintage trailers.
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