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Mobile America
- "Mobile America with Huell Howser"
- "Huell Howser visits David Woodworth a collector of early predecessors to motor homes and camping trailers. He then visits a vintage RV rally where owners show off their rigs. Followed by a 1936 segment from the March of time, a newsreel feature, about motor camping."
- ""In this nostalgic one-hour documentary, popular host Huell Howser goes in search of the history of the RV in America. Mobile America contains archival material from respective eras. Newsreels, company films, cartoons, film clips, home movies and personal photos fill out this trip down memory lane. The adventure begins with David Woolworth, the preeminent collector of pre-World War II travel trailers, tent trailers, motor campers and most everything else to do with early American camping. The program also includes a tour of Mae West's custom built motor home built in the 1930's. Next it's off to a vintage trailer rally, where 50 trailers dating from 1935 to 1960 have assembled to spend a weekend showing off their pride and joys. Later, the program features a visit to a Teardrop trailer that was built in the 1940's and is only 10-feet long and four feet wide, but packs all the comforts of home. There also is a segment on the comsummate American travel trailer, the Airstream, which has been producing their silver bullet trailers since 1936."