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Tin Can Tourists pioneered RV travel in the Bradenton area. Here’s a look back 100 years

America’s first RV camper club, the Tin Can Tourists, which formed in Ybor City in 1919, marked the beginning of a new kind of tourism across the United States.

It was tourism that stressed friendship and shared experiences, pulling travel trailers and camping around the country. It also introduced many from the Midwest and Northeast to Florida sunshine during winter months.

Tin Can Tourists hit their peak of popularity during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

When Ybor City’s DeSoto Park, where the club was born, closed in 1924, many of the club members relocated to Braden Castle in Bradenton, said Forrest Bone, who ran the club from 1998 to 2019.

“In 1924, a committee was formed and the property now known as ‘Braden Castle Park’ was purchased. The property today consists of 200 lots, of which 198 are built on with small houses, a trailer park that has 94 mobile home sites and 10 spots for recreational vehicles. The location of the Park is on a point where the Braden River empties into the Manatee River,” according to the Braden Castle website .

The name Tin Can Tourists is thought to have come from the Model T Fords, nicknamed Tin Lizzies, which many members drove, and from the tins of canned food that many ate while on America’s rough and still developing road system of more than a century ago.

“Travelers in these early automobiles modified them to include sleeping areas and kitchens, since hotels and restaurants were scarce along the rural routes where the new roadways passed,” Phaedra Carter said in a Bradenton Herald column in 2016 .

A passion for vintage RVs

Forrest Bone, and his wife, Jeri, got into RV camping with an Airstream group in 1993.

“I grew up in a family of eight kids and didn’t get to do much traveling, said Forrest, 80.

“It gave us an opportunity to travel,” he said.

Over the years, Forrest and Jeri owned six travel trailers, most of them made in 1949. They started with vintage Airstream trailers and moved on to Spartan trailers.

One of their favorites was a Spartanette trailer that they found at the Manatee Trailer Park off State Road 64 East.

“We sold it once and then bought it back,” Forrest said.

With each of their trailers, Forrest would handle the rehabilitation and Jeri the decoration.

Their travels over the year took them to most of the lower 48 states and as far as Arizona and California.

Faced with worsening traffic and more congested highways, the couple turn the club over to their son, Terry Bone, a few years ago. Terry is now club president.

“I miss it a whole lot. I miss the people. They are such a nice group. All you need to have is a vintage trailer and they will walk up and talk to you,” Jeri said.

“I miss all of my trailers. I got to decorate all of them and I love antiques and being around vintage objects,” she said.

Bringing it back home

In 2009, the the Tin Can Tourists held their 89th Annual Winter Convention at Lake Manatee State Park with about 50 rare travel trailers on display.

Forrest and Jeri brought their gleaming 1957 Avion trailer, which resembles the famous Airstream, to the Tin Can Gathering. Avion went out of business in the early 1970s, falling victim to the fuel shortage caused by the OPEC oil embargo.

Another couple brought their “canned ham” trailer, so named for its cramped space. Also on display was a “tear drop” model, which was too low to stand up in and had a pop-up hatch for cooking.

“The people who have these are very devoted to preservation and promotion,” Forrest Bone said in 2009 .

The club also met up in the Bradenton area in 2007, 2008 and 2010.

However, it might be while before it returns.

“TCT has no current plans to host events in the Bradenton area as it has become a challenge to find parks that can accommodate 150-200 RVs for one weekend in the middle of the winter season,” Tim Heintz, the club’s Southeast regional representative said in an email.

“Our national winter convention has moved north of Tampa Bay in the area of Dunnellon the last weekend in February, Heintz said.

For their contributions to Tin Can Tourists, Forrest and Geri are scheduled to be inducted into then RV/MH Hall of Fame in Elkhart, Ind. , in August.

“The major contribution of Tin Can Tourists to RV history in America was the creation of a community of like-minded people who could come together regardless of the type of RV they owned,” Andrew Woodmansey said in his book , “Recreational Vehicles: A World History 1872-1939,” published by Pen & Sword Books.

For more information about Tin Can Tourists, visit the club’s website .

This story is one in a series the Bradenton Herald is producing to celebrate 100 years of publishing in Manatee County.

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Orlando’s streets sported “a motley crew” in the 1920s — “sharpers, aristocrats, tough-looking women, get-rich-quickies, and just plain people,” wrote Lois Wilson, passing through on a motorcycle ramble with her husband, Bill, who would go on to co-found Alcoholics Anonymous.

“It looked like the world on wheels was coming to Florida,” noted Orlando’s indefatigable developer Carl Dann.

In those days, auto travelers soon acquired the nickname “Tin Can Tourists” — inspired by their attachment to the bring-along cuisine they packed into their autos.

“Never having been so far from their own kitchens, and unsure of what to expect in the way of provisions on the road, they loaded up with canned meat and canned vegetables and even canned fruit — they brought their own fruit to Florida,” writes historian David Thornburg.

Hoteliers and restaurant owners weren’t amused, and some Floridians were inspired to quip that many auto travelers arrived from the North with one shirt and one $20 bill — and, during their stay, they changed neither.

The feeling was mutual. A 1930s ad for travel trailers proclaimed that buyers could bring their own homes with them, as well as their food, and ignore not only restaurant prices but “the grasping hotel man,” too.

Call of the highway

These early highway adventurers heard the call of the road — often muddy, rut-filled roads that demanded frequent tire changes — and traveled to Florida in their tin lizzies in the decades before World War II.

It’s a heritage carried on by today’s Tin Can Tourists, a national club composed of owners and fans of vintage travel trailers and campers. Unlike some of the RVs we see traveling Florida’s highways, with their extendable extra rooms, the Tin Canners’ vintage rigs are the rolling equivalent of a bungalow.

The group traces its history to 1919 and the original club that embraced the “Tin Can Tourist” name, with members heading to Florida in winter. The group was still going strong in the 1940s, with 39,000 members at the beginning of the decade and 80,000 at the end.

In 1947, entertainment at the annual Tin Can Tourist winter confab in Florida included a band concert led by the “Toscanini of the Big Top” — Merle Evans, band director for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for more than 50 years.

By the late 1970s, the organization had pretty much evaporated, but in 1998 Michiganders Forrest and Jeri-Ann Bone, who wintered in Bradenton, revived the Tin Can Tourists as a rallying point for fans of antique travel trailers. The club is still going strong, looking toward its winter convention in Brooksville in February.

At home in Orlando

In the early days of auto travel, Tin Canners found a warm welcome in Orlando. Harry Hand, the twin brother of Orlando funeral-home pioneer Carey Hand, operated the Hand Tourist Camp on a 20-acre site between East South Street and East Central Boulevard in Orlando, which I’d guess occupied some of the land that’s now home to the city’s Mayor Carl T. Langford Park.

At the Hand Tourist Camp, the women of Orlando’s First Presbyterian Church started an outreach ministry to bring Sunday school to the children. Their efforts began in a tent, but with contributions from church members, they soon built a wooden chapel, named for Elder W.S. Branch, “at the crook of East Central,” according to the church’s official history by Nancy Abberger.

By 1925, the building had been covered in stucco, and pictures in the Orlando Sentinel in 1926 showed students on the playground of the Hand Tourist Camp Free Public School, “described as ‘the only one of its kind in the world,’ ” Abberger writes.

The small church building stood for years and has only recently been torn down; it was long memorable for its small “Jesus Saves” neon sign.

What’s going on

On Jan. 22, the current incarnation of the Tin Can Tourist club will visit Bartow and present a display of vintage campers and trailers from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. around the Polk County History Center, 100 E. Main St., Bartow.

The trailers and campers will be parked along Davidson Street and Central Avenue around the history center. Visitors can venture inside to learn more about the early days of Florida auto tourism and highways and many other varied aspects of Central Florida history, including Jacob Summerlin and the Summerlin Institute in Bartow, early Polk County attractions and Major League Baseball’s Detroit Tigers and their spring-training history in Polk.

For more about the Polk History Center, visit www.polk-county.net/history-center . For more Tin Can Tourists: The Original Vintage Trailer and Camper Club, including the group’s upcoming 103rd Winter Convention in Brooksville, Feb. 24-27, visit TinCanTourists.com .

Joy Wallace Dickinson can be reached at [email protected] , FindingJoyinFlorida.com , or by good old-fashioned letter to Florida Flashback, c/o Dickinson, P.O. Box 1942, Orlando, FL 32802.

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C lassic car and vintage trailer enthusiast Brian McCool was selling an old pickup when a potential buyer showed up and walked past it to the 1940s Spartan Manor travel trailer sitting in his yard. The guy asked if he wanted another one, explaining he had one up north he wanted to give away for scrap. Used as a cabin and shed, the camper sat since 1960.

Built by Spartan Aircraft and considered luxury in their day, the Manors are made of riveted aluminum — built to last, even park as a portable home, and withstand the elements.

“This is the keeper,” he said. “We lavished a little more money on it thinking it will be our last trailer that we do.”

As 15-year members of Tin Can Tourists, a vintage motor coach and travel trailer club that hosts gatherings and rallies throughout the state and nation, the McCools enjoy getting together with members to share the pastime, swap decorating and restoration ideas, “stage” the campers for public open houses, and relax over group meals and evening campfires.

Pink flamingos, vintage rolling carts, antique lights and awnings decorate their campsites. Step inside and find lots of turquoise, pink, yellow and red; ice boxes, antique toasters, waffle irons and retro dinnerware; and vintage pillows, metal plates, signs and camper advertisements. The events allow the public to peer into history, to admire a salvaged slice of Americana and an opportunity for the owners to showcase their hard work.

“A lot of people leave starry-eyed and think, ‘I’m going to get one of those without realizing the blood, sweat and tears that go into them,’” McCool said.

Tin Can Tourists host gatherings and rallies throughout the state from May to October, starting with the kickoff event at Camp Dearborn in Milford. One of the largest events, it hooks many first-time visitors.

“These little trailers that we do, and our friends do, they are like little museums. We all collect things to decorate them.” — Brian McCool

The club classifies anything pre-1945 as antique, 1946-69 as vintage and campers 20 years and older as classic, said Terry Bone, a mid-states regional representative.

Bone’s parents, Forrest and Jeri Bone, revived the club 20 years ago and remain active in hosting and attending gatherings in Michigan and Florida. The original Tin Can Tourists organization formed at Desoto Park in Tampa, Florida, in 1919 and grew rapidly in the 1920s and ’30s.

“That was when people in the United States started traveling because they got their Model T and they could go places,” Terry Bone said. “The club kind of started back then as a way to educate people about what it meant to organize and travel and camp … how to be good campers and make sure people wanted to have them back.”

Tin Can Tourists thrived for decades until the late 1970s and died out. In 1998, after Forrest Bone retired from teaching, he renewed the club as an all make and model vintage trailer and motor coach club. Today, it has about 2,000 members nationwide, with most from Michigan, Florida and California.

Tin Can members retell a similar story: They often luck into one, restore it and end up owning two or three.

“We like that it’s something unique, and it’s fun to talk to people,” McCool said. “These little trailers that we do, and our friends do, they are like little museums. We all collect things to decorate them.”

The McCools are good friends with fellow members Brandon and Liz Morrison of Muskegon, even sold them their 1948 Pontiac Silver Streak convertible, which the Morrisons use to pull a 1957 Trotwood.

Brandon Morrison, also a classic car guy, had sticker shock over the price of new campers and wasn’t impressed with the quality. He restored and sold a few trailers before finding a keeper in the Trotwood. He isn’t afraid to stop and knock on doors, making up cards to leave when people aren’t home if he spots a camper wasting away in a yard.

“It’s like stepping back in time. That’s what we enjoy the most about our vintage campers, as opposed to the new stuff that doesn’t have any character.” — Brandon Morrison

The McCools and Morrisons go on caravans with the club, including a trip through the Upper Peninsula in 2015 and a multistate tour along the East Coast last summer. They attract lots of attention on the road and when they camp solo.

“You’ll have a $300,000 motorhome parked next to you, and they will come over and ask, ‘Do you mind if we look at your camper,’” Morrison said. “We tow with an old car, so there’s always lots of questions.”

Brandon Morrison grew up in Lansing and camped with his family at P.J. Hoffmaster State Park. After relocating to West Michigan, he reached out to the state park to organize The West Michigan Vintage Gathering. The event continues to grow, quickly selling out the 130 spots for vintage campers and attracting more than 1,000 visitors to the open house. For many, it brings back memories of camping with their families.

“It’s like stepping back in time,” Brandon Morrison said. “That’s what we enjoy the most about our vintage campers, as opposed to the new stuff that doesn’t have any character. The old campers are cozy and different.”

Tin Can Tourists come from all backgrounds, ages, occupations and incomes, and the group aims to have fun — sometimes pranking each other — and come together for the love of camping, vintage trailers and a bygone era. Many members have become such good friends, they get together during the offseason to celebrate holidays and shop for vintage treasures, said Jeanne Bosch, who camps with her husband Brian in a 1935 Bowlus.

“Having people that have the same interests as you do and value the same things that you do, you all kind of fit together really well,” she said.

Collectors of phonographs and vintage cars and motorcycles, the Bosches found the rare Bowlus Road Chief — an early riveted aluminum trailer made by designer and aircraft builder Hawley Bowlus — through the Tin Can Tourists blog and drove to California to buy it.

The Bosches live near Harbor Beach and built a barn for the Bowluses and their growing collection of trailers, which peaked at nine and now hovers at five. They joined the club to get ideas and tips and try to camp with the group every other weekend during the summer. It’s also a good way to see the state and encourage tourism in smaller towns like Milan, Wyandotte, Vicksburg, Empire, Port Sanilac, Port Austin and others.

“Having people that have the same interests as you do and value the same things that you do, you all kind of fit together really well,” — Jeanne Bosch

Many women, single, married and widowed, have taken up the hobby, too. Sherree Hartwig of Benton Harbor bought a Tin Can membership for Christmas a few years ago. Her husband prefers to stay home with the dogs, so Hartwig pulls her camper and sets it up on her own.

Now on her third vintage trailer, she traveled to Oklahoma last winter to buy a 1970 Avion Suntrail for camping this summer. Hartwig buys them mostly restored but enjoys adding her own finishing touches, like sewing the curtains and furnishing it with items from the era.

“I got into it because I wanted to make more friends, I wanted fellowship with people and I like vintage trailers,” she said. “You don’t just set your camper up and sit there and wait for someone to come along. You have to go out and talk to people.”

Longtime campers Roger and Jennie Merkle own a 1948 Prairie Schooner and took an interest in vintage trailers after attending Camp Dearborn’s open house. They started with a 1972 Airstream, then restored a 1964 Monitor and are working on a 1958 Terry, rescued from property up north, to eventually travel around the country. Roger Merkle is a carpenter, with a background in historical restoration, so he works on fixing the inside and Jennie decorates.

“We both just retired, it’s been fun because it keeps us busy and it’s something we like to do together,” she said. “You can research these, but they’re sold old, it’s hard to find a lot of information. We ask each other opinions and questions and find out answers on how to do things.”

Marla R. Miller is an award-winning journalist who lives in Norton Shores where she enjoys the lakeshore lifestyle.

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The new way to travel posed a few problems for tourists.

The horseless carriage was the newest innovation in travel at the end of the Victorian era, one which would change how we built our cities and where we lived. By 1920 cities and towns across the world had begun to make room for the fast-moving machines, as well as to provide parking and new safety laws to manage them. Around the same time the trailer age began. As cars became more powerful and efficient, they were in turn capable of hauling small trailers. This would become the start of an entire movement which would later encompass the famous Airstream trailers and which evolved into a growing RV market. And, one group was there from the beginning: the Tin Can Tourists.

Founded in 1920 the group would not have been able to form sooner even if they had wanted to. One side effect of a changing rapidly from horse and buggy to automobiles was that the roads were not yet suited for long distance car travel. The smooth and pristine highways as we know them today only began in earnest in the 1920s, although a proper interstate system in the U.S. was not completed until 1992! The initiative for the current interstate highway system was enacted in 1956.

In 1920 there were only a handful of interstate highways, one of which spanned from New York to Florida- a common vacation trail. This led to people using camping trailers in order to make camping easier on their vacations to sunny Florida.

Previous travel arrangements would have entailed either arriving by hired horse-drawn coach or by train, neither of which required a parking spot or a place to camp. Tourists would then stay in a hotel or with relations, excepting those who camped on rural fishing and hunting retreats.

The Tin Can Tourists group was started in 1919 in Desoto Park, Tampa, Florida . The idea behind the club was to create clean and safe parks for members to stay at- something which was not yet a priority for motor tourists.

There was a secret handshake, secret sign, and password that only members of the group could know. As car ownership increased in the 1920s, so too did membership in the club. Their club song was “The More We Get Together” and they frequently assembled in large numbers, creating camps and parks that catered to the needs of the trailer traveler. In 1932 estimates of club membership range from 30,000 to as many as 100,000! Their summer and winter conventions, however, were not always welcome. Hundreds of cars (many with trailers and/or tents) all convening in one place was quite the spectacle (and nuisance) in those years.

The club endured, however, after some venue rearrangements, just in time to see the decline of the organization firstly due to the Great Depression, and then by the gas rationing and metal shortages of World War II. However, an even bigger source of hardship came from rival club, Automobile Tourists Association , which drew in members which would have previously only had one club to be a part of. By the 1960s the Tin Can Tourists club was flagging and they held one last convention in 1968.

In 1998 the club got a reboot as an all-vintage car and trailer group which meets in Michigan for regular Gatherings. This required a new registration of the name since it had not officially been in use for some time. The club is open to all who appreciate vintage cars and campers, even if you don’t own any!

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Windmill sails fall from iconic Paris cabaret club Moulin Rouge

The sails of the landmark red windmill atop the Moulin Rouge , the most celebrated cabaret club in Paris , fell to the ground overnight in the early hours of Thursday, much to the sorrow of tourists.

“The Moulin Rouge, in 135 years of history, has experienced many adventures but it is true that for the wings, this is the first time that this has happened,” general manager Jean-Victor Clerico told reporters.

“A little before 2 a.m., the wings of the windmill gave way, fell on the boulevard and fortunately at this time the boulevard was empty of passers-by. We are relieved this morning especially to know that there were no injuries.”

A spokesperson for the Moulin Rouge said the theatre would investigate the cause of the incident with experts and insurers. Clerico said whatever the cause it was not intentional.

The Moulin Rouge, founded in 1889, became a global symbol of end-of-the-century Parisian culture, its famed can-can dancers widely depicted in paintings by avant-garde artists of the era such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Georges Seurat. Nowadays the audience is largely made up of tourist groups.

“I hope they will build it up again so it will be as it always has been, the old Moulin Rouge,” Danish tourist Lise Thygesen said.

German tourist Florence Chevalier said: “It’s weird to me, (the Moulin Rouge), it’s Paris. It’s like the Eiffel Tower, it’s Paris. It’s weird, you can’t say it any other way.”

And it wasn’t just tourists that came to see what happened.

“I heard it on the radio. As I live next door, I wanted to come and see with my own eyes what it was like and it’s very sad,” local resident Laurence Plu said. “It’s not the Moulin anymore, it lost his wings, it lost his soul.”

Tin Can Tourists

The Original Vintage Trailer and Camper Club

Where did the “Tin Can” come from?

2019 marks the 100th year anniversary for the Tin Can Tourists Vintage Trailer club and most people don’t know why we are named Tin Can Tourists. Everyone understands the Tourists part but where does the Tin Can part come from?

In a hundred year time span, origins and background can get lost and then we are left with speculation and rumors.

Here was the speculation:

• Tin Can Tourists were named after the storage containers that they used for their food. Trips would take days, if not weeks, to travel to other states and their wasn’t refrigeration, so most food was canned food consumed during the trip.
• Tin Can Tourists were named after the Tin Cans that were placed on their radiators to indicate they were members of the club. We actually found out that the Tin Can on the radiator was a marketing thing! The year the club was formed, in 1919, a local gas station told the members that if they came to the station with a Tin Can on their radiator they would get a discount on their gas. It was a way for the gas station to recognize the Model T’s from EVERY other Model T. It was one of the first reward card! Later, it was common to place a Tin Can on the radiator cap to indicate that the person needed help on the side of the road and other members would stop to help. There was also a rumor that Tin Cans were soldered to the radiator to indicate membership but this isn’t likely since the motometer on the radiator cap is what they used to check the heat level and the tin can would block their view of the important meter.

So what’s the verified story of how the Tin Can Tourists got it’s name?

In the hand written diary of Ms. William Austin’s trip from LaSalle Michigan to Florida in 1919, she describes the meeting of campers at a campground and their rationale for but starting the club and deciding on the name. The name is based on vehicles they all drove down to Florida and the only vehicle at the time that was dependable enough to make the trip. That vehicle is the Ford Model T and it’s nickname was the Tin Lizzie. They decided to honor their vehicles by naming the club the “Tin Can Tourists”

And now you know the rest of the story….

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