国立アメリカ歴史博物館のインスタグラム(amhistorymuseum) - 1月3日 21時29分

2018 resolution: Travel with the family! Autocamping, traveling with car, tent, and portable furnishings for cooking and sleeping, was a very popular family activity in the 1920s. It was popular again after World War II. The "Camp'otel" in our collection belonged to the family of Robert and Delora French. They took their two sons on camping vacations from 1963-1976. They installed the tent on top of their 1957 Oldsmobile sedan and later on their 1965 Ford station wagon. These are advertising photos for the style of Camp'otel they used.
In 1961, Edmonds Guerrant, an autocamper and mechanical engineer in Fort Worth, Texas, began manufacturing a car-top tent unit that rested on the rain gutter, a metal drip rail around the roof of a sedan or station wagon. The Camp'otel became popular in Texas and was marketed nationally through Sears, J. C. Penney, Western Auto, and others. Loyal Camp'otel owners travelled in groups, formed an organization called the Penthouse Campers Association, and published a newsletter. ⛺️?☀️ Why don't we see Camp'otel tents much today? They went out of business during the gasoline shortage of 1973-1974. A contributing factor to its demise was the gradual disappearance of rain gutters on new cars.

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