Warren G. Harding, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, auto camping tour, 1921
Edison, Ford, Firestone video halfway down the page.
Posted on 06/29/2017 5:25:38 AM PDT by SJackson
I’ll bet metal detector guys flock there
At my age “roughing it” means an RV with black and white TV. 50 or so years ago survival camping was fun.
Warren G. Harding, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, auto camping tour, 1921
Edison, Ford, Firestone video halfway down the page.
You wouldn’t believe how rewarding metal detecting is in the catskills.
It’s revolutionary war area that hasn’t been built over yet. The Minisink battleground (Where I live) is still untouched.
I think the popularity of the Gibson girl was instrumental in this growth of camping.
The Gibson girl was:
Smart
Capable of activities that previously were the domain of men.
Graceful
They were what we now call gamers.
I always enjoyed the stories about Henry Ford’s camping trips.
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There was a long cultural build up to recreational camping. The romanticism of the outdoors goes way back. Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden” (1845) so idealized it that it was almost fantasy; and Mark Twain’s “Roughing It” (1872), made it seem like an awesome romp. And there were many, many others.
I’ve got pictures of my great grandparents on various picnics. The women all had on their big hats, men were in suits, ties, hats, and watch chains. But, they were sitting on the ground eating from a huge picnic basket.
Women without corsets?
What’s the world coming to...?
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Much of northern lower-peninsula Michigan is filled with Victorian “cottages” and “cabins” that are larger than your average house is today.
And the new generation of them are still just summer McMansions that people go to to “camp”.
Shenandoah National Park has a hiking loop (The Rapidan) that takes you down to Herbert Hoover’s presidential retreat. Absolutely beautiful, but only a few of the buildings remain. It used to be an entire compound with it’s own trout stream and fishery.
Thanks for posting that - very interesting
The army broke me of camping.
Really rich guys built the great camps like Sagamore in the Adirondacks.
In an age of virgin videography, a steady cameraman and slow panning.
I can watch about 2% of anything anyone does with modern cameras and cell phone videos because they are herky jerky all OVER the place.
They had no electricity or running water and lived in wood shacks.
They were camping already.
I got the Marine Corps to pay me to go camping throughout my late teens and twenties.
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