Origins of pop ups

[Lighthawk]

The pop up concept has been done by many manufactures. I wonder how many types have been built over the years. I saw this ad in a '67 Desert Magazine I was checking out on scribs.com

The camper looks more modern than the truck! Or maybe trucks have evolved more than campers?

 

[ski3pin]

Interesting find! A local retired school teacher stopped me at the Post Office the other day when I drove in with our rig. She told me the story that her father had developed a pop up camper - like ours - and was featured in a 1950's article in Popular Mechanics. That would be a fun one to find also.

 

[UglyScout]

A friend of mine has an early 1970's vintage hard sided popup made by a local company very similar to the one above. He loves it - he used to roll around with it in his vintage 1972 pickup. It now sits in his newer Dodge and just doesn't have the same charm

 

[BobM]

A friend of mine has an early 1970's vintage hard sided popup made by a local company very similar to the one above. He loves it - he used to roll around with it in his vintage 1972 pickup. It now sits in his newer Dodge and just doesn't have the same charm

When my Dad retired in 1970 he bought a new Alaskan popup camper and a Dodge truck and he and my mom traveled the country. I thought it was only fitting that I bought a popup for my upcoming retirement. I did put it on a new Dodge but I went for the FWC Raven because the Alskan is too heavy and expensive.

 

[MarkBC]

WTW member milt says his Alaskan camper is of late-'50s vintage -- 1958, I think.

I don't know if Alaskan was the first of the type, but I bet that some of the good folks in the Alaskan Camper User Group have an opinion.

 

[ntsqd]

Just a side note, look who the article's author is. I have several books of hers.