I am seeing some cool old school canvas tents still in action these days. I started to collect some photos of them when I see them at campgrounds too.
Some of them are HUGE canvas tents made for families back in the 1960's and 1970's when Dads took off work for a full week or two and knew with confidence that his job would be waiting for him when he got back. Aah yes, those were the days, my friends. I was young, but I got to whitness the generation that could live well on one spouses income, when men slept with both eyes closed and looked forward to the yearly bonus checks and raises and five weeks of vacation and retirement pensions (and those weren't government jobs)...
...but I digress.
Here are some photos I have of classic canvas tents. There were big tents that could sleep a family of seven with room to spare. Some were smaller and would fit only two, but still had room for a 6' tall person to stand up straight.
There were car tents that attached to the backs of station wagons. There were pup tents for maximizing discomfort.
Please post your picks of classic canvas tents. They can be old picks from bygone times, or new pics of surviving tents.
PS: For a fun look at a sporting goods shop and campground and tents of the 1960's, see the film Carry on Camping from 1969. It is an English film and we can see just how bad British teeth could be back in the day and we can see a time when apparently guys in their fifties could date gals in their twenties (did that really happen??)
Anyway, let me start off with the first tent of this thread: The Family Circus Tent. This tent is more enormous than it looks in the pic. It has a full canvas floor and weighs probably 150 lbs in total. It was given to me by a close friend who's family used it for many years before his children went on to have their own children. The tent had too many memories for him to throw away, so I took it to keep the memories alive... and to facilitate me getting a hernia trying to move it. This tent is from the late 1960's.
Some of them are HUGE canvas tents made for families back in the 1960's and 1970's when Dads took off work for a full week or two and knew with confidence that his job would be waiting for him when he got back. Aah yes, those were the days, my friends. I was young, but I got to whitness the generation that could live well on one spouses income, when men slept with both eyes closed and looked forward to the yearly bonus checks and raises and five weeks of vacation and retirement pensions (and those weren't government jobs)...
...but I digress.
Here are some photos I have of classic canvas tents. There were big tents that could sleep a family of seven with room to spare. Some were smaller and would fit only two, but still had room for a 6' tall person to stand up straight.
There were car tents that attached to the backs of station wagons. There were pup tents for maximizing discomfort.
Please post your picks of classic canvas tents. They can be old picks from bygone times, or new pics of surviving tents.
PS: For a fun look at a sporting goods shop and campground and tents of the 1960's, see the film Carry on Camping from 1969. It is an English film and we can see just how bad British teeth could be back in the day and we can see a time when apparently guys in their fifties could date gals in their twenties (did that really happen??)
Anyway, let me start off with the first tent of this thread: The Family Circus Tent. This tent is more enormous than it looks in the pic. It has a full canvas floor and weighs probably 150 lbs in total. It was given to me by a close friend who's family used it for many years before his children went on to have their own children. The tent had too many memories for him to throw away, so I took it to keep the memories alive... and to facilitate me getting a hernia trying to move it. This tent is from the late 1960's.
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