The long long trailer

camperpaul wrote:

Imagine:

Pulling the plug and draining Lake Michigan …

…

The truth is stranger than fiction......that's about what happened when Glacial Lake Missoula drained......something like 40 times. The plug was an ice dam that would catastrophically fail near Sand Point ID and wash across all of eastern Washington. It's a really cool story

Glacial Lake Missoula

~DJ~ wrote:

805gregg wrote:
There is no way that Merc hauled that trailer unless it was gutted

It had a special dolly to carry the tongue weight so all it had to do was pull it. Remove the tongue weight from the shuttle and a Toyota can pull it!!!

Remember:

The Hollywood Special Effects people can do almost anything.

Imagine:

Pulling the plug and draining Lake Michigan …

100,000 bulldozers filling the lake with vanilla ice cream …

Every fire department around the lake spraying it with hot fudge …

and the Blue Angels towing a 5,000 pound maraschino cherry and dropping it on top …

I think you get the picture …

805gregg wrote:
There is no way that Merc hauled that trailer unless it was gutted

It had a special dolly to carry the tongue weight so all it had to do was pull it. Remove the tongue weight from the shuttle and a Toyota can pull it!!!

Been years since I saw the movie, but as I remember the inside camper shots made it in to a double wide for space.

Also love the Robin Williams movie.

It's just a movie! King Kong didn't really climb the Empire State Building either!

WoodGlue

There is no way that Merc hauled that trailer unless it was gutted

NMace wrote:
I think it cute coming from a 7 yo, but he did not learn it from the tv show or their movies, it was never said. I suspect he has been listening to grandpa.

Great movie.

Yeah, Ricky said it OFTEN.

Lucy you have some splainin to do

I think it cute coming from a 7 yo, but he did not learn it from the tv show or their movies, it was never said. I suspect he has been listening to grandpa.

Great movie.

This movie and RV with Robin Williams are on the USB and come with us every trip.... they are our rainy day movies.

My DS (age 7) has been watching them for 2 years now. He loves each one - for different reasons. Lucy/Desi - the rocks and the rain, the backing up, the brakes, the traffic, pretty much the entire movie! Robin Williams - the dump station scene :)

Except he also wanted to watch I Love Lucy and now he runs around saying, "Luuuuuuucy, you have some splainin' to do!" when ever something I do doesn't work out like it should and results in a huge mess. He thinks he's quite funny (in his own mind).

rickeoni wrote:
What great life it must have been to RV in the 50's .

Those were not RV's then. It was a house! The trailers of that vintage finally grew into the mobile homes of the 1960's and 70's. As those 8 foot wide trailers got wider and bigger, the country became more mobile and wealthy, creating a market for what we call today "recreational vehicles." However, that 1950's New Moon trailer was not a recreational vehicle used for camping and week ends. It actually grew out of the severe housing shortage from World War II. Now you have a little history lesson.