Trailer show

The antique auction was held in the large ND State Fair building. In another end of the building a local mobile home company was holding an indoor trailer event. The company had moved ten large mobile homes into one room.

As I grew up living in a mobile home I decided to spend a few minutes looking at how trailers are these days. Trailers these days certainly are not like the trailers of my youth. All but one trailer were double wide trailers, that is two trailers attached together. This eliminates the feeling of the typical trailer, long and narrow. Old trailers were a long hallway with rooms off to one side. With the double wide trailers the floor plan eliminates the hallway feel to the trailers.

The double wide trailers can be quite large as one trailer had 2310 sq ft with four bedrooms and 3 baths. Most trailers seem to have jacuzzi tubs for bathtubs. These trailers are nicer than my little old house.

The number of people looking at the trailers were not huge, but most were young couples or young couples with parents. They were seriously looking the trailers over.

Here are a few floor plans ranging from a long 16 by 80 trailer to the 2310 sq ft trailer. The above interior photo was taken from the first floor plan. I was standing in the nook and took the photo of the kitchen area.