Fred Coldwell, Dale "PeeWee" Schwamborn, Toni (Grabowski) Ruiz & I had
some involvement in this...it's a short segment, but it may be worth
watching.
Shari
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*VINTAGE AIRSTREAM INVESTIGATED ON PBS' "HISTORY DETECTIVES"*
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*--- AIRDATE: MONDAY, JULY 21 ON PBS*
*HISTORY DETECTIVES 604
Premieres Monday, July 21 2008 at 9:00 p.m.*
*AIRSTREAM CARAVAN*
A couple in Southern California with a vintage wooden car restoration
business owns a classic Airstream trailer that may lay claim to an
illustrious past. The trailer's fading numbers and logo signify it is an
early member of the elite Wally Byam Caravan Club International. Members
of this adventure club followed legendary leader and Airstream founder
Wally Byam all over the world in the mid-twentieth century, from Central
America to Europe and from Africa to the Yucatan Peninsula. Did this
particular Airstream make the journey on the historic "Cape Town to
Cairo Caravan" of 1959? HISTORY DETECTIVES host Tukufu Zuberi heads to
Denver and Southern California to explore one man's wanderlust at the
birth of American leisure travel and, ultimately, to a spectacular
221-day, 14,307-mile trek from the tip of Southern Africa to the
pyramids of Ancient Egypt.
*HISTORY DETECTIVES Season Six: Episode 604 *
Monday, July 21, 2008, 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm ET
Doug and Susi Carr of Grover Beach, California, own a classic Airstream
trailer that may have been part of a historic trans-continental caravan
in 1959.
Credit: Renato Rodriguez
Producer: Lion Television and Oregon Public Broadcasting
For editorial use only in conjunction with the direct publicity or
promotion of this program for a period of three years from the program's
original broadcast date, unless otherwise noted. No other rights are
granted. All rights reserved.
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Shari Davis
'64 GlobeTrotter - www.InsideOut-Design.net/Maxwell
'56 Safari - www.InsideOut-Design.net/Birdy
Vintage Airstream Club - Past President 2007/2008
WBCCI #1824 - Past President (2005) DenCO Unit