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2nd Annual Vintage Trailer Bash, a Trailer Show

Martin Trailer — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:50:18 +0000

If you have ever wanted to attend a vintage anything event, go! I had the pleasure of attending the “2nd Annual Vintage Trailer Bash” this past weekend, September 23-25, 2011. This was my first time I stayed for the whole weekend, in a trailer, versus just attending the open house time typically on Saturday afternoon.

I have attended others vintage trailer shows, including early Saturday mornings (before the public is invited), never having a problem, but many folks were just rolling out of their trailers and not ready for the general public. (lot’s of funny retro pajamas)

Staying overnight during the event was very different. First, you meet the others in a different context on Friday into the evening and night. A big bonus was being there late at night. Having never stayed that long, the place does not go down for the night early. Everyone seemed to be moving about, socializing around the park, bonding, trailerite to trailerite. With my buddy Eliot Crowley, an Airstream owner, we joined in with the Central Coast Airstream group for some socializing. In good fun, I was labeled an “SOB” since I have a Shasta in the restoration process. SOB standing for, “some other brand”.

Walking around at night without the crowds, camera and tripod was great fun. Along with a beautiful night, moderate temps we were surrounded by thunderstorms and open skies above.

Below are a few examples.

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Photo Branding in the Shower

Martin Trailer — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:17:37 +0000

Illustrating original ideas and concepts with visuals is the best part of life as a photographer. When ideas and concepts are fresh, “out of the box” originals, they are memorable. Viewers have a stronger tendency to talk about and remember those original thoughts and visuals.

This is in my series of visuals illustrating “You know you’re Trailer Trash when” jokes.

You know you’re Trailer Trash when,

you keep flea and tick soap in the shower.

Creating bold images,

getting people to talk.

Call today to begin investing in visual conversations.
858-549-8881 or Email Martin

CHECK OUT THE PORTFOLIO HERE

Bold Branding takes thought provoking images that are born outside of the box.

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Photo Branding with a Catalog in an Outhouse

Photo Branding with a Catalog in an Outhouse

Martin Trailer — Tue, 11 May 2010 22:12:56 +0000

I am always up for some good humorous jokes, especially involving “Trailers”. Several years ago, I began to play off my last name and discovered a rich treasure trove of trailer enthusiasts, mostly of vintage trailers. Many of those folks are self-effacing trailer enthusiasts telling trailer trash jokes, true aficionados.

Illustrating “Trailer Trash” jokes is pretty unconventional branding for a visual communicator, photographer, based on conventional wisdom, but the images that come to mind relating to the jokes are memorable and very entertaining. Thinking “outside of the box” is what creative people do to get people, products and services noticed. How can I not take advantage of being blessed with a noun for a last name. (Here is another fun name, Hogshead)

This is the first of many visuals illustrating “Trailer” humor in the works.

Enjoy, comment, criticize, critic and share.

Thanks in advance.

Martin (Yep) Trailer

You know you’re Trailer Trash when;

When you get excited moving up to color in the outhouse.

New Color Catalog in the outhouse

Call today to begin investing in visual conversations.
858-549-8881 or Email Martin

CHECK OUT THE PORTFOLIO HERE

Bold Branding takes thought provoking images that are born outside of the box.

Branding

-per Merriam Webster

-per Wikopedia

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Nice Trailer; Lorraine Goes Camping

Martin Trailer — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:32:05 +0000

This is just to funny and has a nice trailer in it too.

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Monterrey Trailer Park, Slice of Life

Martin Trailer — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:24:34 +0000

This is another in my image series called “Slice of Life”. These are the results of polishing “seeing” skills for real work by experimenting on personal projects. The value of personal experimental shooting insures something special for customer assignments and seen in the results.

With my last name, my personal project for the past few years is vintage “trailers” naturally. While not the only genre, it has lead to many new branch off photographic opportunities.

Featured here is Ed Lum, resident of the Monterrey Trailer Park, Highland Park area, right next to Pasadena, California, in front of a vintage Gold Tone Airfloat trailer at the park. The Gold Tone is a rare option on the Airfloat trailer then and now if you can find one.

When working on personal projects, risks and growth are part of the projects that drive and translates to better work for you the client.

Livin’ the Life

Ed, livin' the life at the Monterrey Trailer Park, Highland Park. It is a designated historical site and an original "Auto Camp' from the 1920's. Also, but unconfirmed the park was a Pony Express stop way back.

Expressions of everyday life, drawing in the viewer with real people by a slice in time.

When you need to create and capture the best of a “slice of life”, give me a call.

Have a great day and better week.

See the entire web site at, MartinTrailer.com and do leave your comments, really!

Martin Trailer
858/549-8881

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Slice of Life to Lighten the Daily Load

Martin Trailer — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:47:23 +0000

Recently, I have been organizing and editing images, personally driven and it became obvious for me that they represented a great series of “Slices of Life”, trailer style of course.

The image of the dogs in a Hot Rod/trailer combination will be the first used to promote a new web portfolio that includes, “Slice of Life”.

(to sign up for the promotional mailing, Sign-up Here )

Pomeranians in a hot rod at a vintage trailer show. ©Martin Trailer

Have a great day.

Martin
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Trailer Deaths

Martin Trailer — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:40:51 +0000

A buddy of mine, Mark Harmel good fellow and terrific photographer and I traveled out to the desert over the weekend a few weeks ago. We went looking for photo opportunities including the desert flower bloom and for me, trailers.

There are vintage trailers all around the Salton Sea area, some are still in use and others are wasting away, slowly in the hot dry desert.

We started exploring at Salton City heading north going then south on the east side.. We stopped in a couple of areas I had visited in 2002. We rediscovered while traveling the back roads finding this wasting gem, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

When I spotted that trailer, I instantly remembered shooting this nearly 7 years ago. In the second shot 2009, note the absence of the trailer in the background and the missing framing. Salvage I would guess.

The area is pretty much the same as I remember from 2002, the yacht club and launch area there was some “wear and tear”, but overall not much change.

It seems that the area was dry when this group of trailer were parked, but at some point flooded. The bottom 12-18 inches of the trailer are corroding away. The surrounding area(s) that continue to be occupied are higher by a foot or so without the damage.

Here is a shot I did of vintage trailer disintegrating into the dirt and here is the very same trailer shown on Wikipedia from 2005 we found at Bombay Beach, on the east side of the Salton Sea, opposite of Salton City. Once the skin is off the frame, disintegration seems reasonably quick considering the lack of moisture.

Must be the salt and they just seem to decompose even in the dry hot climate.

Exploratory shooting, the discovery is the homework photographers do, and hunting down vintage trailer is a blast for me.

Martin
MartinTrailer.com

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Hip Trailer coupled with a Mini

Martin Trailer — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:40:38 +0000

A buddy sent this link to me of the cool Mini Cooper and Airsteam combination.

Look Here

How hip is that? I love it!

Martin
MartinTrailer.com

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Trailers – Multi Sized

Martin Trailer — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:17:32 +0000

Some trailer humor based on sizes and perceived size.

The first, a dog house trailer for the little white mop apparently waiting for Fido or was that bone for the white mop.

Now for people, this is a mini-trailer that is “just” big enough for sleeping if under 6 feet and changing. Note, even the TV is outside……..

Martin

MartinTrailer.com

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Bisbee and the Shady Dell Trailer Park

Martin Trailer — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:42:59 +0000

As some have probably figured out, I am always on the prowl for vintage trailers. My quirk. (if you know of vintage trailer locations, speak-up )

A few years ago, I was given a tip about a trailer park that rented vintage trailers as “motel rooms” in Bisbee, Arizona. Bisbee it seems to be famous for two things, a) an enormous copper mine and b) the altitude, 5,000 ft and very pleasant when the lower surrounding area will be scorching. Off I went with no idea what I was going to find and found the Shady Dell Trailer Park at the south end of town on the traffic circle. I regret not staying longer to just walk around town. I will get back there.

If you like the ’50′s era, you will really enjoy this place. Stayed the night in the Spartanette and watched the original movie “The Blob” with Steve McQueen on a vintage B/W portable TV. (the VCR was hidden in a cabinet)

Dot’s Diner holds 6-7 people at a time, but there was never a wait. Food was diner style and good stuff.

A buddy, Mark Harmel, sparked this piece because of his blog post about Tombstone (nice dawn shot), just north of Bisbee.

Check the gallery below for more Shady Dell Trailer Park vintage images.

Martin

MartinTrailer.com

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