Customer Reviews

Silver Palaces

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This book is essential for any fan of vintage campers. It has so much more than the story of Airstreams with coverage of many varities, both unique and common. Great photos on every page, with enough text to describe without a lot of needless details. Keister is on target with the vintage trailer hobby. If you are not a trailer collector, you might be after this book.

This is truly an oustanding book with lovely photography and compact writing. The result is an interesting read with plenty of history coveyed in a complete and interesting way.

Having owned different RV's over the years, it's fun to see what was out there and what is still chearished and functioning. It's always a tug at the heart strings to see some of the old ones go away.

Ok, I may be a bit biased because I've restored two vintage travel trailers, but Doug's books are great conversation pieces for the table. Friends and family members always are shocked when picking up one of his books to take a quick glance at all the incredible photo's he takes. If you actually get the time to sit down and read them, it's amazing all the great information he collects about the owners and the trailers illustrated.

As the owner of a '54 Yellowstone camper, I was excited to find a book that marketed itself as being about all those other silver trailers that don't get all the attention that Airstreams do. Someone could and should do a book that provides in-depth coverage about all the aluminum beauties out there that doesn't devote 80 pages to Airstreams.

This book provided lots of beautiful photography and historical information. Don't get me wrong, we did end up enjoying it quite a bit, but not for the reasons I had initially hoped.