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My first house was a mobile home bought in 1978 when I had my first child, a boy. It cost me $16 000 Can. and had three bedrooms and a nice fireplace in the living room. I moved from it in 1982 to buy my real first house in down town.
My great aunt Ida had a trailer home back in the day. Single wide with the side unit which gave her a bigger living room for her prized living room furniture and a utility room for her washer and dryer. The mobile home was gifted to her in 1960 by a well to do relative. During WW2 Ida worked as an assembler and quality inspector at an aircraft factory. She was a true Rosie the Riverter character, outspoken, at times gruff and a sweetheart ! She made a bundle and after the war purchased her prized living room maple furniture set with its autumn leaf patterned couch and lamps with frilly lampshades, decked out like French poodles ! :) She saw it as a reward for her hard work and as she said to me she made damn well sure the job was done right to ensure that the boys were safe in any aircraft she assembled and inspected. How upsetting it can be when one hears the term “trailer trash”, I don’t think my great aunt Ida was “trailer trash”. -Rj
My first house was a mobile home bought in 1978 when I had my first child, a boy. It cost me $16 000 Can. and had three bedrooms and a nice fireplace in the living room. I moved from it in 1982 to buy my real first house in down town.
ReplyDeleteMy great aunt Ida had a trailer home back in the day. Single wide with the side unit which gave her a bigger living room for her prized living room furniture and a utility room for her washer and dryer. The mobile home was gifted to her in 1960 by a well to do relative.
ReplyDeleteDuring WW2 Ida worked as an assembler and quality inspector at an aircraft factory. She was a true Rosie the Riverter character, outspoken, at times gruff and a sweetheart !
She made a bundle and after the war purchased her prized living room maple furniture set with its autumn leaf patterned couch and lamps with frilly lampshades, decked out like French poodles ! :) She saw it as a reward for her hard work and as she said to me she made damn well sure the job was done right to ensure that the boys were safe in any aircraft she assembled and inspected. How upsetting it can be when one hears the term “trailer trash”, I don’t think my great aunt Ida was “trailer trash”.
-Rj
Rj - Unfortunately, there is such a thing as trailer trash. After all, I was living in a single-wide when Jerry and I met. :-)
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