2oth Dam Gathering
time during Saturday’s Chili Feed & Pot Luck (even having ice cream for desert!), and lots & lots of folks left with lots & lots of great goodies during the post-dinner Dutch Raffle. Young 20-year-old Cody Main was the ecstatic winner of Roly Nelson’s “levitating” 3x3 fold-out slide-out teardrop sleeping pod. Lee Bryant was the equally happy winner of the Li’l Bear builder package. (Rolling chassis, walls, door & window, vent, lights, and lots of other parts) Both were grand prizes! Lee was there with his rare Lazy-Bones teardrop, and you should have seen how he managed to put everything together to get it all home in one trip! There were so many spectacular tearPhoto: JW drops and absolutely wonderful people that I can’t even begin to remember all of them ... and it seemed like the tiny trailers were stuffed into every possible corner of the camp-
Ann Markus and her rare and all original 1937 Gypsey Caravan ... with her late husband Norm. They’ve been regulars at the Dam Gathering since #2 in 1995. Photo: MG
grounds. There was a mini-reunion of sorts of Camp-Inn trailers, with no fewer than 10 scattered throughout the woods, several clustering together in small packs. There were at least four KampMaster/Wild Goose (Geese?) and a similar-but-more-rounded (and rare!) 1950 Cole ... with most of the “flock” sporting shirts that announced “Six Foot Wide And Standing” and “SRO” (Standing Room Only)! Rare vintage teardrops included Ann Markus’ all-original ’37 Gypsey Caravan, Rob & Cynthia Fisher’s ’37 Jim Dandy Sportsman, Lee Bryant’s previously-mentioned Lazy-bones, and one of only 3 surviving “two-story” Scad-abouts. Everywhere you Photo: JW
Cool Tears Magazine
June 2013
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