Happy camper Bankston Motor Homes at home in Ardmore Story by BRIAN LAZENBY | Photography by RACHEL BRISTER
Harrison Bankston, left, and his grandsons Colin Baerlin and Chase Baerlin.
H
arrison Bankston, who began his career as a mechanical engineer, soon took a different route. Working with a partner, he operated a business that rented televisions for $1 a day. After Bankston heard a co-worker describe a plan to rent a motor home for a family camping trip, he and his partner borrowed $8,500 in 1970 to buy the first motor home they would rent. Business took off. Although he and his business partner went their separate ways, they remain close friends. Now, 50 years later, much has changed. Bankston Motor Homes, which started with one location in Huntsville, has six locations in Alabama and Tennessee, including a 125,000-square-foot facility at 32205 Bankston Road in Ardmore, Tennessee.
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Ardmore Telephone Company
