Welcome to PORTABLE LEVITTOWN, a homage to the post-war house on wheels and the folk who lived in them. These stylish rolling abodes were a mobile counterpart to the mass-produced tract house suburbs that were built in America during the mid-20th century.
Our classic "wheel estate" online scrapbook begins with a chronology of the mid-20th century trailer. America's mobile movement began, in earnest, with "trailer houses" in the 1920s. It advanced through the "trailer coaches" of the 1930s and '40s, "mobile homes" of the 1950s, "12-wides" of the 1960s and "14-wides" of the '70s.
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