Caravanner classifieds, 1957

Cruiser · 03-30-2004, 05:55 PM

(Dec. issue) Historical classified of trailers owned by Wally and Stella Byam.

jaco · 03-30-2004, 06:16 PM

Boy that was fun reading. Thanks for sharing Cruiser.

I wonder where those units are today?
Especially that 32 footer.

I also have never seen reference to Norwalk California before. Is that a suburb of Cerritos or vice versa or another place altogether?

How many California addresses did Airstream have?
And Where did Wally actually call home? i wonder.

Maybe Fred Colwell can weigh in.

**flyfshr** · 03-30-2004, 06:23 PM

I'll take one of each of those. Thanks for posting and sharing with the group Cruiser.

FF

j54mark · 03-30-2004, 07:25 PM

Did anyone besides me notice the "cork floor"? People who put down cork can point to this as evidence it is period.

Mark

InsideOut · 03-30-2004, 09:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jaco

I also have never seen reference to Norwalk California before. Is that a suberb of Cerritos or vice versa or another place altogether?

My husband Rob (b. '55), his mother (b.'30), & grandmother (b. '00) were all born & raised in Downey and recall seeing the Airstream factory and all the shiney trailers lined up in the lot. Cerritos, Norwalk, Santa Fe Springs and Downey are all suburbs of LA....they are known as the four corners.

They all come together within a couple of blocks, so theoretically Wally could have had a warehouse on one side of the street in Santa Fe Springs and on the other side of the street could have been Norwalk or Cerritos. The area where Wally's factories were in the early days is now gone...the Santa Ana Freeway (I-5) now disects that area....it's criss-crossed with RR tracks, on/off ramps, frontage roads & the freeway.

Downey - incorporated in '56
Santa Fe Springs - incorporated in '57
Norwalk - incorporated in '57
Cerritos - incorporated in '59

Prior to the late fifties, this was all county so the lines were even fuzzier.

Shari

Silvertwinkie · 03-30-2004, 10:05 PM

Where do you find all this cool stuff?

**flyfshr** · 03-30-2004, 10:05 PM

Thanks for the southern California history lesson Shari. That helps to clear things up.

FF

InsideOut · 03-30-2004, 10:19 PM

The address on our original AS Manual is:
12804 E. Firestone Blvd
Santa Fe Springs, CA

Although this address does not exist today, this is where it would be: