It's a veritable trailer park from a multitude of retail sources--Hobby Lobby and Amazon among them.
What they all have in common is a little tag somewhere that says MADE IN CHINA.
Which has to make a person wonder, even if only a little bit, about the process of turning the growing interest in vintage travel trailers into a mass-produced product--one that's likely meaningless to the Chinese workers turning them out to the specs of some importer somewhere.
No political shadings intended. Just an observation made while a whole bunch of the vintage travel trailers from China were all lined up.
Virtually EVERYThing's made in China these days! I read this book & recommend it: "A Year Without Made in China." http://www.amazon.com/Year-Without-Made-China-Adventure/dp/0470116137
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I can see it now, that an under-paid Asian worker, sitting in a dimly lit factory, is thinking.. "Crazy Americans"...
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Like so many things lately....even our food on the shelves in the store...I am sick of it! Our labor force is out of work....da!
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