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Even with trailer parks increasing at the rate of 2,000 a year, space is still tight. And now that they are landlords to more than 1% of the population, park owners think their future is secure in good times...
Instead of roaming, most trailer dwellers settle down in parks, pay rents of $20 a month and up. For their money, they get water, electricity, laundry, and telephone service, a small plot of land, bathroom facilities, and access, in some parks, to such recreation facilities as swimming, tennis, shuffleboard or badminton...
Once in a park, most people stay quite a while. In one California park, 85% of the inhabitants have been there two years or more. Many build outside rooms on to their trailers, put up white picket fences and start vegetable gardens. Many trailer parks are model towns, with a mayor, town hall and garden clubs. Some trailerites don't even own cars; there are companies which haul trailers anywhere...
Commuting by Yacht. The biggest and flashiest trailer parks are in California, where 300,000 people live in 4,000 parks. In Palm Springs's swank Rancho Trailer Park (284 spaces), the current gag is: "You can tell a poor trailer owner because he washes his Cadillac himself." Near Balboa, overlooking the Pacific, is the 230-space Lido Trailer Park, a sort of Palm Beach on wheels. There trailer spaces rent for as much as $100 a month, and trailerites moor their yachts in slips along the front of the park. Many have two trailers, one to live...
...ultimate in trailer living will arrive when Paradise on Wheels, Inc. opens near Phoenix, Ariz, next year. This will be a 160-acre park with lots for sale at $795 to $1,000, and a 2,200-ft. shopping and recreation center designed by Frank Lloyd Wright...