What Is The Tongue Weight On This Old Trailer?

[halfdome, Danny]

Check out the Airstream 1/4 down this webpage.

Being this is an old looking picture I was wondering how it's possible and what's the tongue weight.
Must have a lot of cast iron cookware in the rear. Danny

[madjack]

Danny, don't know about the bicycling fool BUT, if you continue down to about the 3/4 mark, youwill see a city street sceene with a sign that says Wellan's on the left(above the Swanson TV dinners)...that is Alexandria La, my home town(basically) circa 1951-2...my dads office was across the street in the 2nd floor corner of the building that says "Bially's Credit Clothiers"...amazing what will pop up on the web........
madjack

[halfdome, Danny]

Well Jack, there must have been a reason I made this post, you found your home town. Must stir up some old memories for you. I'd imagine those business in the picture are mostly memories now. Danny

[madjack]

...you got that right...my wife grew up only a few blocks from that street scene...we lived across the river in Pineville but since dad's office was on that street I spent a lot of time running around those businesses...Wellan's moved a block down and that store became a S&H Kesse, ...Wellans and Peoples shoe store are still in business but have moved out of downtown too the "malls"...along with Sears...Bially's has been closed since the early 70's...the Paramount was one of those grand old theaters with 2 tiers of seating, balcony boxes and all the trimmings...it closed in the 70's as well and a lack of maintenance caused it's roof to collapse...that was a true shame...most of the buildings on the left of the pic are still there but those on the right, past where my dad's was have been torn down and a very nice "mini" park now sits on those sites...the big building on the far left was the Guaranty Bank, later Hibernia and now Capital One bank...it is 10 stories tall and was and still is the tallest building in town...back in the mid 70's I and a couple of other guys, built the cooling tower(for AC) on top of it...ahhh yes, the memories
madjack

p.s. since I was born in '53, that pic was taken right around that time...I consider it quite a find ....MJ

[teardrop_focus]

^ Cool beans, there, Jack... that was a good-looking street. It was a "picture postcard" weather day. I love that mid-century signage.

Being this is an old looking picture I was wondering how it's possible and what's the tongue weight.

Danny, before there was "photoshop" there was "airbrushing".






And if they didn't "airbrush out" a semi-hidden tongue wheel, then the crew for this Airstream publicity photo balanced that trailer to PERFECTION.

[jagular7]

I really like the cira The Good Wife's Guide. We are getting a great laugh at work with it.

What would that guide look like today? LOL. Probably be renamed as well.

[halfdome, Danny]

I really like the cira The Good Wife's Guide. We are getting a great laugh at work with it.

What would that guide look like today? LOL. Probably be renamed as well.

I've seen it before and don't think it would have been well received by my mom during the 1950's. She worked 40 hours a week and we were taught to be self sufficient. Whoever wrote that was in la la land. Danny