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Small Dreams - 50 Palm Springs Trailer Homes is photographic project that documents the architecture and landscaping found in Palm Springs trailer parks like Sahara, Blue Sky, and Horizon. The series presents a typology of various homes that evolved in Palm Springs after WWII. Early trailers were made with surplus sheet metal using technology developed in the aircraft factories during the war. The original trailers were parked on small plots with the front end facing the street. Some were parked under shed roofs on posts to provide shade from the desert sun. Over the years people remodeled, adding rooms, sometimes putting two together to double the size, sometimes creating new facades obscuring the original trailers with grills or patterns, or in some cases mini variations of international styles usually found in more affluent neighborhoods…" -
Jeffrey Milstein
www.1814mag.com
