Not even sure I am spelling it right ... Could have been Kwik Camp, Kwik Kamp, etc.
When I was a kid (maybe mid 1950's), my Dad bought perhaps the very first canvas "pop-up". It didn't actually pop "up", since that concept hadn't been invented yet. It opened more like a cigar box - we unlatched a lid which flipped over, pulling a more-or-less conventional canvas tent, on an aluminum-tube frame, behind it. It was built of 3/4" or 1" marine plywood, and was incredibly heavy. It had no appliances - we carried a Coleman cooler on the tongue, and a Coleman gasoline stove and lantern in a storage area inside. From our home in Maine, we travelled all over the west in that thing - Yellowstone, Glacier/Banff/Yoho/Kootenay, most of Colorado, and everywhere in between.
I was pretty young, but I seem to recall that it was built in either New Mexico, or in Coffeeville, Kansas. We lost it in a fire in the storage shed years later, and my folks moved up to a conventional hard-side Comet TT which didn't impress me. But I have always remembered that original Quick Camp.
I have done a web search, and found a company with a similar name - but it seems to have nothing to do with the original Quick Camp.
Just for the sake of nostalgia, I would like to talk to anyone who remembers this oldie-but-goodie.
Bill
When I was a kid (maybe mid 1950's), my Dad bought perhaps the very first canvas "pop-up". It didn't actually pop "up", since that concept hadn't been invented yet. It opened more like a cigar box - we unlatched a lid which flipped over, pulling a more-or-less conventional canvas tent, on an aluminum-tube frame, behind it. It was built of 3/4" or 1" marine plywood, and was incredibly heavy. It had no appliances - we carried a Coleman cooler on the tongue, and a Coleman gasoline stove and lantern in a storage area inside. From our home in Maine, we travelled all over the west in that thing - Yellowstone, Glacier/Banff/Yoho/Kootenay, most of Colorado, and everywhere in between.
I was pretty young, but I seem to recall that it was built in either New Mexico, or in Coffeeville, Kansas. We lost it in a fire in the storage shed years later, and my folks moved up to a conventional hard-side Comet TT which didn't impress me. But I have always remembered that original Quick Camp.
I have done a web search, and found a company with a similar name - but it seems to have nothing to do with the original Quick Camp.
Just for the sake of nostalgia, I would like to talk to anyone who remembers this oldie-but-goodie.
Bill
