World's Largest Trailer Park Postcard

World's Largest Trailer Park Postcard

Largest Trailer Park Postcard

Bradenton (Fla.)

Trailers--United States

A postcard depicting the Bradenton Trailer Park, which was the largest trailer park in the world at the time that this postcard was published in the 1950s. The trailer park was built on Tamiami Trail just south of Bradenton's business section, by the Bradenton Kiwanis Club in 1936. By the 1940s, the Bradenton Trailer Park had installed electric meters, paved streets, and continuous entertainment. By 1950, the trailer park had reached its maximum capacity with 1,190 lots. Lots were enlarged and the total number was decreased to 600 in 1966. In the 1990s, the Kiwanis sold the Bradenton Trailer Park, due to the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) to disallow the use of the trailer park for charitable purposes.

Original 9 x 14 centimeter hand-colored postcard: Private Collection of Bob Van Horn.

Smith, Harold R.

ca. 1950-1959

Van Horn, Bob

Digital reproduction of original 9 x 14 centimeter hand-colored postcard: image number PC12429, Postcard Collection, State Library and Archives of Florida, Tallahassee, Florida.

Digital reproduction of original 9 x 14 centimeter hand-colored postcard.

Bradenton Collection, Manatee County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

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9 x 14 centimeter hand-colored postcard

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Bradenton Trailer Park, Bradenton, Florida

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Originally published by Harold R. Smith.

Copyright to this resource is held by Bob Van Horn and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.

Cepero, Laura

Wilpon, Bonnie. Sarasota and Bradenton. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 1999.