Caption: "Ollie Trout's Tourist Park, 107th St. and Biscayne Blvd., Miami, Fla." One of the trailers on the right-hand side is labeled "Murphy."
Palm trees dominate the landscape at Ollie Trout's Tourist Park (or Travel Park), Miami, Florida, circa 1937, in this view from a real photo postcard. Visible among the trees are Adirondack chairs, tables with umbrellas, a fountain, automobiles, and travel trailers.
The park was an expensive place to stay in the 1930s and 1940s. As author Phil Noyes explains in his book
Trailerama (2012), p. 118, "In post-war America, five dollars a day was a pretty penny, but that's what it would have cost to park your bouncing bungalow at Ollie Trout's Travel Park. Ollie guaranteed palm trees on every site, and there was a bevy of white-jacketed servants delivering cold drinks and warm food to your trailer door."
For a similar scene with travel trailers, see
Nicolet Bay Campground, Peninsula State Park, Wisconsin.
