"Airstream: Traveling in Style"

Wally Byam graduated from Standford Law school but never practiced law.  Instead,  he began building trailers from kits, modifying and improving them for friends and customers.  It was his dream to build a trailer that would move like a stream of air and "to place the great wide world at your doorstep for you  who yearn to travel with all the comforts of home."  In 1936, the Airstream company was launched when it introduced the "Clipper" travel trailer.

Today, the signature 'silver bullet' aluminum travel trailers are as popular as ever and sixty percent of all of the airstreams ever built are still on the road. Airstream trailers have always incorporated the latest and most innovative styles and features.  The interiors have been designed by the likes of Ralph Lauren and Christopher Deem.  The trailers have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco  Museum of Modern Art.

Perhaps Airstream's most creative innovation was in creating and tirelessly promoting the travel trailer lifestyle.  From the company's earliest days, Wally Byam encouraged his customers to use their Airstreams to "see more, do more, live more."  Byam personally led Airstreamers on caravans around the world from Capetown to Cairo, Southeast Asiaand central America during the late fifties and sixties.  These were arduous, even dangerous trips that dispel the stereotype of Airstreamers as genteel retirees.

Today, the Airstream trailers and the travel trailer lifestyle is as popular as ever.  Vintage Airstreams are in demand and a whole new generation is discovering what Wally Byam espoused seventy years ago.  "Airstream: Traveling in Style"  looks at the history of the Airstream company and the travel trailer lifestyle through interviews with owners, company officials and fascinating archival footage.  In production.

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