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30/8/2024 at 5:57pm
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Quote: Originally posted by bridgeywidge on 30/8/2024
Quote: Originally posted by Monty15 on 30/8/2024
I've got an original inflatable Pneumatic Tent Company 'Igloo' tent from the early 1960's.
How wonderful: one of my first memories of camping with my parents (in a blue Marechal frame tent that was bought at an end of season sale from a ferry company that also offered holidays at the time and which I later took to France with my ex-husband when in my late teens) was, if you're following, of being fascinated by an Igloo pitched next door to us. I was intrigued by the shape, the door and the inflation. It seemed something from outer space and so futuristic.
Yup, bring back originality, curtains, fringing and COLOUR.
When you consider people were still widely using 'boy scout' type ridge tents, which were only marginally better than a bivvy (drafts and creepy crawlies having free and unrestrained access!  ) and frame tents were the latest new trend (still with free roaming bugs and drafts IIRC! ... but at least you didn't have to crawl around with the bugs, you could stand on them  ), the Igloo with it's 'instant' up in minutes, only 4 guy ropes IIRC and sealed SIG truly was something revolutionary! Fell out of favour and took near 40 odd years to be re-invented to a whole new camping crowd who thought THEY were cutting edge! Sorry folks, seen it, done it, lived in it, long before you were even born!
Sadly it did suffer the same shortcoming as modern airbeams - 'bladder blowout!'. It got repaired, and last time I looked a few years back was still serviceable.
Many seemed to be bright orange, mine is deep turquoisey blue. I always keep an eye out for the orange one in the '1969, Carry On Camping Film' - ? What else would I be looking out for in that film? 
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