to be driving that monster. Granted, life was more formal in the early 20th Century, but even then that homburg and four-in-hand might have looked a little out of place at Muir Woods or Yosemite.

Can you imagine driving that behemoth down a hill in San Francisco when it only has drum brakes on the rear and no brakes up front? No thanks!

The building is still there at 1350 Howard St. So is the domed building down at Howard and Ninth.

I had no idea there were motorhomes as long ago as 1920. Seems like inventions in those days spawned applications very fast.

Note the cylindrical tanks ranged along the side below the body -- perhaps potable water, stove fuel, and holding? The louvers in the side and no window in that area suggest that could be the bathroom.

Today's motorhomes usually have the utilities, including the dump valves, on the driver's side. I don't see anything I recognize as that in the photo. And at that time, surely there were few places with dump stations, so I wonder how you got rid of the holding tank contents? Maybe just into a ditch when no one was looking?

[If there are sanitary facilities in this rig, I suspect they are more along the lines of a chamberpot and do not involve tanks or plumbing. - Dave]

If he sits there to drive, the steering wheel must be right in front of him. Does that mean you go around the front of the steering wheel to go out the door?