Please join us for our Annual Meeting for OHA members and board elections on January 18, 2024 from 6:30-7pm. Afterwards, we will have a lecture, open to the public, on the history of travel trailers presented by Arrol Gellner who wrote the book Ready to Roll: A Celebration of the Classic American Travel Trailer published by Penguin. The meeting and lecture will be in-person, held at the Oakland Chapel of the Chimes, 4499 Piedmont Ave.

Ready to Roll takes a journey through the history of the travel trailer, a symbol of America’s love of freedom and the open road. Featuring vintage travel trailers of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, we’ll discuss their stylistic implications, their sometimes luxurious and sometimes whimsical quirkiness, as well as their broad appeal, which now spans more than a century. Whether you’re a fan of retro Americana, an antique car collector, or a lover of American architecture, you’ll find something to like in this lecture.

We are encouraging people to register via Eventbrite, but walk ups are welcome.

Annual Meeting Oakland Heritage Alliance Financials for review

Bio: Arrol Gellner is an architect with over thirty years experience in residential, commercial, and industrial architecture. He is a Cum Laude graduate of the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley. Gellner writes the nationally-syndicated architecture column Architext, and has authored many other articles on design and the history of American architecture. He has also written three books on period design.