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No. 0104Yard and outdoors

c. 1965

Folding camping table set

Running about 61 years

Four generations at one folding camp table

Campers eating at a folding table on the Baltic coast in 1970. Not the table in the story. — Campers eating at a folding table on the Baltic coast in 1970. Not the table in the story. Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-J0724-1007-001 / Klaus Franke, CC BY-SA 3.0 de. The real one is in the original post.

Grandparents in Sweden bought this camping table set in the 1960s, and on a trip to an organized campsite it served its fourth generation. It folds into a case with a handle that fits the car trunk, with room inside for a few flat things. It has never been repainted. The only marks are two chips along the fold in the middle. The tent on the same trip is on its second generation.

The tent went out for at least a week every summer when the kids were young, then likely sat in storage close to 20 years.

Retold from a post on r/BuyItForLife. Read the original

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