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...have any sort of sanitary facilities, and there are times when a gas station's rest rooms simply are not available. In San Francisco last spring, police arrested van livers who were solving that problem by dumping waste on the streets. Heating is another problem. Lenny Hirschtritt took a practical approach: he installed a huge potbellied coal stove in his 1961 Ford Econoline and put a chimney on its roof. "It gets so warm in here," he says, "that at 20 below I've had to open a window." Considerably less conventional is the California couple who warm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Making the Van Go | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

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