IMO, the best example of using/needing a canvas water bag is in the John Ford 1940 movie: The Grapes of Wrath...

When the Family crosses the Mojave from Kingman AZ to Barstow... The radiator is continuously steaming.... Back in the 1920s- '40s; Route 66 was little more than a 2 lane paved "cow trail"... Wandering through the desert...

I used to hang such a canvas bag on my 1965 Mustang when traveling between Barstow and Needles... That was in the early 70s...


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