Kelty Vintage
Est 1952: Kelty Pack is Born...
After several years of making packs in his home garage for friends and family, Dick sells 29 packs in his first year of business for 24 dollars each. Dick hand forms and welds each of the frames, and his wife, Nena, sews each of the pack bags. Kelty packs first include aircraft aluminum contoured frames, padded shoulder straps, waist belts, clevis pin attachment of pack bags, nylon pack cloth, zippered pockets, hold open frames and nylon back bands. The first shoulder straps were produced using wool carpeting for padding. The original clevis piins were made from aircraft rivets.
