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Charles A. McKee - Electrolux - Have any good stories? |
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Post# 261109 , Reply# 2   12/29/2013 at 12:17 (3,742 days old) by caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut)   |   | |
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I hope you are not limiting this to Facebook only, as it will leave me out. Fact is I'm not on Facebook and doubt if I ever will be. That said, I'm very interested in participating, as I was once the youngest employee of Electrolux. The year was 1968, and I was only 17, but I had a strong love of vacuum cleaners, and that began with the model LX of 1952, when I was only 2 years old!
So hopefully, I can follow this thread and learn about one of the key men behind Electrolux.
Robert Alexander Taber. Founder of The Vacuum Cleaner Collector's Club. |
Post# 261110 , Reply# 3   12/29/2013 at 12:39 (3,742 days old) by vacman1961 (North Babylon, New York)   |   | |
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WOW, this old commercials bring back memories, I met Charlie McKee at an Electrolux dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in 1978 when the Super J was out. |
Post# 261113 , Reply# 4   12/29/2013 at 13:20 (3,742 days old) by caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut)   |   | |
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I have one huge question. Do you plan to do a genealogy on Charles McKee? and here's a related question. Do you plan to include the people he worked with at Electrolux? The overall history of this company fascinates me, and I've been researching it for over 30 years. Charlie rubbed shoulders with many key people at the factory in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, and it would be interesting to learn the fact from the fiction.
Thank you in advance, Robert Alexander (Alex) Taber.
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Post# 261142 , Reply# 5   12/29/2013 at 18:05 (3,742 days old) by hibbotte ()   |   | |
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Alex-If it's okay, I'm going to pm you directly. Thanks, Jason Hibbberd Jason@hibbotte.com www.hibbotte.com... |
Post# 261150 , Reply# 6   12/29/2013 at 19:15 (3,742 days old) by caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut)   |   | |
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Certainly!
I'm glad to help in any way I can, but please understand that my memories are that of a 17 year old boy, who lived in Wallingford, Connecticut, and was selling the model 1205 in 1968 out of the Hamden, Connecticut branch office on Dixwell Ave.. All information following that is by the 63 year old collector, and historian that I am now.
I can be found at Ralextaber@gmail.com, Alex Taber |
Post# 316567 , Reply# 7   2/23/2015 at 17:41 (3,321 days old) by mckee-o-vac ()   |   | |
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hi , i would like a swedish lux - 1 model vac. anyone have one lying around they want to unload ? thanks t |