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The story of Miss Beverly Whispertone.. |
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Post# 295810 , Reply# 1   8/28/2014 at 10:16 (3,499 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)   |   | |
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The laughter was non-stop. Tanya wasn't offended at all. Craig described the entire look he wanted as "Lady Beverly Whispertone". Including a pink poodle skirt and white blouse. He wanted to 'debut' on stage, pulling a Kenmore Whispertone behind him and "presenting it" to the audience. Craig was the least 'lady like' man I ever saw. There's just no way "Lady Beverly" was going to be 'pretty'. He was a great guy. I really miss Craig. And I really miss the old days when the club was small and we were all great friends. Most of the folks who were VCCC members at that time have remained my friends to this day.
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Post# 295818 , Reply# 2   8/28/2014 at 11:06 (3,499 days old) by Gr8DaneDad ()   |   | |
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Hilarious! My first guess was in the right direction, but the reality is so much more |
Post# 295857 , Reply# 3   8/28/2014 at 16:28 (3,499 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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Post# 296780 , Reply# 4   9/3/2014 at 00:19 (3,494 days old) by Caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut)   |   | |
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You have a birthday cake waiting for you in Miscellanea.
As you know I've been in my private corner of hell, dealing with a very sick golden retriever. Now that I'm back, I'm scrolling through the posts I never got to see, and this one is too good to pass up. Craig Long, who can forget Craig? I don't know if you're aware that he was our first member. When John Lucia and I decided to form the club, I drafted a form letter to the names on the list Stacy Krammes gave us. This was in October of 82, and a week later answers came back, "yes, form the club!" The only letter I didn't get was from Craig. Why? he'd cut to the chase, the day he got the letter, he called me from Buffalo, and we talked for 4 hours. He was a chatterbox, and I knew by the end of the call, somebody I needed! Craig didn't make the first meeting in 85, but did make the next one, our first held in Naperville, Illinois, and he was the life of the party. He was also the only member to stay in my home. I knew money was tight for him, and saved him the expence of going to the Stardust motel on my corner. He slept in the vacuum cleaner display room, (see picture) where else? and did I say slept?, there was no sleep with Craig in the house. We were up all night, with him making lasagna so it would be ready for the members the next night, and he made enough to feed an army. In fact, I froze some of it, and was eating lasagna for weeks! You can't remember what he sang? most likely it was 'Shuffle off to Buffalo,' that he did in falsetto. But my greatest memory was of the day before, his getting off the plane at O'Hare, carrying an Air-Way tank/canister from 1952 (see picture) and he refused to let them put it in the overhead compartment, let alone in cargo. It was at his feet, and was a thank you present to me. I dislike queenie people, and drag queens even more. Craig knew this, and respected that. Only once did he mention the pink poodle skirt. He showed me great respect, never made a move of any kind other than a friendly hug. Last year, or earlier this year, I forget which, I did a search on Ancestry.com, learned that Craig passed away. No doubt he's in heaven chatting away with Jim Kirby, Boss Hoover, Axle L. Wenner-Gren and any vacuum cleaner inventor he can talk to. He was strange, but lovable, and God how I miss him. This post was last edited 09/03/2014 at 00:38 |
Post# 296781 , Reply# 5   9/3/2014 at 01:02 (3,494 days old) by kenkart ()   |   | |
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No one realizes just how much knowledge was lost! |
Post# 297271 , Reply# 7   9/6/2014 at 14:50 (3,490 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)   |   | |
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Post# 297462 , Reply# 9   9/7/2014 at 19:04 (3,489 days old) by HooverLover (Allentown,PA)   |   | |
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Tom, your right! I do remember something about the shocking. I mostly remember all the laughter. What a great night. |
Post# 297526 , Reply# 11   9/8/2014 at 09:58 (3,488 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)   |   | |
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As if it was possible for Craig's hair to stick out any further, I think it certainly did while he was holding that thing. After Mike got it running (and he did work for more than an hour on it), I remember us all being amazed at how quiet the Power Nozzle ran.
Craig grabbed the thing and started cleaning with it. I believe we threw down some dirt, and as he was vacuuming it up, the rectifier on the motor failed. It sent 120 volts into his hand, and I believe he was not able to make the muscles let go. We had to pull the plug. Many people will be horrified to read that he got shocked, but it was only for a moment and he was fine afterwards. I think he actually laughed the hardest at it. I gave the machine to Jimmy Martin, because if anyone deserves to be shocked, it's him. As Cher once said "snap out of it". Good times!!! |