Thread Number: 30106
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
When Vac Dealers Had Mini Museums |
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Post# 334487   9/23/2015 at 01:03 (3,110 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon)   |   | |
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Do any of you here remember when your local vacuum dealer once had a "mini museum" of vacuum cleaners?
This picture that my parents took of me at C. & E. Kirby Sales Company back in August 1990, its owners had a bevy of old Kirby vacuums ranging from the first Kirby to be named, the model C, introduced in 1934, to the then-current Generation 3. The owners of this dealership originally ran this branch on 10388 Southeast 82nd Avenue in (unincorporated) Clackamas County from 1972 to 1994, then moving it to 9151 Southeast Powell Boulevard and more recently to 19080 Southwest Shaw Street in Aloha (just west of Beaverton) before calling it quits in 2012. ~Ben
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Post# 334488 , Reply# 1   9/23/2015 at 01:31 (3,110 days old) by cb123 (Mobile, Al.)   |   | |
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Post# 334489 , Reply# 2   9/23/2015 at 02:42 (3,110 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC)   |   | |
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The "mini museums" I see are the trade in piles at the vac shops and dealers-and you could BUY the display if you want! |
Post# 334502 , Reply# 3   9/23/2015 at 10:24 (3,109 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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Post# 334503 , Reply# 4   9/23/2015 at 11:01 (3,109 days old) by Caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut)   |   | |
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It's because of these shops that my interest was fueled, they became my first source of information. I used to pester the salesmen with endless questions. So it seems, did other kids like John Lucia, and in many cases we drove our families crazy with the hunger for vacuum cleaners.
In 1982, with 30 years of usless data in my head, I decided to put it to good use when I met John, and we toured Hoover. Result the VCCC! |
Post# 334505 , Reply# 5   9/23/2015 at 11:21 (3,109 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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Post# 334512 , Reply# 6   9/23/2015 at 16:01 (3,109 days old) by Caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut)   |   | |
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Post# 334513 , Reply# 7   9/23/2015 at 16:22 (3,109 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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Post# 334514 , Reply# 8   9/23/2015 at 16:23 (3,109 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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Post# 334601 , Reply# 9   9/25/2015 at 17:01 (3,107 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon)   |   | |
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