Thread Number: 34268
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Trash Find Eureka and Hoover |
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Post# 371321 , Reply# 1   4/24/2017 at 17:41 (2,529 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 371325 , Reply# 2   4/24/2017 at 18:38 (2,529 days old) by compactc9guy (Bathurst NB)   |   | |
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Post# 371329 , Reply# 3   4/24/2017 at 21:29 (2,529 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA)   |   | |
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Post# 371339 , Reply# 5   4/25/2017 at 05:31 (2,529 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)   |   | |
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Thank you for that clarification Jason. I guess I always called those colours "avocado green" because so many major appliances (washers, dryers, etc) were being marketed with that colour name in the early 1970's. I always thought Eureka came up with the Wild Moss description for a slightly different green tone used on their round-hooded Continental upright series from 1976.
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Post# 371342 , Reply# 6   4/25/2017 at 10:33 (2,529 days old) by Dch112 (Concord, CA)   |   | |
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I purchased a Hoover Futura S3511, for the company I work for in 1993 that looks just like that except it is gray. It works good but I don't like the weird wands with the locking ring. The plastic pin can break easily, and it has. |
Post# 371367 , Reply# 7   4/25/2017 at 17:35 (2,528 days old) by Dch112 (Concord, CA)   |   | |
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Here's a picture of the gray one I mentioned. I'd be interested to know the model number of your blue Hoover. They are so much a like.
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Post# 371377 , Reply# 9   4/25/2017 at 20:18 (2,528 days old) by DirtDeviler (Joppatowne MD)   |   | |
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Mine is model s3509 manufactured March 1992. It's my favorite straight suction canister right now. |
Post# 371391 , Reply# 10   4/26/2017 at 07:25 (2,528 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)   |   | |
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Thanks again Jason! That's great Eureka historical information! But this set of green Princesses date from a year or two before this advertisement - at the same time as the 2080 Vanguard Rugulator upright. I wonder if Eureka's literature for those years also used Moss Green to describe the Princesses. :-)
There were only a few Eureka colours that I seem to remember from my childhood: Lagoon Blue from the early 1960's (kind of a turquoise), and Burnt Orange and Harvest Gold from about 1972 for the Sweet Sixteen canisters. |