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Electrolux on "Mad Men" episode
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Post# 47874   8/4/2008 at 08:45 (5,715 days old) by frkirby511 ()        

Last night's all new "Man Men" episode entitled "Flight One," had the character Peggy Olson[Elizabeth Moss] come to work with an Electrolux LX. At first you wonder what she is doing bringing this vacuum to work. As the story unfolds you find out she is not going to use the vacum at the office, but had borrowed the vacuum from her mother, and was stopping for a visit with her mother after work before going home. Since she uses public transportation, she apparently carried the vacuum with her to work so as not to have to go home to get it before going to her mothers home which is apparently on the way.

As Peggy walks into her mother's appartment, she is carrying the vacuum and sets it down in the foyer before going into the kitchen to greet her mother. Sitting at the kitchen table over dinner, her mother asks her if she brought the vacuum with her and if she "emptied" the bag. I guess the writers didn't know the LX big feature was the new Electorlux Wrappers!!! One little mistake in an otherwise perfect presentation of the Model LX. Since the story takes place in 1960, it is certainly plausable that this would be the model her mother would have had.

In fact, as vacuums went back then, this being about 7 or 8 years old in 1960, her mother would have probably considered this a new vacuum, since they built vacuums to last practically a lifetime. And it may have even been the very first vacuum she owned, since in the early 1950's many folks, especially apartment dwellers, still used only carpet sweepers to clean carpeting.

In both scenes you get an excellent shot of the vacuum which is very well preserved, with the yellow background and red script lettering Electrolux. She carries the vacuum with hose, wands and floor brush attached.

You can watch the episode on some cable AMC on demand. It's a great series on the 60's if you haven't seen it. You can also purchase each episode or the whole series on itunes.

A bit of TV vacuum fun!!!
Fr.B

PS The Pre-Vatican II Catholic Mass scene that ends this episode is also not entirely correct. The priest says the Latin invitation to communion, "Domine non sum dignus," 5 times. this was never repated 5 times. In the older rite of Mass, it was only repeated 3 times, and now in the current rite of Mass it's said only once and of course not in Latin but in the vernacular language of people celebrating the Mass.

And when it was said, the priest turned around to the people to say it, he did not have his back to them as this episode portrays. Looks like they needed some extra time to fill in so they just added this to the rite. But then, most films never get Catholic stuff correct. Wish they would ask the right people about these things. More triva!!!


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Post# 47875 , Reply# 1   8/4/2008 at 09:07 (5,714 days old) by electroluxkirby ()        

I haven't watched this series, but I wish I would have watched the first season. I collect IBM typewriters, and there was a scene that showed a room filled with Selectrics, but they used repainted correcting Selectric III's that came out in 80's instead of the Selectric I that came out in the 60's

Post# 47879 , Reply# 2   8/4/2008 at 12:30 (5,714 days old) by charles~richard ()        

Hi Fr Bruce, did the LX have the original hose? THAT would be something!!

Hope all is well,



Post# 47921 , Reply# 3   8/5/2008 at 00:25 (5,714 days old) by frkirby511 ()        
Not the original hose...

Hi C-R,

I watched both vacuum scenes from my itunes download several times.

It is not the original hose. I'm quite certain it is a hose from a model G turquoise. It is clearly a lux hose, though, and has the correct hose endings on both sides. The floor brush is not the correct floor brush. It looks like an early Eureka or GE floor brush because it has a very long, curved neck to attach to the wand.

Also on more careful study it is not the early model LX with the yellow and red lettering but the later one with the monochromatic silver lettering. However, when Peggy first walks into the office with the vacuum, the sunlight shines on it and combined with the various colors in the room it looks exactly like the yellow and red coloring of the original LX. But then as she takes center stage, walking directly in front of the camera across the office to her cubicle, you look straight on at the vacuum and you can then see that it is plain silver. Also the cordwinder is distinctively hammertone blue!! I'm not sure if the model LX ever had a hammertone blue cordwinder; this may be from the E or AE. Still, for all that, the cleaner itself was very well preserved.

Fr. B




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