Welcome to the Vintage Vacuum Forum and Our New Website!

Welcome to the new Vacuum Cleaner Collectors Club Site –Vacuumland. You have found your way to the Vintage Forum section of the Discuss-O-Vac Forum which will hopefully be a platform for some great discussions about vintage vacuum cleaners. The discussion forum is divided into three major areas – the Vintage Vacuum Forum for discussions about vintage vacuum cleaners manufactured before 1980, the Contemporary Vacuum Forum for discussions about modern vacuums-those manufactured after 1980 and an Off-Topic Forum for discussions about just about anything else. Let’s keep it civil and respectful, please.
The design of the forums is intended to help people find just the discussions and conversations that they are interested in. In addition to the three forums, each forum is further broken down into individual topic threads. Feel free to start a new thread on any specific topic you like, but please keep the discussions to the appropriate forum. It goes without saying that you should also feel free to add your comments to existing threads and keep the interesting conversations going. Please start any new threads in the appropriate forum, i.e. discussions about vintage vacuums in the Vintage Vacuum Forum, discussions about modern vacuums in the Contemporary Vacuum Forum and any other discussions to the Off-Topic Forum. I, as webmaster will keep and eye on things and will move threads to another forum, if a poster posts to the wrong forum by mistake. Robert Seger, the Website designer, has put together this design for AutomaticWasher.Org and it seems to work well for that group. The general rule is “If you don’t want to deal with a certain topic, avoid that thread.” You may also add pictures or links to pictures to the threads to make them more interesting
I should probably comment here about expected behavior on this website. I, as webmaster will be monitoring the discussions. I expect the visitors here to respect one another. That means that you will respect other posters expressing their opinions without attacking them. If a poster “goes over the line” and doesn’t follow the “Golden Rule” I will probably contact them or post some commentary and then deal with the poster if bad behavior continues. I am committed to keeping this site from suffering the fate that other vacuum cleaner sites have experienced. We want to create a friendly community to share a common interest in vacuum cleaners
Finally, I invite you to fully explore the various areas of this site starting from the home page. It is anticipated that this site will continually be updated with new additions. We welcome any suggestions, ideas and material that you may have regarding new pages and have a few new pages, including a convention section, in development. Have fun reviewing vintage owner’s manuals, vintage consumer articles, vintage commercials and the many other features we have worked to add. If you have any questions, please just create a post and we will answer your questions. I also want to thank Mr. Robert Seger for sharing his design, code, friendship and creativity in helping us put this site together
Again, welcome, and enjoy
Fred Nelso


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Post# 1 8/23/2006 at 18:54 (6,447 days old) by compactelectra (Palm Springs)
Checkrate/Likes 1 Welcome to the new Vacuum Cleaner Collectors Club Site –Vacuumland. You have found your way to the Vintage Forum section of the Discuss-O-Vac Forum which will hopefully be a platform for some great discussions about vintage vacuum cleaners. The discussion forum is divided into three major areas – the Vintage Vacuum Forum for discussions about vintage vacuum cleaners manufactured before 1980, the Contemporary Vacuum Forum for discussions about modern vacuums-those manufactured after 1980 and an Off-Topic Forum for discussions about just about anything else. Let’s keep it civil and respectful, please. The design of the forums is intended to help people find just the discussions and conversations that they are interested in. In addition to the three forums, each forum is further broken down into individual topic threads. Feel free to start a new thread on any specific topic you like, but please keep the discussions to the appropriate forum. It goes without saying that you should also feel free to add your comments to existing threads and keep the interesting conversations going. Please start any new threads in the appropriate forum, i.e. discussions about vintage vacuums in the Vintage Vacuum Forum, discussions about modern vacuums in the Contemporary Vacuum Forum and any other discussions to the Off-Topic Forum. I, as webmaster will keep and eye on things and will move threads to another forum, if a poster posts to the wrong forum by mistake. Robert Seger, the Website designer, has put together this design for AutomaticWasher.Org and it seems to work well for that group. The general rule is “If you don’t want to deal with a certain topic, avoid that thread.” You may also add pictures or links to pictures to the threads to make them more interesting I should probably comment here about expected behavior on this website. I, as webmaster will be monitoring the discussions. I expect the visitors here to respect one another. That means that you will respect other posters expressing their opinions without attacking them. If a poster “goes over the line” and doesn’t follow the “Golden Rule” I will probably contact them or post some commentary and then deal with the poster if bad behavior continues. I am committed to keeping this site from suffering the fate that other vacuum cleaner sites have experienced. We want to create a friendly community to share a common interest in vacuum cleaners Finally, I invite you to fully explore the various areas of this site starting from the home page. It is anticipated that this site will continually be updated with new additions. We welcome any suggestions, ideas and material that you may have regarding new pages and have a few new pages, including a convention section, in development. Have fun reviewing vintage owner’s manuals, vintage consumer articles, vintage commercials and the many other features we have worked to add. If you have any questions, please just create a post and we will answer your questions. I also want to thank Mr. Robert Seger for sharing his design, code, friendship and creativity in helping us put this site together Again, welcome, and enjoy Fred Nelso

Post# 7 , Reply# 1 8/25/2006 at 18:24 (6,445 days old) by charles~richard ()
Checkrate/Likes *Congratulations* Looks lovely - should be fun!! Charles Richard Lester Webmaster Emeritus

Post# 11 , Reply# 2 8/25/2006 at 22:17 (6,445 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)
Checkrate/Likes 1 *YAY, Vacuumland is Open* Hi Fred, the website committee and the entire Vacuum Cleaners Collectors Club, I just wanted tell everyone how much fun we had creating Vacuumland and how wonderful it's been working with the entire website committee. I can’t tell you all how honored I was by the fact that you liked my automaticwasher.org website design so much that you wanted a similar design for the new VCCC website. I feel like we are now sister websites/clubs and I so look forward to creating bridges of friendship between the vacuum and washer clubs. No matter what we collect, be it a turquoise Hoover Constellation or a turquoise Frigidaire Automatic Washer, we all have so much in common and have shared so many of the same experiences from childhood all the way up to today. I wish the VCCC a most hearty congratulations with the opening of Vacuumland, I just know its going to be a huge success!!!!!

Post# 17 , Reply# 3 8/25/2006 at 22:51 (6,445 days old) by myhooverco ()
Checkrate/Likes 1 *Thank you guys!* I am so impressed with this new forum! I will make it a part of my daily read and am very excited that it is up and running. Thank you all for your hard work on this website. It will be a great place to chat about our hobby and keep each other posted on those great new finds...Thanks Again! --Tom

Post# 28 , Reply# 4 8/26/2006 at 01:33 (6,445 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC)
Checkrate/Likes I am very impressed and fascinated by this new website-I go under the name "Tolivac" in the Applianceville website-I am interested in Vacuums,Small appliances,power tools,and large appliances.Have collections of each.All are interesting to me.these devices could be considered the servants to man during the 20th-and 21th century.I have just began to explore it and log onto it.

Post# 59 , Reply# 5 8/26/2006 at 13:38 (6,444 days old) by dualsanitronic (Omaha)
Checkrate/Likes 1 *guess we've all been sucked into a vacuum* Thanks Robert and the others.This is totally impressive

Post# 65 , Reply# 6 8/26/2006 at 15:50 (6,444 days old) by converto-skip ()
Checkrate/Likes *Robert, Fred, and the web commmitee* Yes i do want to second everybody's thought on our New web site, It is just totally awsome and like Robert said we are bringing 2 worlds together with this site and washer.org and I do see in the future boths clubs merging as one and having probably the biggest conventions yearly. I know i have made many a good friends already from washer.org. I do have to thank Fred for mentioning to us VCCC members to check out the washer.org site. It just thinks as time goes by We will have a great time with both sites. Skip...

Post# 67 , Reply# 7 8/26/2006 at 16:30 (6,444 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill (Birthplace of the Railway),England, UK.)
Checkrate/Likes 1 *Congratulations!!!* Congratulations to the VCCC on your new website, I`m sure it will be hours of fun sharing stories about favourite vacs, repair tips and new additions etc... A big thanks also to Robert for all his hard work in making another fantastic site come to life!!! Cheers, Mike

Post# 70 , Reply# 8 8/26/2006 at 16:56 (6,444 days old) by eluxomarty (Palm Springs)
Checkrate/Likes *Congratulations!!* Fred Robert and the rest of the Website Committee! You did such i good job creating this new site!!( Crying now) I am going to enjoy it here very much! Thank you so much for your hard work! The website is beautiful!!!

Post# 86 , Reply# 9 8/26/2006 at 21:18 (6,444 days old) by raymanretro ()
Checkrate/Likes Congratulations to you guys on developing a great site! Dr Mitch on Autowasher. :)

Post# 122 , Reply# 11 8/27/2006 at 10:56 (6,444 days old) by buffalo-joe ()
Checkrate/Likes *I'm Here........* This site is great. Looking forward to lots of interesting vac talk here. Still going to lurk on the washer site. Can't forget the friends that reside there. Joe

Post# 242 , Reply# 13 8/29/2006 at 10:39 (6,442 days old) by bobofhollywood ()
Checkrate/Likes *Suckin' in Southern Maryland* Holla from Hollywood. Where else could you put up a subject drift like that except at a vacuum site, huh? Love the new site already, fellas. The thing that fasincates me most about this hobby is the seemingly endless number of shapes and designs that have been used to do basically the same thing - suck!~ Bob Wirth

Post# 355267 , Reply# 14 7/3/2016 at 15:23 (2,845 days old) by KirbyCollector (Columbus Ohio USA)
Checkrate/Likes Cool

Post# 89 , Reply# 10 8/26/2006 at 21:55 (6,444 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)
Checkrate/Likes *YAY - Lets Give Credit Where Credit is Due!* Yes its been a wonderful two months working with everyone. We decided even before we got started to take the design and code from automaticwasher.org and convert it to a vacuum site by just changing the colors, pictures and themes, but leaving the functionality the same. That way it would be very easy for users to jump right in and begin using Vacuumland without much of a learning curve. Fred Nelson, the webmaster of Vacuumland created many of the pages you are seeing at Vacuumland. Fred Stachnik designed and created the fabulous and fun morphing vacuums animation you see on the Home Page. It was Jeff Parker's idea to use the Hoover Dial-a-Matic Dial for the Discuss-o-Vac Forum logos and Charlie Watrous helped pick the new fonts to use. The wonderful VCCC logo was designed by Charles Richard Lester. The Website was tested by Fred Nelson, Jeff Parker, Charlie Watrous, Fred Stachnick, Morgan Frazer, Greg Nunn, Terry Lattz and myself. A big applause goes out to everyone involved to get Vacuumland off the Ground!

Post# 141 , Reply# 12 8/27/2006 at 21:38 (6,443 days old) by converto-skip ()
Checkrate/Likes *Joe* You are so right about our other friends on the washer.org site. I'm very hopeful that they will come aboard this site as well as I'm still going to be a part of the washer.org site as well, the best of both worlds Skip...

Post# 420236 , Reply# 15 2/19/2020 at 12:26 (1,519 days old) by Rdwdcp (UK)
Checkrate/Likes Cool is this the first thread on vacuumland?

Post# 420239 , Reply# 16 2/19/2020 at 13:00 (1,519 days old) by kloveland (Tulsa)
Checkrate/Likes 2 Yep! It was first owned by the VCCC Vacuum Cleaner Collectors Club and now we are separate. The split happened in 2013. Back then when you joined the Vacuum Cleaner Collectors Club Vacuumland was one of the benefits. So many new people on here don't know the history of this site and the Vacuum Cleaner Collectors Club. Personally, I wish we stayed one but many of us were never included in the decision. However, it’s in the past!

Post# 420241 , Reply# 17 2/19/2020 at 13:13 (1,519 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana)
Checkrate/Likes 1 When this thread was written we were just getting heavy into the Iraq war, Saddam and Osama bin Laden were still alive and there was no iPhones or smartphones, youtube was not even a year old, and MySpace was still the best website. So much has changed in 14 years.

Post# 420242 , Reply# 18 2/19/2020 at 13:15 (1,519 days old) by kloveland (Tulsa)
Checkrate/Likes 1 And vacuum groups on Facebook weren't even a thing!

Post# 420243 , Reply# 19 2/19/2020 at 14:17 (1,519 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)
Checkrate/Likes 2 *To quote Sonny and Cher* "History has turned a page, uhuh". So, HERE IS THE 'history of it all".

Post# 420244 , Reply# 20 2/19/2020 at 14:18 (1,519 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)
Checkrate/Likes 2 *And, The VCCC* is still alive and ticking, only with different batteries.

Post# 420249 , Reply# 21 2/19/2020 at 17:04 (1,519 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana)
Checkrate/Likes That is the most important - that it is still here.

Post# 420252 , Reply# 22 2/19/2020 at 18:20 (1,519 days old) by texaskirbyguy (Plano, TX)
Checkrate/Likes *Great thread resurrection!* Very cool to read this one and even better to know the site is still alive and well and active. Thanks to all whom started it up, maintained it, and contributed to it. Hope it keeps on chugging along and does not go the way of dtvintagefans; I miss that site...

Post# 420260 , Reply# 23 2/19/2020 at 21:57 (1,519 days old) by Compactelectra (Palm Springs)
Checkrate/Likes 1 *Hey!* Wow! Thanks for resurrecting this post. I was on the site today digging up some pictures of a couple of KitchenAid dishwashers (www.automaticwasher.org/c...) and saw this post at the top and thought something was seriously wrong with the site since this was the first post (post number 1!!!.) Almost 14 years and over 420,000 posts later, a serious credit to the site, the creator (thanks Robert!!) the moderators and the participants of this site. For those of you familiar with the history of Vacuum Cleaner aficionado web sites you will know that all of them went down in a ball of flames. Our objective back then was to create a safe website environment for fellow vacuum collectors that could be used to share our mutual appreciation of vintage vacuums without the flaming that inevitably occurred. Seems we accomplished our objectives. Not without some scars which I still have. But here we are 14 years later and still going. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. The archives of the site contain some great memories and some great discussions. Continue to use and explore it. It is rich with great information and discussions. Fred Nelson (Webmaster number 1 and former VCCC Newsletter Editor (and former board member.) PS - BTW that storage unit has some great vacuums and parts that need to go to good homes as well.

Post# 420261 , Reply# 24 2/19/2020 at 22:42 (1,519 days old) by Compactelectra (Palm Springs)
Checkrate/Likes 1 *Ah!* Some great memories! It was about the vacuums but not always! CLICK HERE TO GO TO Compactelectra's LINK

Post# 420266 , Reply# 25 2/20/2020 at 09:16 (1,519 days old) by Vac-o-matic (Saint Louis, Mo.)
Checkrate/Likes 1 Wow..That thread brought happy memories and tears to my eyes. Those were the "good old days"!