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My Childhood GE Vacuum Cleaner....
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Post# 148813   8/25/2011 at 23:34 (4,599 days old) by massagemiracle ()        

Its on Chicago's Craigslist. Found it by total luck, I have to have it. I loved that vacuum, I would follow it around while mom pulled it around the house. I loved the exhaust, the smell of the motor. Thats why we have such connections to our past and love of vacuums.


Post# 148814 , Reply# 1   8/25/2011 at 23:34 (4,599 days old) by massagemiracle ()        

A second Picture of the vacuum.


Post# 148816 , Reply# 2   8/25/2011 at 23:39 (4,599 days old) by massagemiracle ()        

I would love to get my hands on it to completely refurbish it. Just to take my time to bring it back to life.



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Post# 148822 , Reply# 3   8/25/2011 at 23:58 (4,599 days old) by henry200 (Saint Paul MN)        

I hope you get it!  If the seller isn't willing to take it to a pack-and-send place maybe a Chicago area member here could help you.  Finding something with such a strong memory/attachment from our childhood means the world to people like us!


Post# 148831 , Reply# 4   8/26/2011 at 00:35 (4,599 days old) by massagemiracle ()        

I have already emailed her and ask her  if Iwere to send her extra cash to ship, would she. And she refuses, I could be a bogus buyer,or it could be fake money orders,  it just scares her to death to do it. And she would rather have it picked up only.  So I guess that I will be taking a trip next week, I have to have that vacuum!


Post# 148869 , Reply# 5   8/26/2011 at 08:30 (4,598 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Certainly looks like a General Electric Air-Flo AVT-somethingorother. I have a few GE cylinder models and the one you're after has the later smooth chrome end caps.

Ah, the thrill of the chase. I see the posting has been deleted so...

Good Luck and have a pleasant weekend drive, Ben.

Dave

GE AVT-70 set


Post# 148871 , Reply# 6   8/26/2011 at 08:36 (4,598 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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1948 AVT 172 advert with shiny chrome caps.

Post# 148875 , Reply# 7   8/26/2011 at 08:47 (4,598 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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1947 AVT 70 advert with brown wrinkletone caps.

Post# 148880 , Reply# 8   8/26/2011 at 09:27 (4,598 days old) by henry200 (Saint Paul MN)        
A mystery solved!

I have had this tool for the longest time and never knew what kind of vacuum it came with until seeing these pics!


Post# 148888 , Reply# 9   8/26/2011 at 10:29 (4,598 days old) by massagemiracle ()        

Yes the one in the posting is like the one we had, the pictures that are posted are a more expensive model of the ge we had. I had one of these at my other home in Bainbridge but don't have it now.


Post# 148891 , Reply# 10   8/26/2011 at 11:08 (4,598 days old) by goadie12 ()        

Oh very nice I have the same GE but I dont have any of the attachments or hose very nice. Zach

Post# 149075 , Reply# 11   8/27/2011 at 06:47 (4,597 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)        

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My beloved childhood canister was also a GE Airflo AVT! I used to play with the hose and the tools all the time!!!!

Ours was identical to the milk-chocolate one that Stratford Dave is showing, except our hose and tools were very different. Ours must have been a later edition. Our attachments were all in a matching chocolate brown colour, and the hose was a darker brown with a different stripe. Our upholstery nozzle and carpet nozzle were brown plastic and not metal.

Interesting story from the early 1960's: Dad used to take me and my brother to his advertising office on Sundays if he needed to go into work for a few hours. One Sunday when I was about 4 or 5 years old, he asked us to help him bring the GE vac to the office so he could do some cleaning. I was proudly holding a box of the tools as we made our way up the elevator, but when a stranger got onto the elevator, I remember feeling so embarassed about loving my tools that I immediately dropped them to the floor!!! An hour or two later, while Dad was vacuuming his office, I noticed he was using the bare floor brush on the carpet under his desk.....I was mortified! :-)


Post# 149169 , Reply# 12   8/27/2011 at 18:54 (4,597 days old) by massagemiracle ()        

I just got another email from the owner of the GE I want in Chicago. She is a teacher and just doesn't have time to pack a sweeper and ship it to who knows where. So much for that vac!



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