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Hello Everyone! Hoover Model 31 is my baby!
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Post# 203869   10/15/2012 at 18:37 (4,182 days old) by hiawatha4 ()        

Hi Everyone!
New to forum. I love reading the threads on various models of Hoovers.

I restored my Mom's green Model 31 years ago, and while caregiving for Mom and Dad before they died last year for two years, it returned with me to the household to work. It picked up everything Mom's newer Hoover Windtunnel missed! I had that old house in top shape in no time thanks to good old Model 31!

My brother has Mom's old Convertible model U4127 - the 1979 green one. His wife also has my grey Decade 80 Convertible and WILL NOT part with both of them, as she loves them cleaning up after a 5 year old and a dog and cat.

I have the burgundy Convertible U4387, just found at the thrift store, where it said "take me home." And my longtime upstairs Convertible U4371-045 in orange, which is probably the last domestic Convertible made, it lacks beater bars, but brushes are hard and do that job.

Funny story about Mom and the Model 31. When she bought it in 1958 her next door neighbor came over to help her assemble it. They got everything put together, and then it came time for the paper bag to be out on that plastic nozzle, and there was a blue rubber liner over that to hold the bag in place. They looked at each other at the same time, thinking the same DIRTY thing.. and burst into laughter and could not stop laughing! (It was like putting on a comdom they thought!)

Anyway, good to be here to share Hoovers and other vacs.

Here is a pic of my late Mom vacuuming with her old Model 31 a year before she died. She had COPD and this old vacuum didn't make her tired at all.


Post# 203870 , Reply# 1   10/15/2012 at 18:51 (4,182 days old) by kirbykid (Horseheads,New York 14845)        

Welcome to vacuumland

Post# 203880 , Reply# 2   10/15/2012 at 20:09 (4,181 days old) by vacuumfreak (Ontario, Canada)        

Welcome to the forum! It's a place where you will find very kind and generous people! What a great story you have there about your vintage Hoover, and I'm sorry to hear about your loss of both your mother and father. Those Hoovers are great, and I someday hope to find one! Any convertible like that, that is!

Anyways, I hope you enjoy the forum! Its a great place to be!
Keep on vacuuming,
Daniel :-)


Post# 203902 , Reply# 3   10/15/2012 at 22:35 (4,181 days old) by HooverCelebrity (Germany)        

What a sweet story... awesome picturing her and her neighbor assembling it and having a laugh.

 

Welcome to the forum!


Post# 203904 , Reply# 4   10/15/2012 at 22:52 (4,181 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)        
Welcome, indeed

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Nice machine and great story. You'll enjoy yourself here.

Post# 203908 , Reply# 5   10/15/2012 at 23:02 (4,181 days old) by eurekastar (Amarillo, Texas)        

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Welcome!  So glad you're here! 


Post# 203912 , Reply# 6   10/15/2012 at 23:16 (4,181 days old) by kirbyvertibles (Independence, KS)        

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Welcome!! My Convertibles are my babies too, thats a good story and the funny thing is we all call those condoms. I wonder what Hoover called them.


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