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Hoovers Used in Schools Back in the Day |
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| Post# 222521 3/8/2013 at 12:27 (4,066 days old) by kirbytradition7 (Denver (Aurora), CO, USA) | ||
In my elementary, junior high, and high school years (1982-1994) in the USA, I remember seeing lots of Hoover uprights in the classroom. I even used one as part of after-school work crew in high school (I went to a small high school whose students were all involved in cleaning up everyday after school).
I tend to think of them as Convertibles, but I'm not sure. In my later school years, I remember more squarish hoods on them (making them not Convertibles, which had rounder hoods). What Hoover models were popular in US schools back then? How about your memories? What vacuums do you remember being used at school in your young days? I'm sure I never saw a Kirby or anything like that at school ;) kirbytradition7 | ||
Post# 222525 , Reply# 1 3/8/2013 at 13:22 (4,066 days old) by KirbyUltimateG  (Troy Ohio 45373 USA) |
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Schools in my area back in the day used commercial Sanitaire/Eureka F&G uprights, commercial Hoover Convertible uprights, commercial Hoover Elite uprights, commercial Hoover Conquest uprights. | ||
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Post# 222526 , Reply# 2 3/8/2013 at 13:24 (4,066 days old) by KirbyUltimateG (Troy Ohio 45373 USA) |
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They also used commercial Royal All Metal uprights and residential Kirby uprights. | ||
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Post# 222542 , Reply# 3 3/8/2013 at 15:34 (4,066 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon) |
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| Post# 222559 , Reply# 4 3/8/2013 at 16:48 (4,066 days old) by caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut) | ||
It wasn't a Hoover, 
but when my mother, grandmother and I took a tour of Nyack Boy's school in Nyack, New York in the spring of 1958, the headmaster turned to me and asked if I had any questions. "Yes" I said, "what vacuum cleaner do you use here?" He took me to a closet, opened the door and there was a General Electric Roll Easy. For years after that I wanted one, and finally got an exact match in 1994.
The General Electric Roll Easy is on the next to last shelf, far right. On the left of this is the General Electric Swivle Top of the early 1950's. 
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| Post# 222562 , Reply# 5 3/8/2013 at 17:08 (4,066 days old) by mieles7 (TX) | ||
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| Post# 222564 , Reply# 6 3/8/2013 at 17:18 (4,066 days old) by beko1987 (Stokenchurch, United Kingdom) | ||
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My primary school had several aged (back in the early 90s) sebo's or lindhauses (can't remember which) and several Henrys. Secondary school had loads of Henrys and basils, every colour too. Can't remember college, never stayed late enough to see the cleaners. Sure I saw a numatic (Edward size) kicking around. | ||
| Post# 222577 , Reply# 8 3/8/2013 at 18:34 (4,066 days old) by caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut) | ||
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Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut,
now Choate/Rosemary Hall, had three major brands. From 1930 to 1968, Alexander B. Rowan was responsible for every vacuum cleaner the school had. These were only brands he would buy. Electrolux, Hoover, and Kirby.
And who was he? my maternal grandfather. I got to play with any of these I wanted, most of which were in the various storerooms. I was one lucky boy and a very happy one. Here's my grandpa and I in the summer of 1975, a few months before he died. 
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| Post# 222600 , Reply# 9 3/8/2013 at 20:39 (4,066 days old) by BrianKirbyClass (Eudora Kansas) | ||
When my mother enrolled me in first grade,(1972-73 school year, Lawrence Lawson Grade School in Sparta Wisconsin) she told the teacher (who was a very sweet lady) that i liked Vacuums, so the first day of the school the teacher told me it would be MY job to vacuum the Library carpet! (i was thrilled!,,little old ME had a job!,,which i didnt hear her give any job to any of the other kids)
This was a corner area of the large classroom she called the "Library" that had a large piece of shag carpet for us to sit on, while the teacher read to us. The rest of the classroom was hard tile/concrete. Every few weeks, The teacher would then have me stay after school, or at recess, and let me go down the hall to the janitor's closet and bring out the Hoover Convertible and wheel it back to the classroom and use it on the shag. The classroom was at the far end of the hallway from the Janitors closet, so this was a pretty good hike! Im sorry i dont know the model numbers but that Convertible was the commercial model from the 1960s that had the blue or aqua colored hood, and a large canvas/felt type heavy cloth dump out bag. That teacher was a Sweet lady, will never forget her and how nice she was to me.(VERY FEW people were sympathetic or gave a hoot to a 5-6 yr old kid that was in love with Vacuum Cleaners!) Her name was Mrs. Fuenger,,,pronounced Finger! Long since passed away, but sure not forgotten. | ||
| Post# 222612 , Reply# 10 3/8/2013 at 21:14 (4,066 days old) by kirbyvertibles (Independence, KS) | ||
well my school years were 1990-2003 We had starting out many red sanitaire with red shakeout bag. Not many rooms had carpet but a few did. One teacher had her own vacuum and it was the black f-g boss. For the halls they had a yellow and grey nss pig that always sat at the end of the hall but I don't recall it ever being used. Sometime in the mid 90's they traded all of the sanitaires in and bought Dirt Devil MVP clean air with they type c bag system. When my niece started going there I got to go to all of the Daddy day's events at the school with her because she doesn't have a Dad so Unkie was a good replacment, anyhow I peeked in the closet and they were at that time using bagless dirt devils from walmart. Last time I was there before she left that school I noticed they were using Tornado Karcher machines and I asked the janitor about the nss he said they never used it so he took it home.
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| Post# 222735 , Reply# 12 3/9/2013 at 10:47 (4,065 days old) by NYCWriter (New York City) | ||
You people ... | ||
| Post# 222755 , Reply# 13 3/9/2013 at 12:16 (4,065 days old) by kenmore81 (Warwick, RI) | ||
In my elementary school when I started in 1986 we had carpet in half of the kindergarten class and the janitor would occasionally come in with a Hoover commercial with the decade type hood in cream and brown with an orange shake out bag. By the next year they had switched to the blue SingerKenmore/Royobi made PowerFlite with 6 carpet hight and headlight. For my 6th grade year 1993 they had got a few Sanitare. In the 2nd and 4th grade Id got to vacuum the class area rug but other than grade K rooms none of the classrooms had a rug unless the teacher had one for the reading corner. The office and entryways had just heavy carpet mats to vacuum.
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| Post# 222761 , Reply# 15 3/9/2013 at 13:26 (4,065 days old) by NYCWriter (New York City) | ||
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Schools ... | ||
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Post# 222789 , Reply# 17 3/9/2013 at 16:44 (4,065 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada) |
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| Post# 223233 , Reply# 19 3/11/2013 at 23:44 (4,063 days old) by compactc9guy (Bathurst NB) | ||
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when i was in grade 2 at the end of the year whe had to clean the class room and the teacher got this huge orange vacuum think it was a husky or some hting any how big plastic shop vac i vacuum my desk ( oh my! i get to use the vacuum really ? yay ! ) i was trill then i ask if i could vacuum the other desk and she said yes . Jackpot i thought then i vacuum the class rug which was in the reading to the children corner of the class yeah one nice lady she was never forget that day i think the vacuum was a tasky orange vac that teacher made my day for sure there i was vacuuming away like no tomorow the assitant teacher notice i was doing a good job and let me vac a few more desk before taking the vacuum back to the janitor what a great way to end the year
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Post# 223319 , Reply# 22 3/12/2013 at 17:24 (4,062 days old) by Vinvac (Dubuque IA) |
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Our school used Royals for many years. Then they went to Hoover and had many problems. The Royals lasted for 10 years plus, they replaced the Hoover Conquests at least every two years. The very first one they purchased lasted less than six months.
I think they use Windsors now with onboard tools. Our entire building was carpeted at the high school. Grade school had area rugs in each room. They kept the Royals for that building and were still in use when we built the new building in in the mid 90's. They also had a Hoover Comericial Porta Power that did withstand the test of time. | ||
| Post# 223439 , Reply# 23 3/13/2013 at 20:55 (4,061 days old) by marks_here (_._) | ||
When I went to school
Elementary school they were using the heavy duty hoover's with the hight control under the machine. In middle school they were using advance, clarke and super-sweep (the dark green ones, some with white outer bag paper bag systems & others with the dump out bags) and in high school they had super-sweep and lincoln. Mark
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| Post# 223906 , Reply# 25 3/16/2013 at 19:22 (4,058 days old) by anthony (leeds uk) | ||
vacs in school 
there were no carpets in my school however ther was a vacuum cleaner it was a huge thing the size of a oil drun with two motors on top with wheels and a handle [rather ilke a pram would have]the hose was about twice the length of a normal vac wish i could remember the name that was on the front it was a very quiet machine even with both motors running
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| Post# 223923 , Reply# 26 3/16/2013 at 21:23 (4,058 days old) by kenkart () | ||
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Believe it or not! When I was in first grade, 1971, my school had a few carpeted rooms, The first time i saw the vacuum I was dumbfounded, I had never seen a Kenmore upright but there it was,, a new hardbody Kenmore!!! | ||
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Post# 223937 , Reply# 27 3/17/2013 at 04:34 (4,058 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC) |
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In the schools I attended don't remember what vacuums were there-they had hard tile floors.Janitors dry mopped the floors. | ||
| Post# 223951 , Reply# 28 3/17/2013 at 07:44 (4,057 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth) | ||
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My nursery had a Hoover Junior 1346a, I remember the bag was so full it had like a huge solid ball of dust in the bottom of it. then my primary school and secondary had Premiere Mini 175's…. 
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| Post# 223952 , Reply# 29 3/17/2013 at 07:45 (4,057 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth) | ||
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My primary school also had an Electrolux Professional upright too.. 
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| Post# 223993 , Reply# 30 3/17/2013 at 13:53 (4,057 days old) by kenkart () | ||
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Oh MY!!!! That green and chrome vac pictured above....I wish something like that would appear over here!!!! | ||
| Post# 224005 , Reply# 32 3/17/2013 at 15:36 (4,057 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth) | ||
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heres a link to a youtube video of my premiere mini in action CLICK HERE TO GO TO ryry_87's LINK | ||
| Post# 468008 , Reply# 34 12/11/2023 at 12:18 by ilovehoovers (England) | ||
I've been to many schools over the years...
At my nursery in the Channel Islands there was a push-button Henry, likely an HVR200-22 but possibly a UDS. That broke at some point and we gifted them a new Henry, which (iirc) was blue! That was very exciting for me - a brand new Henry! I still remember the day the headmistress unboxed it.
After moving to England I remember my first primary school had a UDS rocker-style Henry, which I got to use myself once! Upon switching to a better school, I found they also had UDS Henrys, a mixture of them and 'Numatic's of the same era. And at my final secondary school (not too long ago!) they had Henry 200s, many with assorted Wessel-Werk floorheads and mismatched aluminium and stainless steel tubes. I assume their supplier found the Wessel-Werk heads cheaper to sell than the official Numatic ones, even though they're the same, as there'd be no other reason to have OEM branded floorheads. | ||
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Post# 468013 , Reply# 36 12/11/2023 at 14:33 by JustJunque (Western MA) |
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That’s funny. Despite being interested in vacuums for as long as I can remember, I have no memory of ever seeing one in any of the schools I attended.
Granted, the vast majority of the flooring was those big square tiles like in department/grocery stores. But, I remember the libraries being carpeted, and maybe the teachers’ lounge. There must have been a vacuum on hand for those areas. | ||
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Post# 468015 , Reply# 37 12/11/2023 at 14:42 by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640) |
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Our Catholic school  had HIGHLY polished tile floors, everywhere but the office. They used a household Eureka! The first school I taught in had recently flooded. They carpeted the entire school. And, each classroom had its own Hoover Convertible (Gold tone, floral bag). Another school, each room had a Dirt Devil light (tiny Royal knockoff) .Another school (the one that had that horrible fire), had a Eureka canned ham, and a Convertible, and a Guardsman. All the rest had Hoover Convertibles. | ||
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Post# 468023 , Reply# 38 12/11/2023 at 14:57 by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640) |
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The seminary | ||
| Post# 468063 , Reply# 39 12/12/2023 at 15:52 by Rugsucker (Elizabethton TN) | ||
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Commercial Hoovers-- --have cleaned miles of carpet in schools, churches, stores, banks and theaters. These would like to beat, sweep and clean again after some TLC. Anyone interested? | ||
| Post# 468066 , Reply# 40 12/12/2023 at 19:38 by Human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
Kirby Classic Omega
The library was the only carpeted space in the elementary school I attended in the early-mid '70s. It had this ugly greenish brown low-pile commercial grade carpet, which was no doubt, installed more to reduce noise than for any possible aesthetic consideration. The library's vacuum cleaner was a Kirby Classic Omega, which curiously was not stored in the janitor's closet with the floor polishers, brooms mops, etc. Instead, it stayed parked in the library, out in the open, next to the fiction section. I first noticed it shortly after I saw the same model was demonstrated in our home. I was very impressed with that machine and equally disappointed that we didn't buy one, but whenever I was in the library, I would take a moment to admire it, even though I was admonished more than once by my teacher not to touch it. I had to wait about four decades before I acquired my first Kirby, a Gsix, from beside a dumpster in the apartment complex where I was living at the time. These days, I have too many vacuums, mostly Kirby and Electrolux.
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| Post# 468081 , Reply# 43 12/13/2023 at 08:23 by ilovehoovers (England) | ||
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A cultural divide? | ||
| Post# 468092 , Reply# 44 12/13/2023 at 16:47 by Human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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At my elementary school, they just used flat dust mops and would sprinkle this stuff that looked like red pencil shavings and smelled weird ahead of where they were sweeping. Not sure what they were trying to accomplish, but the janitor would go down the hall with that little can of stuff (I don't even know what to properly call it) in one hand and the dust mop in the other, sprinkling and sweeping.
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Post# 468096 , Reply# 45 12/13/2023 at 22:12 by bagintheback (Flagstaff, Arizona) |
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In the early 2000s my elementary school used NSS M-1 Pigs with a straight suction nozzle that was used for both the commercial pile carpeting and tile. I remember them being extremely loud especially in the hallways. They also had the commercial Hoover Spinscrub which I knew even at the time was just a home model with a 3-prong cord. On some of my more frustrating days at my job I sometimes wonder if it would be more fun to be a school janitor.
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| Post# 468343 , Reply# 47 12/29/2023 at 01:48 by hygiene903 (Galion, OH) | ||
I remember them using the dustmops and sweeping compound in my elementary school like Edgar mentioned, except that the sweeping compound they used at our school was green instead of red. They also had a central vac system with outlets in the hallways, the gym, and one in each classroom. I don't remember ever seeing the central system used, except that the teachers would use the ones in the classrooms for cleaning erasers and the janitor would connect a short hose to an outlet in the hall from time to time to clean the dustmop. I do remember seeing some long hoses hanging up in a storage area, but I don't think I ever saw them in use.
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Post# 468352 , Reply# 48 12/29/2023 at 09:59 by Kloveland (Tulsa) |
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