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Post# 293161   8/12/2014 at 14:08 (3,535 days old) by vaclover (Freestate, Virginia, South Africa)        

I know now why i love vacuum cleaners the way i do! I was a colic baby and the sound of a vacuum cleaner sooths a baby with colic. Ive found it very interesting.

Kind Regards

Ruan

Post# 293165 , Reply# 1   8/12/2014 at 14:36 (3,535 days old) by kenkart ()        
I dont know...

 But I ALWAYS have loved them...I remember going to my Grandmother Craigs when I was 3 or so and wanting to see her vacuum, which she thought was funny!!"1963 GE swivel Top!"

Post# 293174 , Reply# 2   8/12/2014 at 15:45 (3,535 days old) by hydralique (Los Angeles)        

I suppose it had to do with accessibility. As a child I was absolutely forbidden to touch any controls on the car aside from the radio, the washer console was out of reach and I knew better than to mess with it anyway, but vacuums were down at a small child's level and most people didn't care if you messed around with one since it's hard to hurt yourself with a vacuum. My favorite vac back then was my aunt and uncle's green GE swiveltop with the cord reel, not sure about the year but somewhere in the early '60s. It was way more fun than my mom's Hoover upright and even better than my grandmother's Kirby. If I had more space I'd surely be hunting one. As it is when I found my Filter Queen D-33 one requirement was the cord reel because it reminds me of the old GE!

Post# 293208 , Reply# 3   8/12/2014 at 18:53 (3,534 days old) by kenkart ()        
Re FQ cord reel!

 It Should remind you of it...BECAUSE FQ bought the cordreel from GE..its the same thing!!!

Post# 293209 , Reply# 4   8/12/2014 at 19:13 (3,534 days old) by hydralique (Los Angeles)        
OMG . . .

 That's amazing! Suffice it to say that I've loved cord reels since then. I've often wondered why Filter Queen quit offering the cord reel because it makes so much sense on an upper-end vac but maybe GE quit making the assembly. I sure hope mine never breaks; I suppose parts are now NLA. That GE was a very pretty machine, better looking than the FQ but I have a thing for old-school metal bagless vacs, hence the FQ and Compacts. Thanks for the info on the cord reel Hans!

I know you like straight suction machines. A few days ago I was chatting with a guy who works at a vacuum store. He related a story of how many years ago he was asked to solve a problem for a building owner who had leased space to a political candidate. The lease space was full of people manning the phones and calling all over the country to solicit donations. As such they worked very long hours and it was impossible to clean the office when it was empty since that occured only briefly in the middle of the night. The vac guy ended up using a Filter Queen on low speed with a straght suction nozzle. It was quiet enough to be used when people were working but still had enough suction without a powerhead to clean the low pile carpet.

Post# 293212 , Reply# 5   8/12/2014 at 19:47 (3,534 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)        

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I'll bet THIS was the Swivel-Top you speak of! I absolutely LOVE this vacuum, it was a gift from a man who wanted his mother's cleaner to go to a good home (Sir, if you're reading this, thank you again, from me and the GE!).
Post# 293218 , Reply# 6   8/12/2014 at 20:23 (3,534 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)        

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My love of vacuum cleaners is a result of this: I am a highly sensitive person who grew up in a very nervous, anxious and chaotic family environment. Our vacuum cleaner seemed to me to be a magical machine that removed the chaos and brought some peaceful order to the carpets and floors I played on.

Though I first was extremely afraid of our Eureka Automatic 260 upright, somehow that fear turned into fascination in a few short years. If you look at my avatar, you can how these Eurekas looked like a grumbly, mean face: the headlight looked like angry eyes, the tool port cover looked like a nose and the front edge looked like a mouth with an upper lip (the bumper). Pretty scary for a 3 year old toddler!

Post# 293227 , Reply# 7   8/12/2014 at 21:15 (3,534 days old) by hydralique (Los Angeles)        
Super-sweeper . . .

 That's the GE I remember or one that's very close. It's such an elegant piece of design, I love the little striations on the tools and prefer the green to pink or other colors GE used. And of course a little chrome always helps! Can you still get bags for it? How powerful is the motor? Thanks for posting!

Post# 293239 , Reply# 8   8/12/2014 at 22:42 (3,534 days old) by Paul (USA)        

Interesting that you mentioned the striations. Vertical lines seem to be a carnival-like design flair of many 1960s items--including batten molding of vertical siding (often painted a secondary color during that era), awnings, Tastee-Freez and Kentucky Fried Chicken food and beverage containers, Pepsi-Cola bottle carriers, soda jerks' vests, aprons, and hats, the opening sequence of the TV show MY THREE SONS, the ribbing of Electrolux's PN-1 wands and Kirby attachments, the Electrolux tan Model G box, and so forth.

Post# 293257 , Reply# 9   8/13/2014 at 00:38 (3,534 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)        

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The motor is not the most powerful, but it gets EVERYTHING and ANYTHING that's in the rug, thanks to the lovely twin-clean nozzle! It's ultra-quiet, too! To my knowledge, bags are still easily found. I have a couple 1960s bags for it, but those are in the secret stash! Tom might have his vacuum museum,but I have my personal vacuum bag museum!! I just put a fresh DVC bag in the vacuum the other day,I was shocked at the amount of dog fur that was in the bag! I always underestimate that nozzle! It came with it's original tools.I usually don't use them, but they're cool tools for 1963, especially the Drapery Tool! tongue-out
Post# 293262 , Reply# 10   8/13/2014 at 01:59 (3,534 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)        

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I've also always been interested in electric fans, wind tunnels, acoustic sirens, air boats, helicopters, jet plane engines, jet backpacks (LOVED the film "ROCKETEER"), pretty much anything with a fan in it.

Post# 293279 , Reply# 11   8/13/2014 at 07:21 (3,534 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada)        

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I have a GE Swivel top also....there are pics of it as well as the manual in my photo album.

Gary

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