Who is familiar with Toledo Ohio..

~
~

Hans, I google-mapped this address. Bishop Street is a narrow, barely three-block-long street, really not much more than just an alley.

There are several old commercial buildings on the street. Below are some screen shots of the one that looks like it most likely could have been a vacuum cleaner factory. The business currently in the building is Row Electrical Equipment Co., Inc.

The address shown for Row Electrical is 3300 Bishop St. Could it be that there was a typo in the address for Saniway, that it might have been 3310 and not 8310? Another possibility is that the building address numbering could have been changed at some point in time. Either way, the street just isn't long enough to go from a 3000-block address to an 8000-block address.

There's another fairly large commercial building across the street from Row Electrical, on the opposite corner. It's currently a Banner Mattress plant. But it's not nearly as large as the Row Electrical building.

Here are two links to the google page if you want to go there yourself.

The first one is the map view:

Google Map View

Bishop Street is right in the middle of the map.

Then here's the street view:

Google Street View

You can move the view around with your cursor and the little rotating directional-wheel at the lower-right corner.

Photos... < > Photo 1 of 4 View Full Size


Forum Topics & Rules Manuals & Literature	New users Click-here to sign-up

Post# 296276 8/31/2014 at 15:36 (3,517 days old) by kenkart ()
Checkrate/Likes I found out that the Saniway company was located at 8310 Bishop Street Toledo Oh.

Post# 296319 , Reply# 1 9/1/2014 at 03:12 (3,516 days old) by vacuumssuck213 ()
Checkrate/Likes *The only thing I know about toledo is that I believe corporal klinger from the TV series mash. Was from there.*

Post# 296824 , Reply# 2 9/3/2014 at 10:32 (3,514 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)
Checkrate/Likes *Google Maps to the Rescue!* ~ ~ Hans, I google-mapped this address. Bishop Street is a narrow, barely three-block-long street, really not much more than just an alley. There are several old commercial buildings on the street. Below are some screen shots of the one that looks like it most likely could have been a vacuum cleaner factory. The business currently in the building is Row Electrical Equipment Co., Inc. The address shown for Row Electrical is 3300 Bishop St. Could it be that there was a typo in the address for Saniway, that it might have been 3310 and not 8310? Another possibility is that the building address numbering could have been changed at some point in time. Either way, the street just isn't long enough to go from a 3000-block address to an 8000-block address. There's another fairly large commercial building across the street from Row Electrical, on the opposite corner. It's currently a Banner Mattress plant. But it's not nearly as large as the Row Electrical building. Here are two links to the google page if you want to go there yourself. The first one is the map view: Google Map View Bishop Street is right in the middle of the map. Then here's the street view: Google Street View You can move the view around with your cursor and the little rotating directional-wheel at the lower-right corner. Photos... < > Photo 1 of 4 View Full Size

Post# 296861 , Reply# 3 9/3/2014 at 13:08 (3,514 days old) by Caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut)
Checkrate/Likes *Toledo, Ohio, and Vacuum cleaners?* Who can forget Air-Way? they did to Toledo what Kirby did to Cleveland, and Hoover did to North Canton. As was pointed out to us at the Cleveland Wood Company, the cleveland/Toledo area was mecca for the vacuum cleaner industry.

Post# 296864 , Reply# 4 9/3/2014 at 13:13 (3,514 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)
Checkrate/Likes Hans: The Sani-Way vacuum cleaner wasn't manufactured by Sani-Way, it was manufactured by Kingston. It was a private label for Sani-Way. I imagine that the company in Toledo needed more warehouse space than anything else. Sani-Way did have a door to door program, they probably trained the distributors in the offices. There were three 'versions' of Sani-Way, the first was gold with brown accent trim (same colors as a Golden Monarch Filthy Queen), then the magenta color with flat casters, then the magenta color with ball casters (copying Compact). I believe that 1971 was the last year for Sani-Way.

Post# 296883 , Reply# 5 9/3/2014 at 14:38 (3,514 days old) by kenkart ()
Checkrate/Likes *I knew the machine was just a re badged Kingston* Especially the brown one, I once knew a man named Cyrus Fox who was the distributor for Saniway for the state of NC, he started with the company in 60 soon after it was formed, he told me the man who started the company was the AirWay distributor for the state of Georgia, Cyrus worked for him there as a dealer in Atlanta, he told me the Mark iv came out in 64, and that the ball casters and vinyl hose came out in 71, the man who started the company died of a heart attack in 76 and his wife shut it down.

Post# 296894 , Reply# 6 9/3/2014 at 15:20 (3,514 days old) by tig21er (Indiana)
Checkrate/Likes *The* Sani-way , Kingston, Germatron and Royal canister were built at Bronson , Michigan. The Royal was also a rebadged Kingston. They also built for Western Auto called the Rambler and for Firestone. Sorry I can't recall the name. They also made steering gears for the GM autos.

Post# 296896 , Reply# 7 9/3/2014 at 15:38 (3,514 days old) by tig21er (Indiana)
Checkrate/Likes *The* factory at Bronson is just about 110-125 miles from Toledo . It was located just over the Indiana border about 10 miles . We only had to drive about 140 miles to get there ourselves when we went to get machines. My father was good a friend of the plant manager and he would sometimes come down and see us.

Post# 296947 , Reply# 8 9/3/2014 at 20:08 (3,514 days old) by kenkart ()
Checkrate/Likes *I have an idea* That tjhe Bishop street address was just a shipping terminal/business office..

Post# 296998 , Reply# 9 9/4/2014 at 04:49 (3,513 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC)
Checkrate/Likes NSS vacuums and equipment are made in Toledo,Ohio.Surprized that hasn't come up here.