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Post# 301920   10/15/2014 at 07:41 (3,479 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)        

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Actually this was the vacuum cleaner that my parents had when I was born, they kept it through until the early 70's when my parents bought a Kenmore...

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Post# 301922 , Reply# 1   10/15/2014 at 07:47 (3,479 days old) by kenkart ()        
This is

One machine that has always seemed unfindable...thanks for these articles, they are great!


Post# 301924 , Reply# 2   10/15/2014 at 08:31 (3,479 days old) by hismastersvoice (Ferndale, MI)        

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I had almost forgotten that we had one of these growing up until I saw this! I think ours was light blue. I remember dragging that thing all around the house cool


Post# 301935 , Reply# 3   10/15/2014 at 11:33 (3,479 days old) by hydralique (Los Angeles)        
Nice Little Vac . . .

And very cool to hear the story behind it, particularly how the design team worked to simplify the construction. I wonder if Eureka made any of these for private labels like they did with so many of their vacs?


Post# 301951 , Reply# 4   10/15/2014 at 15:50 (3,478 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)        

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Thanks so much for this! What an enlightening article!

So cool to read that the famous Eureka Williams "E" logo was called the "flying E"!

Nice to learn the name of a Eureka engineer, and the name of the company that supplied the braided hoses for the company.

Indeed, this little turtle-shaped vac was also sold under a variety of department store brandnames such as Viking and Baycrest and Beaumark in Canada, and Wards and JCPenney in the USA. I think there was even a Wizard version for Western Auto.

Funny...I always thought the Eureka 1960's blue was turquoise! Now I learn that it is called lagoon blue!!


Post# 318140 , Reply# 5   3/13/2015 at 06:59 (3,330 days old) by constellation86 (Roy, UT)        

The link above doesn't work anymore. Is there any way I could see the article?
Nicholas


Post# 318143 , Reply# 6   3/13/2015 at 10:33 (3,330 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)        

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I took that website down Nicholas because it turned out to be much more work for me than I originally anticipated to keep it up.

However, I will eventually make most of those articles available in due time on Automatic Ephemera. Some will be free to preview. I've been experimenting with a low-resolution preview system on AE for certain public domain trade magazines. I just posted the September 1958 issue of Modern Packaging with a preview of all 236 pages yesterday.

You can click on the image on each page to go to the next page or use the controls at the top of the image, check it out...


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Post# 318147 , Reply# 7   3/13/2015 at 11:11 (3,330 days old) by constellation86 (Roy, UT)        

Thanks for the info Robert, I'll be waiting on pins and needles for this one. I'm always surprised by the high quality scans on Automatic Ephemera, most of them look brand new.
Nicholas



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