Thread Number: 27639
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
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Post# 309066 , Reply# 1   12/17/2014 at 15:56 (3,389 days old) by HisMastersVoice (Ferndale, MI)   |   | |
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Post# 309108 , Reply# 2   12/17/2014 at 21:52 (3,389 days old) by Firebirdman55 (Owensboro Kentucky)   |   | |
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Post# 309109 , Reply# 3   12/17/2014 at 21:59 (3,389 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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Being around my aunt who came from Ireland, We heard "Hoovering" all our lives. We either "Hoover" or "run the Hoover".because every family member always had a real "HOOVER". Now, one has a Bissel, one a Dyson "Ball", and one just got a Shark Rotator. I saw the box on the curb on trash night. She already went through 2 HOOVERS.... could have had them serviced. The ones from Ireland loved the headlight so you could "HOOVER in the dark".
"Happy HOOVERING" |
Post# 309116 , Reply# 4   12/18/2014 at 00:00 (3,389 days old) by vintagevaclover (Athens, GA)   |   | |
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Post# 309173 , Reply# 5   12/18/2014 at 13:30 (3,388 days old) by anthony (leeds uk)   |   | |
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Post# 309174 , Reply# 6   12/18/2014 at 13:59 (3,388 days old) by Kirbysthebest (Midwest)   |   | |
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My Mom always "ran the sweeper". |
Post# 309176 , Reply# 7   12/18/2014 at 14:19 (3,388 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa)   |   | |
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Post# 309234 , Reply# 8   12/19/2014 at 06:59 (3,388 days old) by MIDCENTURYFAN (Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England)   |   | |
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Post# 309251 , Reply# 9   12/19/2014 at 10:27 (3,387 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)   |   | |
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My mother always "Ran the Sweeper". It was a Rainbow, so I don't think she would "rainbow" the rugs. It was always "I need to sweep the carpets, get out the sweeper for me and fill it up". I heard that every Saturday for many years growing up. I didn't know anyone who had an upright vacuum, and I didn't know anyone who had a Hoover. Virtually everyone had a door to door canister (I was born in 1962). Only one person I knew had a Kenmore. Compacts, Rainbows, Filter Queens, and Electrolux were all I grew up with, seems everyone in our small town had one of those four.
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Post# 309326 , Reply# 10   12/20/2014 at 02:50 (3,387 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC)   |   | |
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For me while growing up--my Mom or Dad called their Kirby "The electric sweeper"The fridge was the "electric icebox"and the new at the time food disposer-Mom called it "The electric Pig"! |
Post# 309340 , Reply# 11   12/20/2014 at 05:18 (3,387 days old) by Turbo500 (West Yorkshire, UK)   |   | |
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Post# 309394 , Reply# 13   12/20/2014 at 17:15 (3,386 days old) by citroenbx (england)   |   | |
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Post# 309468 , Reply# 14   12/21/2014 at 11:08 (3,385 days old) by portapower (BRUNSWICK)   |   | |
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Looks like it was a term mostly from the British Isles. Don't know how my family got into using this phrase--- they're not from over there. Anyway, I'll be HOOVERING later today. |
Post# 309540 , Reply# 16   12/22/2014 at 01:40 (3,385 days old) by hygiene903 (Galion, OH)   |   | |
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We run the sweeper in my area too! Here's a couple pics of me running the sweeper during a mini-meet at my house about 5 years ago, one being my Hoover 28 and the other my Kirby D-50.
Jeff |
Post# 309547 , Reply# 17   12/22/2014 at 03:33 (3,385 days old) by BrianKirbyClass (Eudora Kansas)   |   | |
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We had a neighbor lady once when i was a kid who couldnt say any words with the letter S in them , and would always put a T in its place.
Very poor English, i know, but i think she had a speach inpediment, and was mentally off a little. Poor thing. Anyway,she always called her vacuum a "sweeper", or in her case, a TWEEPER! She knew i had a thing for vacuums as a kid, and would call, or come over and ask if i wanted to Run her TWEEPER. (It was a beat up old Hoover Convertible, the green hood, Brady Bunch model.) I did go over a few times to vacuum for her, but she had a house full of cats, and must have vacuumed up cat litter AND all that goes with it, because the exhaust from her TWEEPER , STUNK like CAT POOP! |
Post# 309558 , Reply# 18   12/22/2014 at 07:13 (3,385 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada)   |   | |
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Growing up and to this day I have only ever heard any one refer to it as a vacuum and the action of 'I am going to do the vacuuming' or 'I vacuumed today'. My grandmother, being born in the Ukraine had a hard time to pronounce the letter 'v' which sounded like a 'w' when speaking English so it sounded like she was saying 'wacuum'.
Gary |
Post# 309619 , Reply# 19   12/22/2014 at 17:39 (3,384 days old) by BrianKirbyClass (Eudora Kansas)   |   | |
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Post# 309928 , Reply# 20   12/25/2014 at 22:51 (3,381 days old) by vacuumkid47 (Sibley, IA)   |   | |
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Post# 309931 , Reply# 21   12/25/2014 at 23:12 (3,381 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2)   |   | |
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Post# 309936 , Reply# 22   12/26/2014 at 03:11 (3,381 days old) by cb123 (Mobile, Al.)   |   | |
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