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Thread Number: 31923
/ Tag: Recent Vacuum Cleaners from past 20 years
Vacuum department experiences? |
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| Post# 351911 5/9/2016 at 18:58 (2,907 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA) | ||
What have been your favorite experiences in the vacuum department or vacuum shop?
Mine would probably be when I got to visit the vacuum shop as a kid. My favorite department store to look at vacuums in now is Sears, they have the most selection, and it's fun to see what vacuums are on clearance. I also like to see which bagless ones have dust in them. But the funny thing is I never really see anyone demoing them, or in that department really. My favorite time there was when I was looking at the canisters and Owl City Fireflies was playing. :) | ||
Post# 352043 , Reply# 3 5/11/2016 at 19:34 (2,905 days old) by gottahaveahoove  (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640) |
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As a child, I loved looking at all of the Hoovers
at "The Boston Store". They were all so clean and shiny. no scratches. THen, "The Globe Store" in Scranton had a great display, too. Once a month, they's have a "Warehouse sale"...showing all kinds of things at reduced prices.
THere was a great Hoover store in /wilkes-Barre, Gnall Jones, now deceased. He was great, and was very 'animated'. He had a Hoover bag cleaner. He'd pick up and deliver your machine. A great guy. John. | ||
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Post# 352046 , Reply# 4 5/11/2016 at 20:23 (2,905 days old) by Adam-aussie-vac ( Canberra, Australia ) |
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Godfreys Vacuum Cleaners
my favorite vacuum cleaner memory was the lovey lady at the local vacuum shop giving me my now prized hoover celebrity
(as i used to help out there and make visits to see the trade-ins and show them my collection) them the woman said to me we would rather have old vacuums go to a vacuum collector than to the rubbish tip. | ||
| Post# 352056 , Reply# 5 5/12/2016 at 01:00 (2,905 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
The only time I remember going to a vacuum shop that did repairs was in about 1995 when I lived in Greenville, N.C. and rescued a nice Eureka upright from beside the dumpster. It was missing the sole plate and the lady at the shop was very pleasant and offered to order me one for $27. I didn't buy it and ended up donating the vacuum cleaner, but remember it as a positive experience nonetheless.
Fast forward a few years to Sears at Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem, N.C., where the saleswoman did a superbly slick sales job on she who was then my fiancee and is now ex-wife. In about ten minutes' time, she had that woman totally convinced that her life just wouldn't be complete without a $375 Kenmore Progressive canister--and guess whose Sears MasterCard it went on. I guess I should be thankful a Kirby salesman never came to the door. I wish I had never laid eyes on that turd of an over-priced cheapo plasticrap vacuum cleaner--or the woman I married, but that's another rant altogether. That sick joke of a machine started falling apart within eight months. Sears did fix it the first time, but then the one year warranty ran out and I had to buy the parts--from Sears, of course--to fix it the second time. Then I finally wised up and left her and that sorry vacuum cleaner before it broke the third time. The ironic thing was we got that POS to replace her Electrolux Discovery II upright. It probably just needed a new brush roll but she wouldn't have even entertained the thought of looking into that. If there was a reasonably affordable solution and a ridiculously expensive solution, she'd go for the most costly one every time on the theory that it had to be superior by virtue of its larger price tag. | ||
| Post# 352075 , Reply# 6 5/12/2016 at 16:16 (2,904 days old) by compactc9guy (Bathurst NB) | ||
My memories was a at least 10 years ago they had a old thrift shop filled whit old vacuum cleaner heaven to me . I must say haha .They had a electrolux e 2000 i unclog the hose put a new bag and it purrs back to life sold it to a old man needing a cheap cleaner .Id get trades in for free or small fee .Id go in spend my summer there fixing the vacuum or hang in out trying old vacs no one said a thing i told em i was a collector odd ball lat first but finally i had found a place to explore old vacuum cleaner .They were really nice to me .God i miss that place old vacuum the smell of old books filled the air aah a paradise for young me 16 or 17 at the time . Playing whit old vacs told jokes an even sold a few there to was really nice .i remember one time i had got my hands on this old ,hoover quick broom stick vac whit hose bag less work great after i unclog the unit .kept it fora few years until the bearing went out .Was a wonderfull time and place i miss it to this day
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| Post# 352153 , Reply# 8 5/14/2016 at 15:56 (2,902 days old) by delaneymeegan (Mary Richards lived here) | ||
1980-81 Sears store 
I was like 12 and I saw the Kenmore vacuum I wanted in a weekly sales ad from the news paper. It was 2nd or 3rd from TOL. My parents agreed to buy it for me if I paid them back over time.
When we got to Sears, they didn't have any of the model I showed the sales clerk, but he agreed to sell us a TOL for the same price, which I believe was $299. I really had my heart set on the one in the ad, but I settled for the TOL.
A year later, we would be back to buy a smaller canister for $97+/-, without a power nozzle, after selling the TOL to our neighbor.
The pictures show a Sears Vac dept. in late 1982 as they are changing over stock. So you see some of the older stock which is what one would have seen in 80 to 81. The second picture shows a similar model to what I wanted. The only difference is there was no wood grain on top, it was just almond with white bumper. CLICK HERE TO GO TO delaneymeegan's LINK | ||
| Post# 352156 , Reply# 9 5/14/2016 at 16:33 (2,902 days old) by reliablevacuum (Fargo, ND) | ||
I never set foot in a vacuum store until I got into the cleaning business. Then I was in one about once a month. For a few years I worked part time at Sears in the vacuum department while my cleaning business was getting up and running.
Now, 7 years later, I started a vacuum store!! I love the business and the opportunity to do things the big box stores cannot do. | ||
| Post# 352191 , Reply# 10 5/15/2016 at 15:49 (2,901 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA) | ||
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Wow, that canister in the picture with the big Sale sign on it looks just like the one my mother had. She bought it in 1982 or 83, and it was still going in 1999 when she replaced it with one of the last flat-body Whispertone canisters.
Before that one she had an avocado green one from the 70s, but I don't have any memories of it other than we still had the attachments for it. We don't have a Target here, but I don't look much at the vacuums at Walmart either, although the one here does have a few Eureka canisters now. Kmart's selection is surprisingly not bad, but it's mostly just a scaled down assortment of what Sears has. I never knew Belk used to sell vacuums! | ||
| Post# 352214 , Reply# 12 5/15/2016 at 23:06 (2,901 days old) by delaneymeegan (Mary Richards lived here) | ||
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Those pics could be nearly any mall based Sears back then.
I got my vacs at Brookfield Square in Brookfield, WI. I returned in late 1983 to buy the TOL model which had the power switch on the wand.
Southwyke was demolished in 2008. Along with hundreds of other malls around the country, it was abandoned superfluous retail space that's expensive to maintain. And there will be many more to see such a demise.
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