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Post# 357344   8/8/2016 at 19:28 (2,788 days old) by mchmike (West palm beach fl)        

Check out the phone number .

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Post# 357347 , Reply# 1   8/8/2016 at 21:27 (2,788 days old) by cb123 (Mobile, Al.)        

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I can see how that could be construed that way, but for me it takes a fine geriatric Kirby to get the old torpedo racing!laughing 


Post# 357367 , Reply# 2   8/9/2016 at 11:23 (2,788 days old) by Caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut)        

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Okay, maybe I'm dense, but I don't get it. I see nothing off-color in the Electrolux handout.

To cb123, send me a private message and explaine it to me.


Post# 357380 , Reply# 3   8/9/2016 at 17:11 (2,788 days old) by eronie (Flushing Michigan)        

i don't get it either?

Post# 357382 , Reply# 4   8/9/2016 at 17:13 (2,788 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)        

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Nor did I.......


Post# 357385 , Reply# 5   8/9/2016 at 18:20 (2,787 days old) by CharlesKirby66 (Manteca, CA)        
I think I get it

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So, cb123 is saying this thread isn't quite his idea of "porn", although he can appreciate others may think so.  He would need to see an old Kirby ad/pamphlet/brochure etc. to qualify as the aforementioned "porn".

 

Right???  LOL


Post# 357396 , Reply# 6   8/9/2016 at 22:21 (2,787 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)        

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The alphanumeric phone number GR2-7302 translates to 472-7302. Big deal. That's the way phone numbers were expressed until sometime in the 1960s, perhaps even into late as the early '70s in some places. Each two-letter 'exchange' usually had a word associated with it. My grandparents' phone number prefix was 787, which was the 'sunset' exchange when the number was issued in the mid '50s. How in the world people remembered all those word mnemonics, I'll never know. Of course, today we can't even remember phone numbers because we just store them in our cell phones and call them up by the person's name.

Post# 357398 , Reply# 7   8/9/2016 at 22:33 (2,787 days old) by cb123 (Mobile, Al.)        

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Bingo!!! Give CharlesKirby66 a cigar...Your the MAN and part of the VCCC intelligentsia, highbrow elites!!! Yes, this "Thread " is rich with metaphors, figures of speech, and so forth and so on just as its title suggests. Now, perhaps, we can have a little exercise in allegories and fables....Hey, wait just a minute here! electrolux137, your a naughty, naughty boy, for didn't you promise me that you would never again read another one of my posts! Please tell me you wasn't fibbing! Please, please say it ain't so! cry 


Post# 357407 , Reply# 8   8/10/2016 at 06:34 (2,787 days old) by vacerator (Macomb Michigan)        
Old phone numbers

had two prefix digits. In the AT&T days, GR2-1212 was the number to call for the time. There was also a number to call which would call your phone back.

Post# 357421 , Reply# 9   8/10/2016 at 10:50 (2,787 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)        
Our rotary dial phone had

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OL4 on it. It stood for "olympia"...it was 654 OR 655, as we had both in my city. We were 654, my uncle was 655, but theoperators called it, "Olympia or olympic"

Post# 357422 , Reply# 10   8/10/2016 at 10:51 (2,787 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)        
Model G Porn

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Probably has to have an actual Model G in it. These are mine. I drool over them every day. So lucky and blessed to have GREAT friends who share with me, and the Vacuum Museum.

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Post# 357433 , Reply# 11   8/10/2016 at 12:32 (2,787 days old) by vacerator (Macomb Michigan)        
Did it also come

in all turquoise? Looks like my aunts I used to play with when I was about four.

Post# 357434 , Reply# 12   8/10/2016 at 13:27 (2,787 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)        

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There was indeed a turquoise Model G that in fact was manufactured for far longer (1960-67 with several variations) than the tan Hospital G shown above. The Hospital G was a very limited production run intended for use in hospitals and other places where better filtration and softer motor sound was desirable.

 

Here are five other versions of the Model G, in no particular order...

 

1. Turquoise Model G (this photo is of Michael LaBue's beautiful machine)

 

2. Metallic Tan Model G

 

3. Metallic Gray Model G, a factory-rebuilt machine (they also did some in metallic turquoise)

 

4. Off-white Model Hospital G with turquoise trim

 

5. Gold Model G, a salesman's trophy for top sales (not sold to consumers)


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Post# 357435 , Reply# 13   8/10/2016 at 14:41 (2,787 days old) by cb123 (Mobile, Al.)        

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I like to call this one the little window peepshow. There's nothin' which smells any better than a fine, vintage piece of equipment. Well, with the exception of just one other thing that is. laughing 


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Post# 357452 , Reply# 14   8/10/2016 at 18:48 (2,786 days old) by rugsucker (Elizabethton TN)        
Who would you call at--

--BR-549?

Elux trivia-The above card shows 3 atts.Some AF/G cards showed 2 when the crevice tool was considered optional.


Post# 357457 , Reply# 15   8/10/2016 at 20:37 (2,786 days old) by cb123 (Mobile, Al.)        

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...The Ghost Busters!


Post# 357458 , Reply# 16   8/10/2016 at 21:22 (2,786 days old) by Marks_here (_._)        
Reply# 14

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Junior Samples LOL

Post# 357478 , Reply# 17   8/11/2016 at 10:12 (2,786 days old) by kirbyvertibles (Independence, KS)        

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Charles,
I have a question about the Golden G.
The hose I see is off white with gold stripe and the attachments seem to be the white matching the trim. What color would the power nozzle have been? I have a spare white pn 1 with a light grey colored bumper and I'm considering painting the bumper gold as well as the lettering so it will match my Golden G.
Very odd, my Gold G has the pn plug on the front as well as one on the metal strip on top like the AF and neither one of them is wired for use? The wires are just capped off.


Post# 357499 , Reply# 18   8/11/2016 at 18:05 (2,786 days old) by RUGSUCKER (Elizabethton TN)        
Junior Samples--

--is correct!But there is no prize (unless you can get him to make a deal on the Edsel).

Post# 357501 , Reply# 19   8/11/2016 at 19:06 (2,785 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)        

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Phillip, I've never seen the power nozzle that went with the Gold Model G, if there was one -- and I kinda doubt it. Being a sales prize, it was most likely just the straight-suction setup that could be used with a standard power nozzle if the recipient wished to do so.

 

 


Post# 357697 , Reply# 20   8/15/2016 at 09:03 (2,782 days old) by kirbyvertibles (Independence, KS)        

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That makes sense. Thanks!!!


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