Thread Number: 36915
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
The vacuum basement is getting there |
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Post# 394682   7/11/2018 at 10:46 (2,116 days old) by Kenkart ()   |   | |
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About 96 percent of the machines are here |
Post# 394683 , Reply# 1   7/11/2018 at 11:25 (2,116 days old) by toddk13 (Milwaukee, WI)   |   | |
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Speechless. What a fantastic collection! |
Post# 394685 , Reply# 2   7/11/2018 at 13:04 (2,116 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)   |   | |
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Post# 394689 , Reply# 3   7/11/2018 at 13:48 (2,116 days old) by kenkart ()   |   | |
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to do me in with the heat, my back and shoulder are some better |
Post# 394716 , Reply# 4   7/11/2018 at 20:57 (2,115 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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The pink and gray Lewyt in the first and last photos is just like the one we had when I was little! It was the first vacuum cleaner I ever used. You didn't happen to pick it up in Raleigh, did you? Mom and Dad donated their Lewyt like that to the Vietnam veterans' thrift store in about 1996. I've never seen another one like it.
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Post# 394722 , Reply# 6   7/11/2018 at 22:07 (2,115 days old) by vacuumlad1650 (Wauponsee, IL)   |   | |
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Post# 394728 , Reply# 7   7/11/2018 at 23:48 (2,115 days old) by kenkart ()   |   | |
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In the other building with the mixers, The pink Lewyt came from a big house in Myers Park , in Charlotte, it was a lower priced model made about the time of the Electronic, 59-69-61. |
Post# 394779 , Reply# 8   7/12/2018 at 19:48 (2,114 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)   |   | |
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Wow. Just wow. Congratulations on a job well done!
Now that is a real treasure-trove of vacuum cleaner history! Charge $5 for admission and you’ll have some nice spare change in your pocket. I’m still dying to see a solo-shot of that unique Eureka/Wards/JCPenney Princess with the front to back handle. The only time I’ve seen that design was a photo on a pack of bojack Style H bags. It looks like the very unique revised design sold by the Mexican Koblenz company. It’s another rare bird in your vacuum menagerie! |
Post# 394791 , Reply# 10   7/13/2018 at 00:47 (2,114 days old) by hygiene903 (Galion, OH)   |   | |
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Post# 394799 , Reply# 11   7/13/2018 at 06:39 (2,114 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)   |   | |
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Not to worry Hans...whenever you have time and after a well-deserved rest!!!
it was in one of your very first photos....on one of the higher shelves between two other canisters. Most square-shaped Eureka Princesses had the standard handle jutting out from the front edge of the cleaner. The one I am referring to has an odd, large handle on the very top of the unit - in front of the Tool Pak located toward the rear of the hood. Something tells me it may be a rebranded Eureka (Wards or Wizard or JCPenney). |
Post# 394803 , Reply# 12   7/13/2018 at 09:58 (2,114 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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Post# 394809 , Reply# 14   7/13/2018 at 11:42 (2,114 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)   |   | |
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Wouldn't it be cool to have the next Vacuum Collectors Convention in North Carolina instead of the Vacuum Cleaner Museum? Your collection is so amazing, I know all our friends will love it. I know time only moves forward, but how wonderful would it have been to have a collectors meeting like we used to have? When Clay and Mike and everyone could be there again. Maybe we can get Annette Dubner to come from Denver one day, she would love all your uprights.
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Post# 394831 , Reply# 15   7/13/2018 at 15:36 (2,113 days old) by Kenkart ()   |   | |
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Tom. You might have an idea I really hope to thin out the uprights. Maybe keep 20 or so. I hope we can have some kind of meeting here. I would love to get to cook for a crowd |
Post# 394876 , Reply# 16   7/14/2018 at 00:23 (2,113 days old) by portable (Corvallis, OR)   |   | |
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Post# 394921 , Reply# 17   7/14/2018 at 12:49 (2,113 days old) by Royalfan (Chicago)   |   | |
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