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Thread Number: 37661
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Like my pink sugar walls - so Lewyt |
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| Post# 401512 11/27/2018 at 10:17 (1,975 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
I felt the need to clean with something vintage this Thanksgiving season. After my in-laws left, I got out my 1956 Lewyt Model 81. The last Lewyt canister (round) they made. And it's so PANK. Now to find the appropriate pumps to wear while cleaning. I already have the apron. And so, for the 1950's housewife, here is the Lewyt 81.
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| Post# 401513 , Reply# 1 11/27/2018 at 10:18 (1,975 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
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The attachments have their own carrier. Lewyt used the same hose that Rexair was using on the gold Model D.
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| Post# 401514 , Reply# 2 11/27/2018 at 10:19 (1,975 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
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The Swivel Base, mounted directly to the bottom of the dirt container, was a nod to General Electric and Eureka, Lewyt's two biggest competitors.
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| Post# 401515 , Reply# 3 11/27/2018 at 10:22 (1,975 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
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As pretty as anything under the tree. Thanks to Alex Braun for the Lewyt. My husband thinks it's a hoot. Thanks also to Hans Craig for a box of the original Speed Saks. It's good to have friends.
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| Post# 401523 , Reply# 4 11/27/2018 at 11:16 (1,975 days old) by completenutt (West Hollywood, California) | ||
So fabulous! | ||
| Post# 401537 , Reply# 5 11/27/2018 at 15:58 (1,974 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
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Post# 401540 , Reply# 6 11/27/2018 at 17:44 (1,974 days old) by vacuumlad1650  (Wauponsee, IL) |
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| Post# 401543 , Reply# 7 11/27/2018 at 19:20 (1,974 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
My Grandma Molly had the (almost) identical model! Except instead of pink, it was mostly light brown with light brown tools - maybe from 1955 or 1954. One of her siblings who had moved to New York must have brought it up to Montreal for her from Brooklyn - an 8 hour drive.
Whenever I visited Grandma Molly in her apartment in the 1960’s, she allowed me to play with all the cool attachments. I never took the canister+hose out of the closet...just took out the wands and the nifty tool box. She had the identical picture on the front of the instruction manual - the lady in the picture taught me the correct way to hold a canister’s hose when cleaning carpets and floors! That little button on the front of the carpet nozzle always mystified me. I think it pushed down a metal rod - maybe for cleaning shag rugs? Thanks for the childhood memories! | ||
| Post# 401547 , Reply# 8 11/27/2018 at 20:33 (1,974 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
Wow! That machine brings back some memories! We had one almost just like that when I was little; in fact, it's the first vacuum cleaner I have a memory of. Ours had a pink motor on a charcoal gray canister base and pink tools as well. I remember it being very easy to handle. The canister, with its swivel caster base, followed me around very naturally as I vacuumed a room. I was pretty much a master of this machine by the time I was four or five.
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| Post# 401602 , Reply# 9 11/28/2018 at 17:38 (1,973 days old) by royalfan (Chicago) | ||
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