Thread Number: 39835
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Working on The Hoover Gallery during this "exile" |
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Post# 422881   4/6/2020 at 12:37 (1,451 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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Everyday, I'm spending time working in the "cats'apartment'.
I'm preparing for the carpenter to spend 1 day in there, installing cabinets, a bar sink, and track lighting. I have 1 more wall to tear down.I'm finding long-forgotten stuff. There are vac toys, bags (forever), books, tools, all kinds of Hoover cleaners. It's amazing. This will be a marvelous display room when The VCCC comes here, now in 2022. |
Post# 422882 , Reply# 1   4/6/2020 at 13:15 (1,451 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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Post# 422883 , Reply# 2   4/6/2020 at 13:17 (1,451 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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It was initially used, I believe, as the maid's room. When the house was ruined (cut into an apartment), it was the kitchen. Now this barn top ceiling, 2 steps down from the rest of the house , has a banister inside the wall. When that wall comes down, the room will become a "loft". I've put a "Pittston" coal stove up there. They were manufactured 4 buildings down the street. I love restoring history. There are also a few Coca Cola items, as well as local artifacts.I was have the plexiglass sign for The Pittston Hospital.. Grablick's dairy made fantastic ice cream, etc. Ice cream containers, milk bottles, and other local artifacts will be in one corner. In a nice, newly constructs closet will house Christmas decorations and Hoover "parts", etc will be house there. But,I'm preparing a wonderful space to exhibit outstanding Hoover Company products.
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Post# 422884 , Reply# 3   4/6/2020 at 13:19 (1,451 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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Post# 422993 , Reply# 4   4/8/2020 at 12:21 (1,449 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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Post# 423003 , Reply# 6   4/8/2020 at 14:15 (1,449 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 423598 , Reply# 7   4/16/2020 at 01:09 (1,442 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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Post# 423599 , Reply# 8   4/16/2020 at 01:32 (1,442 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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Post# 423667 , Reply# 9   4/17/2020 at 14:06 (1,440 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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Post# 423672 , Reply# 10   4/17/2020 at 15:26 (1,440 days old) by vacuumlad1650 (Wauponsee, IL)   |   | |
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Post# 423688 , Reply# 12   4/17/2020 at 23:58 (1,440 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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This house was built in the 1870s, by Charles Curry, a baker.It was then sold to Abraham Fiegleman, a jeweler. He and his wife, Rose, are the ones who turned the place into an apartment for their son, Marvin, when he got married. That happened in 1942. Horrible things were done to the house at that time.
Mr.s F died in Pittston Hospital the night before she was to come home. My parents got married in June of 1958, and made this their home. The "apartment" was rented until 1985. Then, I started the "restoration", getting rid of the apartment. I've taken down 4 chimneys, 7 walls, etc. Inside a wall is where I "found" the banister, thus returning that "staircase" to it's former status. I spoke to Dr. Fiegleman, an optometrist, about the place. I believe he has since passed. He'd be well over 90 now. It's a great old place. I learned that the house was built atop an old cemetery. Fun!! And, yes, I WAS a part of The Pittston Historical Society. I co-wrote and directed a documentary on The Pittston Hospital. |
Post# 423691 , Reply# 13   4/18/2020 at 01:16 (1,440 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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Post# 423736 , Reply# 15   4/19/2020 at 01:15 (1,439 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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I've found lots of things in the backyard, etc.
It is built on a hill. About 25 yrs ago, a concrete slab was going in front of the door. When "Bob" noticed that they hadn't dug deep enough (frost line). I started cleaning up, where I discover bones. It was the pelvis of a small child!I told the carpenters to "put back anything they find". I had visions of yellow tape all over the place, TV reporters, religious freaks, etc converging on the front yard. 2 "ghost hunters" and a "medium" have been here. It's been called LOTS of things: a museum, library, funeral home, MORTUARY,etc. It was after a minimeet, years ago, that one of my friends dubbed it "the palace". Silly, but, hey.......................... Suffice it to say, "things" HAVE happened here. It's NEVER bothered me, ever. |
Post# 423834 , Reply# 17   4/20/2020 at 14:59 (1,437 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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When I removed a wall between the TV room and the 'library', a bunch of stuff fell: photos, paper dolls, hair curlers, etc.
One pic was a little girl, standing by a Xmas tree. I wonder who she was. Did she die here? Marry from here? sell the place? Her whole life came and left. I feel she silently looks over the place. I wonder if/hope they used Hoovers!I know the Fieglemans had a GE upright. My late mother got rid of that quickly. |