Thread Number: 40513
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Kirby Classic III spotted on 'Halt and Catch Fire' |
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Post# 430345   8/20/2020 at 12:26 (1,316 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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So I've started binge watching this series on Netflix called 'Halt and Catch Fire' about the early days of the PC industry (it apparently originally ran on Netflix from 2014 to 2017). I'm only about four episodes into it and a red Kirby Classic III has showed up at least twice, once being used by a housekeeper and another time in a basement storage area, where it drew a character's attention because the floor was concrete. It was kind of fun to see, even though the machine would have been several years and a couple of models old as the show starts off in 1983, which would be at the beginning of the Heritage era. maybe that's even more realistic. At least they didn't err in the other direction with, say, a Legend II.
I enjoy period pieces like that, especially seeing the vintage appliances, vehicles and so forth that they use and so far, I have to hand it to the producers of 'HCF' for getting things right as sometimes producers get it laughably wrong. Case in point: 'Hidden Figures' (2016). In the opening scene, Taraji P. Henderson expresses amazement that a white policeman in 1961 is giving them an escort to work (after previously hassling them beside the road) but what's even more amazing is he's doing it in a 1964 Ford Galaxie police cruiser! Later in the movie, the same vehicle is seen on patrol at "Cape Canaveral". Another scene clearly shows a 1968 Volkswagen Squareback parked alongside the road--in 1962! |
Post# 430353 , Reply# 2   8/20/2020 at 15:31 (1,316 days old) by Ultralux88 (Denver, Colorado)   |   | |
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