Thread Number: 40912
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Lux 1205 used to clean pipe organ |
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Post# 434519   11/3/2020 at 14:19 (1,240 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)   |   | |
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I saw this photo posted on another forum. The Electrolux is being used to clean the innards of a pipe organ.
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Post# 434535 , Reply# 1   11/3/2020 at 22:08 (1,240 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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Electroluxes and pipe organs must have a thing going on. I was watching a documentary series on Amazon Prime Video last week called 'Ultimate Restoration' and one of the episodes was about the restoration of a massive pipe organ at Boardwalk Hall (?) on the Jersey shore. Once they had cleared all the pipes out, an elderly volunteer was vacuuming out 80-year-old dust and dirt with what looked like an Electrolux Model G.
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Post# 434539 , Reply# 2   11/4/2020 at 00:11 (1,240 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC)   |   | |
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Saw this 'Lux vacuum in the same video!!So anxious to hear both organs when they are fully restored!That 'Lux has got a lot of work to do!Sure it will hold up! |
Post# 434541 , Reply# 3   11/4/2020 at 00:28 (1,240 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana)   |   | |
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Wondering if Electrolux had deals with churches? Or maybe they just showed up at church mass? My great grandmother was Baptist and she ended up being a devout Electrolux user.
I am not sure what she owned before then, but she had a Golden Jubilee from the time it was new until maybe 1998 or so when my mother was vacuuming and the motor exploded in a big smoke show (I was there when it happened). The carcass of the vacuum got traded in for a refurbished Olympia One which she kept and the housemaid used (she was too elderly to vacuum or clean house by this point) until her death in 2002. My mother adopted the Electrolux and we used it a bit through 2002-2003 but the brushroll kept not wanting to work properly and then my mom got sucked into the Kirby salesman's pitch after a random doorstop visit in 2003 and the Electrolux got kicked around the house and then into the basement and then the garage where it's remained since the mid 2000's. Still have it, but likely needs a lot of work by now. |
Post# 434543 , Reply# 4   11/4/2020 at 04:49 (1,240 days old) by Real1shep (Walla Walla, WA)   |   | |
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that an Electrolux salesman was not above going to a church for sales. Some churches would be long time customers.....makes business sense to me;large spaces, need a good quality vac. We hear about Hoover, Krby and Royal being used in churches. Kevin |
Post# 434545 , Reply# 5   11/4/2020 at 06:28 (1,240 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC)   |   | |
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I thought the Kirbys and Electroluxes in churches were donated by church members that bought new vacuums. |
Post# 434547 , Reply# 6   11/4/2020 at 09:01 (1,239 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)   |   | |
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Post# 434550 , Reply# 7   11/4/2020 at 09:46 (1,239 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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Post# 434554 , Reply# 9   11/4/2020 at 10:30 (1,239 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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all of the cleaners came to us. Now, they are all over the place: the parish center, church, rectory, etc.....................
When I worked there, I bought 2 new Hoover Guardsman cleansers , plus a Decade 80. I found old vacuums in the rectory attic, in closets under stairs, etc................... amazing. |