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Thread Number: 44109
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Eureka Princess Canister TV Commercial |
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| Post# 459363 1/12/2023 at 06:59 (470 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
Never saw this ad before! It’s from 1969…thank you to “Vacuum Archive” YouTube channel for uploading this!
Loved the light humour in the Eureka commercials from this era! I also remember a similar one featuring an avocado green Super Power stick vac and an “I Dream of Jeannie” actress cleaning the desert sand off the rugs in her tent…😀 CLICK HERE TO GO TO eurekaprince's LINK | ||
| Post# 459375 , Reply# 1 1/12/2023 at 13:27 (469 days old) by Paul (USA) | ||
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That is a fun and creative commercial, Brian! What were the differences between the Prince and Princess, and what was the production span of each? | ||
| Post# 459380 , Reply# 2 1/12/2023 at 13:57 (469 days old) by Paul (USA) | ||
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1969 ad I found a November 1969 newspaper ad for the model 705 Princess!
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| Post# 459394 , Reply# 3 1/12/2023 at 18:08 (469 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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Paul,
When Eureka introduced the little compact Princess canister vacuums in the early 1960's, it was shaped kind of like a turtle...with a wider front and kind of a narrower rear end...with a front-to-back handle on top. A year or two later, they introduced a bigger, boxier canister that was kind of like a more deluxe Princess. The boxier version was called the Prince - I think it had a more powerful motor and maybe even a suction control panel on top. For whatever reason, this model name "Prince" only lasted a few years and Eureka began to just call all their compact square canisters by the name Princess. Well into the late 1970's, you could buy both a turtle-shaped Princess or a box-shaped Princess canister cleaner. | ||
| Post# 461640 , Reply# 6 3/22/2023 at 19:22 (400 days old) by Canisterman (Mocksville NC) | ||
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These Would have been great except for the bag collar that always leaked dust. | ||
| Post# 461641 , Reply# 7 3/22/2023 at 19:26 (400 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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| Post# 461642 , Reply# 8 3/22/2023 at 19:37 (400 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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And for a little comic relief, here is an episode of the “Love American Style” comedy series featuring a salesman selling a Eureka Princess vacuum! The vignette is called “Love and the Guilty Conscience” starring comedienne Jo-Anne Worley. It aired in fall 1971, and the door to door salesman is from a company called “Dynaclean”!
See link below…enjoy! CLICK HERE TO GO TO eurekaprince's LINK | ||
| Post# 461696 , Reply# 11 3/24/2023 at 13:46 (399 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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The ability to sit on its back for stair cleaning and storage is an interesting feature. The 1959 tear-drop Mobile-Aire was already able to do that. But we can see that the new Princess I and II still did not have that feature by 1963. As we can see, the subsequent versions of the Princess post-1963 all tried to incorporate some stability legs on the back of the canister so that it can be securely stood “on end” like the Mobile-Aire.
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| Post# 461885 , Reply# 14 3/30/2023 at 13:56 (392 days old) by Paul (USA) | ||
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Nice score, Jimmy! | ||
| Post# 461891 , Reply# 15 3/30/2023 at 16:33 (392 days old) by Rugsucker (Elizabethton TN) | ||
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Model 500 | ||
| Post# 461899 , Reply# 16 3/30/2023 at 21:20 (392 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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Thank you for posting this beautiful find, Jimmy!!! Congrats!
Some first impressions: 1. A vinyl hose? Amazing. Most turtle-shaped Princesses from the early 1960’s were advertised with a braided hose. Which makes dating this very confusing. If it had the famous Eureka Williams 1970’s graphic on the handle, I could date this to 1970 or even 1969. Since it has the corporate font used in the early 1960’s, this is either an intentional “retro” touch on a 1970’s Princess, or it’s from the proper era: early 1960’s. Very difficult to feel confident of an exact date of manufacture. The classic Lagoon Blue colour is also from the early 1960’s…even though EW offered models in this colour well into the early 1970’s. 2. Discoloured cord: it’s amazing how so many of Eureka’s white electric cords from the 1960’s and 1970’s have discoloured to a strange yellowish/pinkish hue. My 1983 DialaNap upright had a white cord that never got discoloured. 3. Never could figure out the logic in selling selling a canister without a proper hose handle. Using this cleaner for carpet cleaning must have been extremely uncomfortable. And yet Eureka Williams kept offering these budget cleaners without handles in every line-up for years. | ||
| Post# 461920 , Reply# 19 3/31/2023 at 17:09 (391 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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Thanks Paul, once again! Your post showing Jimmy's Princess advertised in 1975 has given me the definite year of its manufacture: 1975. The brandname label is a retro touch using the font style from the early 1960's.
Looking at the pics of Jimmy's blue Princess, I noticed another indicator suggesting a 1970's date for the cleaner: the lack of slots on the necks of all three steel wands. In the 1950's and 1960's, Eureka's steel wands all had slotted perforations around the neck to help the user know when the wands were inserted sufficiently to give a secure connection. In the 1970's at some point, these slots disappeared and the wands had no perforations at all. | ||
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