Recent content by easyace

How did Maytag end up taking the new Connie over from Hoover, anyway?

My go-to . . . (not my actual machine, but I don't have my own pics of it yet)

When I was about five, walking through a department store with my parents, I inadvertently bumped against the handle of an upright, I forget now what kind---and the sonofabitch kicked on and the bag blew up right against me. I had no idea the thing was plugged in for demonstration. I couldn't go...

. . . when somebody would make a 21st century vacuum cleaner whose design is practically a cop of the memorable General Electric Roll-Easy of the mid-1950s; namely, the Vax Air Revolve . . . What's next? Somebody going to bring out something derived from the Hoover Constellation? ;)...

My parents' first vacuum cleaner was a first-year General Electric swivel top they got as a wedding present, I think. They unloaded it in 1962 in favour of an Electrolux Model F. (Thank GOD they did, that GE turned into a pain in the ass---something happened to it and when you used the...