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My mom has two uprights with retractable cords, a Kenmore Quick Clean bagless and Hoover Whole House Rewind bagless. I thought both were decent. I guess being used to canisters with a retractable cord, she wanted an upright with that feature too. Being used to canisters myself, I did like it too.

Not a bad price at all, I don’t think, if it is complete. I wouldn’t be able to use it though! Neat seeing the original packages of bags from the era as well.

I remember the All Arounds, seems like they came out around the late 1990s? I remember seeing them sold at Walmart. They are cute and I do like these little wet/dry vacs. I don’t recall if Shop Vac encodes a date in the serial number, but you might check it for a possible date.

Cleva along with the canisters, got the designs for the uprights from Panasonic as well. However Cleva do not own the full rights to the Kenmore brand specifically, but I believe have some sort of licensing agreement to use it. They even did infomercials for the Intuition upright a few years...

My guess is the floor care line may be sold off at some point, given how many retailers that it’s sold through, it seems to still be a somewhat popular line. Or possibly the Kenmore brand will be sold, seeing how Lowes has sold some Kenmore appliances as well as has Amazon. And the DieHard...

I’ve noticed some Kenmore canisters being slightly redesigned slightly and they’ve regained headlights on the power nozzle. This is a welcome change, because I didn’t like when the power nozzles lost headlights when Cleva designed canisters first came out, and only the Elite models still had...

To be honest I found most 1990s era direct air vacs like Hoover and Eureka to be unpleasantly loud! Even though they are nice vacuums. And yes those Eureka Superlites, while they are cute, are very noisy! Modern Bissells, to my ears aren’t actually too bad, especially considering how cheap...

Unfortunately, unlike other members here who have gotten good progress in vacuum sobriety, I’ve fallen off the wagon today, double so! Earlier this week on my lunch break, I stopped by Salvation Army and saw some vacs. One was a Shop Vac Mighty Mini canister vac of the 1980s with its box and...

Probably. I’d like to find one of those Concept Twos someday. I see the Concept Ones occasionally, but not the Two. I guess maybe being more expensive, they didn’t sell as many here.

Interesting, I checked, and mine does have it on both sides. I wonder if that means an earlier or later production date.

Funny you posted this, as I just got one last weekend! It’s even the same color and also too is “pre date code in the serial number!” I’ve been trying to stay away from more vacs, and started not to buy it. But, it even had the dusting brush and crevice tool, as well as the manual with it, so...

That’s kind of why I was hesitant on getting it. I already have the top model from the 70s that also didn’t have a Powermate, but I had been looking for one for years, so bought it anyway. Someone on Facebook said they had a Powermate for that one but I never got around to asking. Yes, I really...

I saw this vacuum at Habitat today. Looks to be maybe a lower line or mid line model. It doesn’t have the two speed switch, performance indicator, woodgrain top or tool caddy like the one I have. But I don’t think it’s quite bottom of line. Anyway I didn’t get it (yet) but I was debating on it...

That’s a nice little machine! I like how the attachments store at the back and the fact that it has a cord reel. Not a lot of small American canisters seemed to have a retracting cord. The colors are nice, too.

I went to Winn Dixie on Friday evening, and I noticed a Bissell PowerForce Compact bagless upright was being used to vacuum the rugs in produce and carpeting at the front of the store. The rest of the store has vinyl tiles with wood looking floors in produce and the liquor area, so I guess it’s...