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The "Dual Vacuum Cleaner" home sanitation system was a bit of a "thing" in the late 1940s. General Electric and Premier offered their "All Purpose Combination" for only $99.85. The upright was a really fine machine, as well built as any Kirby of the period, and the canister machine was...

Well, when I was a youngster I tended to accumulate all sorts of mechanical stuff. Talking Machines, radios, home appliances, lawn mowers. Mom and Dad urged me to choose limits, so I limited the appliances and other detritus that I kept to items made before 1925. In the late 1960s this wasn't...

My paternal grandmother used her Eureka Model 9 straight suction machine and her walnut Bissell "Grand Rapids" sweeper until her passing at the age of 97 in 1969. My maternal grandmother, who was much used a 1946 General Electric DeLuxe and a Bissell "Sweepmaster" of 1937 vintage . Mom had a...