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    My Kirby C series story!

    Andy.... I wish I still had it and did not lend it out. It was a cool machine that is for sure. I may also be saying it wrong it might have been a different model, but my great aunt had a light green version of this same machine before she bought her Hoover Junior (lime green). On the Regina...
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    Rebuilt Hoover Junior?

    This was just last Friday... When I said that I went into the store with Reggie and Jason, this is a store with new and old vacuums. His commment to us about the machine was that it was not worth buying or did not recomend that we get it. He had one sitting in the new section and the used...
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    My Kirby C series story!

    Yes I have made this mistake as well... Not with a Kirby, although I treasure my Kirbys very much. There are two stories,the first one is with a Regina quick sweep, I am not sure but it looked like a first version of Oreck, well they borrowed it and it came back with the handle nearly off the...
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    Rebuilt Hoover Junior?

    Yes it is... Reggie, Jason and I were at a store here in Denver where they had them for sale. Clay, it was at Ming's store... David
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    Queen Mary Hoover!

    What year is this? So did the Queen Mary always have Hoovers? What year was this comercial? Did Hoovers then come out with the double hooks for the long cord? David
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    Bison questions

    Hey bubbicain/John So what is the verdict? I an anxiously awaiting what you did if you got it or not. Also in Arlington do you know Davidson's Realtor? Email when you [email protected] David
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    My Hoover Feature - Bigger 'n' Better!!

    Hey Charlie. Wow that is incredible you have done an outstanding job. That is incredible. I wish I was as lucky as you to do what you have done... David
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    Bison questions

    I had this machine at one time.. This particular brown bisson, I had for a long time. I first bought it for a friend to use when he got something else I took the bisson back. Clay told me this particular model was the last model made. There were several features on bissons that are really...
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    A Hoover Tease!

    I want to appologize gentlmen... The is a great, great thing Charles Richard has done. I did not mean to throw a Kirby thing in here on this thread I was only asking him the question. Please do not get me wrong I do love all of the vacuums that were ever created as Tom G and I were having a...
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    A Hoover Tease!

    Awsome ...Charles... Do you still have your Kirby demo on the 509 or was that a later model? and your interview with those two guys? I have not looked at all your sites maybe you have them already on somewhere. David
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    Yeah!!!!! We've Hit 200!

    doggon it... And I still goofed it up, sorry.....the last Wonerful I still mispelled..
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    Yeah!!!!! We've Hit 200!

    Hehehe.... You have to pronounce it correctly..."Wonerful, Wonerful, Wondrful". Bless his little ol' "Accordian playing heart", and his baton as well. And of course Myron Floren ( if I am speeling his name correctly) For the younger folks this is all from "The Laurence Welk Show" Yes, Fred by...
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    Scott & Fetzer Home Sanitation System

    Do I read this correctly? You are putting it on ebay? Wow I bet you could have gotten it sold through the club. I know I might have put a bid on it as well. This is one that is not in my collection at the moment and I did have one but traded it many years ago. David
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    Dual Santronic VII

    Welcome Andrew... I also am a Kirby nut and Charles-Richard is a great source of information. Also the difference between the Santronic and the Dual Sanitronic is the Dual also had two speeds one for vacuuming and one for attachments. There are a couple of models of the Sanitronic. Charles...
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    What are your favorite Kirby models????

    Another question....I hope you all do not mind. Thank you Charles-Richard for clearing me up on the 560 book, you are a sweet and wonderful man. I know this may be something I have not been clear on and would appreciate some help. Our Kirby dealer here who has been selling Kirbys since 1950...
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    What are your favorite Kirby models????

    I am not sure but isnt it..... Father Bruce, I see in your 561 picture is the owners book. I am porbably wrong but wasn't that the replacement book? I have an original for it, and I might have an extra one if you would like one. Yes, of course that maybe the book you got with it, I was just...
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    Under My Xmas Tree

    I am not sure if he still has it anymore but... My first time I have ever seen a green handle air-way is in O'dowds Vacuum in Omaha, when I first visited his store in 1975-76, when he buffed out my favorite GE upright which I still have. I thought how od to have that lime green colored handle...
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    What are your favorite Kirby models????

    My favorite Kirbys... I do love all my vacuums, but yes I do love my Kirbys especially. My altime favorites would have to be The Dual 80 (because of mom had hers brand new as well as 3 other farming neighbors all had one Dual 80's). My Grandmother having at the same time a Dual 50, yes I have...
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    POD 1.02.07

    sorry Charles Richard...... Sorry my friend I was writing mine the same time you were. I just added a whole new pod. Sorry my friend.... David
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    P.O.D. on Eleanor Powell

    Film stardom She was well-received in her first starring role in 1935's Broadway Melody of 1936 (in which she was supported by Jack Benny and Frances Langford), and delighted 1930s audiences with her endless energy and enthusiasm, not to mention her stunning dancing. According to dancer Ann...
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