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    Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! https://www.ebay.com/itm/295176762993?mkevt=1&mkpid=0&emsid=e11021.m43.l1120&mkcid=7&ch=osgood&euid=9824e846f98540be8dcd0dbb6a2f8cbe&bu=43185249230&ut=RU&exe=102357&ext=240833&osub=-1%7E1&crd=20220823043314&segname=11021

    Of course ... Westinghouse tank on I Love Lucy!    On a later episode she's using a Hoover 2 upright (don't remember the model) with a lot of business of using the attachments. Product Placement much?!

    Turquoise Electrolux G on Bob Newhart Show.

    Electrolux Models XXX and E on Hazel. Here's a photo of those and a glimpse of the Modern Hygiene.

    Hoover 28 on Here's Lucy  

    Electrolux Model XII on The Three Stooges. They were working in a car repair shop.    

    I had accumulated a list of TV "vacuum cleaner sightings" but I can't find it. Off the top of my head--   Premier tank on Dennis the Menace. It was Mrs. Wilson's. Mr. Wilson was using it to look for a rare postage stamp.   G.E. Roll-Easy on Dennis the Menace. Dennis took the...

    There's a Bug Eye on eBay right now...

Well, I'm not questioning the integrity of the seller nor the economic status of any buyers. I was just shocked at how high this auction went.

Sorry, I posted this to the wrong department. That's what I get for trying to do the Internet on my phone! 🤯💥🤪

I do believe this is the most I've ever seen an old vacuum cleaner go for. https://www.ebay.com/itm/165616480328?hash=item268f82f048:g:H6QAAOSw24hi8DvD

    Here's one of Stan Kann's appearances on the Tonight Show, maybe the funniest of them all!

    Bill C. Kinder: Thank you for your kind remarks about my interview with Stan Kann. When transcribing the tapes I made with him, I'd sometimes get to laughing so hard that I could barely type. He was indeed a "National Treasure" and one of the most interesting, sincere, kind people I have...

"A Visit With Stan Kann" See link... http://1377731.com/stan

  Tom keeps trying to pull this thread back on-topic, and it keeps getting pulled back out into left field.  

"Kirby Amalgam"

    When starry-eyed collectors ooooh and ahhhh over an old vacuum cleaner, this is what usually happens. Sellers start seeing dollar signs flashing like crazy.

    I assume this is the purple model although it appears to be dark gray. Obviously that's a replacement hose. Any way you look at it, the seller has stars in his/her eyes. https://www.ebay.com/itm/165616264533

Dave Olsen So sorry to hear this. Is he currently in Oregon or California?

Stan Kann the Gadget Man I met Stan when he was living in Hollywood. I got to know him through a mutual friend who came over to my place one day and declared, "I don't believe it! Another nut with a house-full of old vacuum cleaners!" Wait, what--? ANOTHER friend with old vacuum cleaners...