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Hi everyone, so about a year and a half ago I had mentioned in thread postings on both aw and Vacuumland that I was thinking about retiring from running the websites. I first launched Automaticwasher in 2001 (originally as classicappliances.com, renamed to automaticwasher.org in 2004)...

It is with great sadness for me to let everyone know that Fred Nelson passed away yesterday at the very young age of 71. Fred had lived in St. Charles, IL and about 8 years ago retired and moved to Palm Springs, CA. Fred was the original webmaster of Vacuumland when we launched in 2007 and was...

So on Friday about 4pm Central Time the web server that runs AW, Vacuumland and Automatic Ephemera stopped responding. I gave it a couple of hours to see if it was a network issue and with the sites not coming back up I called technical support and entered a support ticket. All weekend long I...

eMail just in From our Internet Service Provider: As part of our continued effort to deliver the best security and reliability to your websites, we will be migrating customers to a new datacenter starting tonight, 17 Oct 2022 at 21:00 CDT and running through 18 Oct 2022 at 07:00 CDT. During...

Well in the past year or so I've had a lot of requests on both AW and VL for users to be able to update their password without having to email me first to do it. So I've added a new feature under the Update Your Profile Menu to do this. If you wish to change your password please give this a try...

A big thank you goes out to Bill Wood who was kind enough to lend me two vacuum cleaner owner's manuals. They are scanned and live on Automatic Ephemera now if anyone would like a copy. #1 Eureka Eureka 2300 Series Upright Vacuum Cleaner Owners Guide (from about 1977). #2 Kenmore Ken-Kart...

Hi everyone, I was recently given a comprehensive parts catalog for Hoover to add to the Ephemera Library. I'm guessing this catalog is from sometime in the late 80's by the design style and font, but maybe you guys might be able to give me a more accurate date by looking at the model numbers...

If you are reading this post that means you made it onto our new server! There probably will be a few bugs or issues, so if you see something that wasn't happening earlier today or something seems broken please let me know in this post. Thanks everyone for your patience during this move!

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Hi Everyone, okay I'm ready to take Vacuumland over to it's new server. I'm about to shut down new posts as I have to copy all the recent posts onto the new server. Once I get it up and running I'll move the site. Please read my "Important Please Read" thread if you haven't already read it...

Hi everybody, so we are getting close to running out of disk space on our current server. Between the three websites we have nearly 400,000 pictures uploaded since 2004 and nearly one and a half million posts, disk space is getting very low. I estimate we have less than three months left before...

When I was a kid I was always excited when the large format Sears Sale Circulars arrived in the mail. These were usually big and colorful (12.5" x 11") and showed lots of pictures of washers, dryers, dishwashers, vacuums and other appliances. I just scanned my entire collection. About 20...

Hi everyone, this post is both an announcement and bug report. I'm about to make a major change to Vacuumland. It's taken many hours of coding and testing to be able to do this, but I "think" I got it working properly.    While I believe I got most of the bugs out when I did this to...

Good morning everyone, last night our ISP performed operating system upgrades on our web server. Unfortunately this caused some major issues with the sites. I was just now able to get it up and running, however there is still issues with posting pictures with the button below: "If the new photo...

Recently there have been a couple of eBay deals gone wrong threads on Vacuumland between members. Thankfully, the second one was not as out of control and explosive as the first one. While I’m not comfortable with having those kinds of threads I will allow them to be displayed for a period of...

Great new website specifically for the Vacuum Cleaner Collectors Club. It looks wonderful guys, job well done! Everyone please check this out... http://www.vacuumcleanercollectorsclub.org/

Continuing Dan's thread into part 9... Part 1 is here Part 2 is here Part 3 is here Part 4 is here Part 5 is here Part 6 is here Part 7 is here Part 8 is here

This is a continution of the great KIRBY AVALIR thread! Part 1 is here... http://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?27097

Continuing Dan's great thread into part 9!... Part 1 is here Part 2 is here Part 3 is here Part 4 is here Part 5 is here Part 6 is here Part 7 is here I think you have the record Dan for Vacuumland's longest thread, congratulations!

Here is a continuation of Dan's great thread into part 7, Part 6 is located here