Aeolian Dave's Roaming Report

[aeoliandave]

Arrived at my bud Carl's farm outside Butler PA Tuesday afternoon after a 6 hour sunny drive along the backroad 2-lanes from Stratford Ontario via Buffalo NY.

Ebay wins have been accumulating in the summer kitchen since June. In this pic, sharing space with the ATVs and snomobiles are Carl's extensive Xmas Decorations & property lighting getting ready to go up and half the vacuum boxes have been moved into the house for unwrapping and the reveal...

 

[aeoliandave]

As I open up each parcel I must say I am very impressed this time around with the care every one of these sellers has taken packing boxes to absolutely prevent any damage whatsoever. I'll be emailing them personally as well as leaving A+++ feedbacks.

Two Hoovers and a genuine Turquoise Roll-Easy caddy. Intact!

 

[aeoliandave]

Cylinder lineup in the Hallway. Every one has the hose and most tools & wands & original cords. Surprising thing is, all the original cloth hoses are supple and airtight with a satistying palm thump. What kind of lucky is that?!

Filtex, Lux AE, all chrome GE, complete GE Tools Case, the GE that came with the tools, but I'll be pairing them with the Chrome Bomb.

 

[aeoliandave]

Whole bunch of Compact stuff in the bathroom, and Red Kirby tool case. The Monitor is an astounding find story in itself I'll tell later - it is my SECOND Monitor.

Airway with fibre handle tucked in by the vanity is a parts beater machine in very dire shape. I needed the motor and the Dial celuloid for my Green Goddess. Nice legible bag, too.

 

[aeoliandave]

Everything has to come out of the cartons so the loading puzzle for the car can be worked out. Here's an early test fit pic.

Yes, it all fit snug & compact with the low boxes and hoses coiled on top, under the cargo cover all behind the back seat.

Room in the back seat for the Hoover Floor Washer I'll pick up from Tom on Thursday night...after thrifting all over Alliance, Canton & North Canton followed by The Hoover Historical Center visit.

Observant folks will now know my Ebay identity.

More postings from the road at the next Motel Super8 with wireless high speed Thursday night...if not later tonight. Man, this is fun.

 

[arh1953]

What a haul! I'm jealous over the GEs! And the Hoovers!

 

[petek]

Looking good so far. Cleaning up America of all that detrious and debris.. LOL

 

[aeoliandave]

There's a surprising low dollar value on the stuff in the trunk. Ferinstance, no one but me bid on the chrome GE and I took a real gamble it wasn't rusted out or mangled on the other side. Then the sorta boring-by-comparison mud brown GE was listed a day later...well, I just had to try for those gleaming glass & polished aluminum tools; the toolbox has all its parts and a manual. It all balances out in the end. Two sucking GE cloth weave hoses and enough tools to share between 'em. Similar gambling - the Filtex has all its papers and looks like it hasn't been used a day in its life. When the Compact Magic Disk came up everyone else was frantic for the separately listed Polishaire so again no one noticed me sneaking in under the tent flap. The Constellation is in rough shape but it is the first one, the non-floater. The AE, just because I didn't have one and the color matching E was lonely, it went cheap and it is rusted along the right side name band but what the heck, eh?

Bonus pic. Spotted my name on an abandoned building outside Titusville PA. Had to turn back around and capture it.

 

[arh1953]

Love that building Dave, are you compelled to buy it? (You really want to, you know) Pennsylvania is chock loaded with really neat old buildings. I miss living up north.

 

[aeoliandave]

Alan,If I was younger and wealthier such a building could certainly be transformed into a wonderful music room - imagine the pipe organ I could put in there with 5 floors of open space. Like Wannamaker's Philladelphia Grand Court Organ, only half the size. LOL

But, if I had that kind of time & money I'd be re-creating one of Frank Lloyd Wright's 1900 prairie houses with vast entertainment spaces.

Off for a hearty Bob Evans breakfast and on to Canton Adventures...

 

[parunner58]

Dave,

Allen is right, PA does have a lot of old buildings for sale. A few years ago there was an old church for sale here in Easton for $150,000 and that included a pipe organ. I don't recall what ir went for but i know they did not tear it down for a parking lot like so many nice places have become.

Mike

 

[chestermikeuk]

Haulage Time

Hi Dave, nothing like a road trip & picking up the goodies as well, nice selection so far, looking forward to seeing more pics, love the all chrome GE, Enjoy the breakfast, Mike

 

[arh1953]

Dave, if I had the money either......but both of your ideas are terrific, I would vote for the Frank Lloyd Wright idea. You could recreate about three different periods in there. Mike, I bet Easton still has bunches of great buildings. I have a 1963 copy of the Melange, the college yearbook, that has a picture of the inside of the Magnavox dealer. Might you know where it was?

 

[aeoliandave]

Midnight report from Toledo working backwards...

Got in from North Canton 30 minutes ago. Left Tom's at 9:30. Tom, Heather and their 3 year old boy , and the 'puppy', are the nicest folks you'd want to meet. Honest, all I intended to do was have a good visit and pack the nifty yellow floor washer in the back seat. Perhaps a bit overwhelmed by Tom's splendid Hoover Basement I put up little resistance as he generously plucked out parts, hoses and vacuums from the Spare Parts bins in response to any needs that came to my mind. I mean, after digging stuff out it would be a shame to have to wedge it all back in, eh Tom? Thanks my friend, for your kind hospitality on short notice on a 'school night'.

In addition to the Floor washer he produced a second yellow one that is only missing the nozzle. Taking pity on the Blue non floater Constellation he found blue tools and a stretchy hose with the correct wand end. A few more Connie hoses, another second swiveltop Connie with the powerhose guts removed, the standard toolset in box for my convertible, a big plump bag for the 913, a gray Lewyt tub canister in need off everything attachable...oh, and a taupe & orange ( I think) DAM with the tools. Excuse me for not being specific about model numbers but I'm feeling rather burnt out tonight, happy to be off the road and within 5 hours of home. I think I will head up to Port Huron & Sarnia to enter Canada, pop in briefly on Pete, then through London to pick up the Kirby G3 and ideally home before sunset.

Consulting Akron & Canton streetmaps Wednesdsay night I realized I was close to the Goodyear Dirigable Hanger and a short drive from the wonderful Sieberling Estate (founder GoodYear Rubber), Stan Hewyt. Spent the morning touring the estate then arrived at the Hoover Historical Center at 2:30. Was there until 4PM getting the Special Tour then over to Tom's for pizza & vacuums til it was indeed time to bid adieu to North Canton until next time.
No pix up yet, will have to wait til I get home. Well, maybe a couple quikie uploads in the morning before another hearty trucker's breakfast...

 

[petek]

Sounds great, as you can see I'm up late, had a nap earlier so when you get here you may have to knock hard on the door, the doorbell doesn't always work, just don't give up and leave LOL

 

[petek]

Bump
Just keeping this space ready for Daves presentation of finds. He stopped in at my place early this afternoon on his way home from Ohio with another 90 miles to go so he should have been home ages ago. His Subaru was chock a block full o vacs from PA and Toms in N.Canton but managed to squeeze some more stuff in before he left here on his merry way down the hiway.

 

[aeoliandave]

Back home from Toledo to Stratford at 5:02PM, with stop at Pete's and a detour to London for the G3, just in advance of a fierce snowstorm coming on. Crossed the St Clair River on an Auto Ferry. $6. for a 15 minute cruise coast to coast. LOL . Actually its a great and fun alternative to crossing at Detroit or Port Huron with the long long slow lines of trucks and cars. Seriously, I drove on the ferry, we left and arrived and customs was one nice guy in a heated cabin waving us though.
As you can imagine this is a daunting number of vacuumage to un-wedge from the Subaru wagon while the winds are flinging the doors open & closed and the snow is flying and the sun is setting.

In to the kitchen they were 'heaved' two at a time:

 

[aeoliandave]

Hector needs a snack before getting back to sniffing out the new machines.

 

[aeoliandave]

I toldja I was leaving the Congoleum dirty just so I could scrub wash, wax and polish it.

This pic shows just how gleaming the chrome GE is and lovely shade of Apple Green crinkle on the Compact.