Charles A. McKee - Electrolux - Have any good stories?

[hibbotte]

Hiya-I'm new to the site, but would love to network with any Electrolux/Charlie A. McKee fans. We're in the beginning stages of a project about the life of Charlie A. Mckee and would love if you stopped by our Facebook page and the www.charlieamckee.com site and said hello.

Thanks and looking forward to meeting some of you in the near future.

https://www.facebook.com/CharlieTheTigerMcKee
http://charlesamckee.com


Jason Hibberd

http://https//www.facebook.com/CharlieTheTigerMcKee

 

[hibbotte]

Charles A. McKee - Electrolux - Have any good stories?

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Hiya-I'm new to the site, but would love to network with any Electrolux/Charlie A. McKee fans. We're in the beginning stages of a project about the life of Charlie A. McKee and would love if you stopped by our Facebook page and the www.charlesamckee.com site and say hello.

Thanks and looking forward to meeting some of you in the near future.

www.facebook.com/CharlieT...
charlesamckee.com...


Jason Hibberd

CLICK HERE TO GO TO hibbotte's LINK

 

[caligula]

Hi hibbotte

I hope you are not limiting this to Facebook only, as it will leave me out. Fact is I'm not on Facebook and doubt if I ever will be. That said, I'm very interested in participating, as I was once the youngest employee of Electrolux. The year was 1968, and I was only 17, but I had a strong love of vacuum cleaners, and that began with the model LX of 1952, when I was only 2 years old!


 


So hopefully, I can follow this thread and learn about one of the key men behind Electrolux.


 


Robert Alexander Taber.


Founder of


The Vacuum Cleaner Collector's Club.

 

[vacman1961]

WOW, this old commercials bring back memories, I met Charlie McKee at an Electrolux dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in 1978 when the Super J was out.

 

[caligula]

Hi Jason Hibberd.

I have one huge question. Do you plan to do a genealogy on Charles McKee? and here's a related question. Do you plan to include the people he worked with at Electrolux?  The overall history of this company fascinates me, and I've been researching it for over 30 years. Charlie rubbed shoulders with many key people at the factory in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, and it would be interesting to learn the fact from the fiction.


 


 Thank you in advance,


Robert Alexander (Alex) Taber.


 


 

 

[hibbotte]

Alex-If it's okay, I'm going to pm you directly.

Thanks,

Jason Hibbberd
[email protected]
www.hibbotte.com

 

[caligula]

Hi hibbotte

Certainly!


 


I'm glad to help in any way I can, but please understand that my memories are that of a 17 year old boy, who lived in Wallingford, Connecticut, and was selling the model 1205 in 1968 out of the Hamden, Connecticut branch office on Dixwell Ave.. All information following that is by the 63 year old collector, and historian that I am now.


 


I can be found at [email protected],


Alex Taber

 

[mckee-o-vac]

older then dirt

hi , i would like a swedish lux - 1 model vac. anyone have one lying around they want to unload ? thanks t

 

[mckee-o-vac]

old news update

howdy all , the vintage electrolux commercials produced including my father were from my private collection that "others" decided to present on this site without my permission . that aside , i hope you enjoyed them . i have other video/film related i may share at some point.
i have a couple of model 5's i want to part with . one 240 v and another domestic 110 v . neither have attachments or optional skids . decent shape with some leatherette scraps etc. so what else is new in vintage vacuumland ?