Childhood vac

[rainbowvacfane2]

What was your child hood vac and do u still have it ? My child hood vacs are a powr-flite pf-747 and a bissell powerforce baggless and I still have the bissell the powr-flite was tossed for a bad motor but my friend Crish had one and have it to me for FREE he even paid shipping :side note when I got it I called him and said u the best person in the world he lagged and said your welcome ) so let me know what was your I think I saw a trend on here awhile ago but let's see if your got those vacs

 

[citroenbx]

dyson dc01 1998

this IS the one from my childhood

and my mum stijl use's every day

 

[beko1987]

Vax 121 and Electrolux 154.

Have neither, although have a new in box (almost) 121 in the loft.

Saw a 154 on eBay but it exceeded my budget at the time sadly.

 

[tase]

My childhood vac is a Kirby G6...

I'd love to own it but my father won't let me take it from him... I have to find him a Sentria or Diamond Edition before he'll give it to me.

 

[nycwriter]

My childhood vac ...

This isn't my pic, but the upright on the left was the exact model as Mom's. Right down to the *milk* chocolate-colored vinyl bag, as opposed to the dark chocolate colored vinyl bag that came on some models that year (1967-68 I believe), and the dark chocolate heavy rubber bumper that went the full way around the base (as opposed to stopping halfway back on less "deluxe" models -- something I always used to regard as being intentionally and unnecessarily cheap by Hoover -- how much more expensive was another eight inches or so of rubber??).

 

[sptyks]

My parents bought a brand new Kirby DS50 from a door to door salesman in the mid sixties. I remember the Home Demo very well. Boy, I wish I still had that vacuum today.

Unfortunately both my parents passed away while I was in the ARMY stationed in Okinawa in 1975 and the DS50 was sold as part of the estate. Some lucky bloke probably bought it for pennies on the dollar form whatever my parents paid for it.

 

[suckolux]

Yep, still have our 59 Compact

 

[pr-21]

Childhood Vacuum

Here is mine.


PR-21

 

[vacuumsalesman]

My Mom's and Grandparents'

My mom's was a Purple Eureka Contour that was later replaced with a Dyson DC14 (the Contour's motor burned out and I sold the Dyson after fixing it), My Grandma Gaudiello had a Kirby G4 that she is giving me soon because she now has a Shark, and my Grandma Riley had a Runabout that she threw out because the front wheel fell right off and she wouldn't let me fix it.

 

[super-sweeper]

I grew up in a Fantom household!

Including a Fantom thunder and a Cyclone XT. Those both met their end by carpet fresh, look in the archives under my name for the full story behind that, I wrote it in some thread about what vacuums your friends/family owns, something like that?


 


I still have the Cyclone XT's replacement, though. A Eureka The Boss in blue (Hard to guess the exact cleaner, Huh)?


It just sits in the closet un-used, I have all my other machines for vacuuming! 

 

[nycwriter]

LOL ...

... I keep forgetting how old I really am, hearing about how some of us "grew up" with Fantoms!

 

[turbo500]

The first vacuum my Mum had was a Hoover Turbopower U2332, but I was only 2 when it was replaced with a Panasonic MCE-44. Then my Dad bought a Kirby Legend 2 and we had both the Kirby and Panasonic for a fair few years. Mum got rid of the Kirby years ago, but I still have the Panasonic

 

[suckolux]

My very thoughts too Matt

 

[rainbowvacfane2]

Wow

I maybe getting a fantom fury with a bad Motor anyone got one ?

 

[ultralux88]

We had the green Hoover Spirit with the PN. It was the BOL Model with a PN. I still have it in my collection.

 

[ultralux88]

I am old enough to remember a time before bagless vacuums were on the market too! It seemed miraculous at first until I got a little more experienced with them... The only bagless vacs that I use with any regularity are the Rainbow, Filter Queen, and silver king. Though I will pull out a Dyson, Eureka made Kenmore bagless or once in a great while a Fantom or even the Amway Cleartrack.

 

[krantz55]

My parents had (still have for garage use) a Dirt Devil Swivel Glide that was given to them by my grandparents. I was with my grandparents a lot so I would help them out. It was with my grandparents I vacuumed for the first time with their Amway ClearTrak which I now own. About 2 years ago I came across a brown chest in the basement and a metal wand and asked what it was. My grandmother told me a vacuum was in there. Turns out she and grandpa bought a FilterQueen 700 in 1978 and stopped using it when they got the Amway. I started to use it and loved it. The Amway did outperform it but not by much. They have also given their FilterQueen to me.

 

[jodan3399]

My mother had a couple of upright hoovers I don't remember much about, a red Kenmore she hated (gift from MIL), and later a couple of heavily abused Kirby's she found at yard sales. One screamed like a banshee until she found a parts machine and swapped the motor.

I was in my teens when my neighbor moved in and bought a silver tri star I fell in love with, never had seen anything like it, like a torpedo on wheels... it disappeared after awhile replaced by something else. Years later they called me over to get some junk out of the shed for them, old vacuum, pool pump, etc... told me to take what I wanted and put the rest out for trash.

The old vacuum was the silver tri star. It cleaned up nicely, and is still my favorite daily driver.

 

[kirbylux77]

Canadian Electrolux AP280

That was my childhood vac. My mom bought it in 1979 when I was a year old, to replace the Elux 89 she used for her home & housekeeping business. After that, she retired the 89 to housekeeping business duty only.

Rob