Electrolux XXX/LX Polisher Ephemera

[charles~richard]

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[petek]

Charles, that story is great and I'm still laughing at those pictures, priceless.

But yes I know what you mean about "knowing" something good is going to be in the thrift store / flea market etc as soon as you walk in or even drive by. I do the rounds most every day, not everyday and then not every thrift store on a single day and just like you said I can "smell out" not just a vacuum but a blender anywhere. I always had this insane attraction to blenders, mixers, canopeners why who knows, probably all the buttons and noise and switches and fun stuff.
Now nearly everytime I go in these place I sort of follow the same walking pattern for each particular store but it's on those days that I walk in the front door and get this instantaneous hit in my head to reverse my route thru the store that I nearly always find something really great. If I try and fake it by doing the "reverse route" thing it doesn't work, I've tried that a few times.

That golden Eureka Vanguard I have was like that.. I was bemoaning on the washer site a year or so back I could never find a Eureka and especially a fancier one with the cord reel and fancy bag. It was like something drew me one day to the Mennonite Thrift Store and as I was walking thru the clothing area to the back where they had furniture and electricals I just had this feeling that there would be something good there and there it was, the Eureka Vanguard with cord reel.

 

[hygiene903]

Wow, Interesting Polisher Thread!

I have two of them myself, both in original boxes, one for my model XXX, and one for my G. The one for the G has the dispenser on it and is called a Rug Scrubber/Floor Polisher. It was after the Turbo-Tool and think it may have been the last incarnation of the Electrolux air-powered floor polisher, correct me if I'm wrong here.
Jeff

 

[charles~richard]

Heh heh Petek, glad to know "I AM NOT ALONE.



Am going to try attaching an audio file here, of an Electrolux polisher. Don't know if it will work or not....... Let's see...

See link.............


http://www.137.com/waxer.wav

 

[charles~richard]

Then, what about an animated file of the rotating star-shaped brush.

(Always wondered about that brush btw, speaking of strange stuff ... many mystical connections between a five-pointed star inside a circle --- in some ancient religions/philosophies and secret societies, a five-pointed star was the metaphysical, secret symbol for MAN.

So what the heck's it doing on the bottom of an Electrolux Polisher ... that looks like a space ship???! Some kind of subliminal, secret message here meant only for those initiated into the Ancient and Mystical Order of the Electrolux or sumpin??? .......

Time for that darned theremin again!!!!!!! hahaha)

 

[charles~richard]

Here's some HEAVY READING for ya........



http://www.ecauldron.com/pentagram.php

 

[petek]

Well when it comes to strange happenings in my life I could write a book, well a pamphlet anyways. I've always been a strong believer in syncronicity of events and although difficult and near impossible I try to keep "in touch" with my surroundings as best I can. I'll give you one example seeing as I mentioned syncronicity.
When I was around 15 I used to babysit for the neighbors two kids. They were quite into existentialism, Jungian pyschology, the full gamut, all of which I knew nothing about but the mother Elsie would often tell me all about it when I would sit with them for awhile after they came home. It was Elsie who first explained to me what synchronicity of events was and meant. With that new found knowledge I headed off down the block home, it was about 2 a.m. Mom and dad where in bed and I went into the kitchen to get something to eat. While I was in there I heard something klunk in the diningroom where we also had a full wall of bookshelves, full of books. My mom was a teacher and both my parents were avid readers. Anyways, I went into the diningroom to see what the noise was I had heard, switched on the light and there was a book laying open on the floor. It was one of my mothers psychology books open to a page referring to synchronicity.
I kid you not, I'm not making it up.

 

[charles~richard]

HI JEFF

You are quite right. The larger, plastic-housing "Turbo Rug Washer and Floor Scrubber" that came out with the G late in 1960 (early G still had the Turbo-tool), was sold right up through at least the Diamond Jubilee and maybe later, but that's the latest version I've ever seen.

If the darn things weren't so big (the size of a dinner plate), I'd love to have one of each color!

G - white and turquoise
G - white and tan
1205 - two-tone turquoise
Golden J & Super J - white and gold-yellow
Olympia - brown & white
Silverado - two-tone gray
Diamond J - white and dark blue

 

[petek]

Darn, my sound card doesn't work.. can't hear the linky

 

[charles~richard]

And one more "DEEP" link.......

I wonder if it's any coincidence that Electrolux founder Alex Wenner-Gren was most likely a Mason and that many Electrolux logos do have Masonic influences. I could write a whole dissertation on that topic.

While I have never found any proof of it, it IS very likely that not only was Wenner-Gren a Mason but indeed all of the early "movers and shakers" at Electrolux including Lurelle Guild. (His stuff just has "Mason" all over it.)

Most businessmen in those days were Masons. It was a very important social network as much as anything else, then the ones who really got into it and went into the higher degrees, well, it became a whole different thing. In many small towns, all the leading businessmen, bankers, ministers, pharmacists, judges, lawyers etc. were Masons and if you were not a member for whatever reason, it could be difficult to "fit in" and move up the ranks of commerce and industry.

How on earth did I ever get off on this tangent?! Oh well, now y'all know what occupies my mind sometimes, and why I may seem like I am a million miles away somewhere ... I probably AM!!



http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/pentagram.html

 

[aeoliandave]

Boy o boy! I go in to work for a few hours and this thread explodes. I echo Pete and Charles as a firm believer in the personal 'logicly unexplainable events but I was there and saw it for myself' episodes. I just know there's a pony under that pile. Its a pure pleasure to be among such company of avid seekers.

My twingle is associated with anything to do with pipe organ pieces, late 1800s Quack boxes and medical devices and of course, anything mechanicly/electrically intriqueing. Perhaps some of my re-routed brain circuitry responds to the faint residual halflife neutronical emanations - yeah, I made that word up.

I credit the twingle to all those electric sockets I thrillingly stuck metal objects into to complete the circuit from tothood to adolescence. I 'learned' about the resistance...and flamability...of various materials in this way.

And there's that 'since I'm the only one who's thin and short with blue eyes in this family I must be a foundling' thing. This is absolutely not true, of course, and I was showered with buckets of love & encouragement by Mom & Dad but early on I set out on a differnt path than the family saw coming...

I tell few about my interests because once started I reach a fever pitch of enthusiasm for the subject and most listeners glaze over and politely excuse themselves. Its enough to just take something unfixable and return it to them fixed. But get two kindred folks together and they have no need of social indulgence from 'standersby'.

Trained as a mechanical engineer, its more the decades of taking things apart and putting them back together that keeps an open mind to stuff that ain't in textbooks.

The family story is how Davy got a tinplate flying helicopter attached to a hand crank by a long spiral cable for his 5th Christmas. Just would not play with anything else all day. When it stopped working I took it apart after dinner in my room useing things from Mom's sewing kit and fixed it.

Then there was my dear cat Austin ( who looked like no other cat in the neighborhood) who crossed the road in front of my car on my way home and paused on the curb. 1 minute later I pulled into the driveway up half a block to be told by the neighbors that he had been struck & killed by a car 3 hours earlier. That was 15 years ago and since then all my kittens to cats have been indoor or outdoor on the screened porch only.

and so it goes...

Thank you for sharing the stories and links. Dang, how did I miss that white & gold polisher?

Dave

 

[petek]

Charles, cue the thermanin music please, we gots us another one.

 

[petek]

Now isn't that a coinkydink right there...when I was about 5 or 6 I also got a toy helicopter from the Metropolitan or Kresge store downtown. It was a tinplate type control tower and there was a counterbalanced pole on top. On one end of the pole was the model helicopter and on the other the counterweight. It had a "remote" control on a wire with a joystick you moved back and forth/left right to make the blades spin and control the helicopter making it spin around on the pole and go up and down, very cool. Even odder, the toy was called PK Pete,, my name, my full initials. I evnetually broke it but never could get it working properly again.

 

[arh1953]

Wow, Dave, that story about your cat. There are many many other accounts of animal communication from beyond. Oh, and the polishers-what a sight! I hope I can locate something like that on this end.

 

[ian88]

Beyond eh? shortly after my cat Jack died (male twin to Jill respectively ;p) my mum swears she felt a cat nuzzling her face and heard purring whilst she was in bed, but opened her eyes and nothing was there..this was like really early in the morning or something.

Ian

 

[arh1953]

I believe it. I've always been open to that sort of thing. I wish some of my dear departed would stop in and say hello.

 

[charles~richard]

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