GE motors in Kirby D50?

[dysonman1]

I pick up the VCCC story in '95.

The VCCC from '95 through 2007 was a very different club. RJ Vanik presented by-laws to the assembled club, they were voted on, and installed (they were discarded by the 'new' regime). There was no board of directors - we had a President, Vice President, and Treasurer. That's it. We had to file some legal papers about the club as well. We had printed, color newsletters, four a year. That's what the $25 membership fee bought. The conventions were very different from today, with many of the members from that time long gone from today's VCCC. Hans Craig is an excellent reference for what the club 'used' to be like, and the people who made it great. Today's VCCC is NOTHING like the old one.

 

[caligula]

That's GARBAGE Tom and you know it!

There was only one VCCC. Yes, R. J. was part of that phase, but it was still the SAME club.

DEAL with it!

 

[caligula]

From the founder of the VCCC.

While the club went through many phases the basic structure is the same. I retired in May of 95 after running the club for 12 years to have a new life in San Diego, California, and the club understandably went through a series of changes. As with all clubs it's been reconstructed, old ideas replaced, new management runs things and so on, but it was still the club John Lucia and I formed. There was never any dismantling of the club. Tom did not take it out of my name and put it in his. John Lucia and I are the ONLY names connected with the creation of The Vacuum Cleaner Collector's Club.

Robert Alexander Taber.

 

[caligula]

I stated as it was and is and that is the last I want to say on that subject. Anybody who wants to can contact me personally and read the newsletters and information of the founding of the ONE and ONLY Vacuum Cleaner Collector's Club.

 

[dysonman1]

It's a MUCH different club today. Not at all the same as it was. Just because someone 'founded' a club does not a club make. The VCCC is in no one's "name", that's ridiculous. I was at Bob Taber's house for his 'meeting' in the mid 1990's in his garage. There were 12 of us. The friendships I formed then have remained to this day. There was NO banquet, no 'cocktail hour', no convention 'fee', no pretentiousness.

 

[kirbysthebest]

Sour grapes, anyone? Anyone,Bueller?

 

[kenkart]

Since my name was mentioned...

I will put in my two cents worth,It IS the same club,in theory, but unless its changed in the years I have been out of it ,its not like it was in the early years, I joined in 94, our meetings were FUN, we all got along and there were NO cliques,if it was like it was in the 90s and early 2000s, I would still be a member and still look forward to the conventions....I am too old and hot tempered to get a ulcer over silliness, Tom Gasko, Clay Floyd, Alex, John Lucia, Charles Lester, Mike Hays, Billy Lipman, Tania, John Young,Roger Proehl, Mike Rogers and several more were friends I made in the early years and still are friends today, You would have to experience one of our old meetings to understand what made them so special,We had no internet then, so the phone was it until we met once a year, we laughed and cut up all weekend and we actually learned about vacuum cleaners,it was affordable, fun and definitely not a contest to see how expensive a hotel or restaurant we could stay at or eat in...Hans Craig

 

[kenkart]

So I guess

What I'm really trying to say is, Comparing what it is today with what it was is like comparing a General Motors Frigidaire Washer with a WCI built Frigidaire...technically the same but a whole different animal in actuality.