HAZEL - 1961-66 tv show pilot...featuring Kirby?

[paul]

<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I was watching the 1961 pilot episode of the Hazel tv show (see link to Youtube vid beginning at 6:50)--featuring Shirley Booth, Whitney Blake, Edward Andrews (succeeded in the regular series by Don DeFore), and Bobby Buntrock (d. age 21 in 1974; auto accident)--and discovered Hazel cleaning with what appears to be a Kirby vacuum cleaner.  </span>


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<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Kirby fans especially might want to check this out and either identify the Kirby model or the correct brand as the case may be.</span>


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<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">By the way, is there an ongoing effort to compile a list of movie/tv show vacuum cleaners?  I've seen posts before but don't know if it's been on Vacuumland or somewhere else.</span>


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<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Paul</span>

 

[electrolux137]

It's a Eureka, a Model G I believe.

 

[super-sweeper]

It's likely a Eureka model G, as stated above. However, wasn't the bag on the machine oriented on the side of the cleaner, and not the front?

 

[suckolux]

I remember that show , seems in the normal show it was a Lux.

 

[aeoliandave]

In later shows - I don't recall what year - Hazel used a Modern Hygiene.


 


Dave

 

[suckolux]

You're right Dave, I was thinking a XXX.My bad.

 

[paul]

Charles, Alex, Dave, and David,

<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Thanks for the responses.  As you can tell, I'm still learning about sweepers other than Electrolux.  By the way, I saw a Hazel episode once in which she used a mechanical sweeper.  It's likely one of the episodes on Youtube, but I don't remember which one.</span>


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<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Between what years were the Modern Hygiene vacuum cleaners manufactured--and how many models were there?  I had never heard of them before this post.</span>


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<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Paul</span>

[this post was last edited: 4/20/2013-14:46]

 

[kenkart]

I think

From the late 30s to the mid to late 50s, They were a Royal clone.

 

[paul]

Hans,

<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Thanks--I'm interested in learning more about them.</span>


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<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Paul</span>

 

[caligula]

Hi Paul.

Wait till I get back with my paperwork, you're going to have the time of your life.

Alex Taber.

 

[electrolux137]

Hazel also used a Model E on at least one show (with a Model LX rug nozzle!).

 

[paul]

Alex,

<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Re:  Reply #9 ... Thanks--lookin' forward to it!</span>


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[paul]

Charles,

<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Re: Reply #10  Thanks for the Youtube link showing Hazel's Model E w/LX rug nozzle.  I recently read somewhere that shows like Hazel are known as "comfort TV" (like comfort foods, I guess).  I don't have a regular diet of them, but they are fun to watch from time to time--especially when appliances are included.</span>


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[louvac]

Does anyone know what machine was used...

..in one of the sitcoms from the same era that involved a lighthouse keeper who was vacuuming with a "Royal-like" machine and as I could remember, then carried it up stairs? Can't remember the name of the show, but I do recall the woman using the machine as being fairly masculine, or should I say, butch? She was a regular character.

 

[djtaylor]

As I recall the early Eurekas had the exhaust horn on the left side (opposite of Kirby and Royal) and bags went across the front of the handle. I think there was a hook on the front of the fan housing so the botton far edge of the bag could be connected to hold the bag in place. I had an older, maybe 1925ish Eureka, like that.
Justin

 

[caligula]

Hi Paul, 36 hours and counting.

I leave here early Thursday morning, and will return May 5 (28 years after the club's first meeting.) While in Indiana I'll get the paperwork, and organize the storage unit so the machines are ready to be packed in a truck and driven out here by a mover in late July. Tomorrow night will be my last viset to VacuumLand till I return. I don't have access to a computer in Indiana, and no email on my cell phone. But when I get back, pictures galore!

Alex Taber.

 

[paul]

Hi, Alex,

<span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thanks for the update.  Hope everything goes well with the info. retrieval and packing!  Safe travels to you. </span>


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[super-sweeper]

You're correct, DjTaylor

A clip to the oppisite side of the exhaust port hold the bag in place, and the bag was mounted in the front...

And I think I just solved the mystery!

A Kirby Model C (With headlight), But with a "Generic" bag mounted in place of the
Kirby's original Emptor and bag.I can tell you that is a Eureka Bag on there, I own a 1929 model, but with no Brushroll.

I could be right, Or It could just be an old Eureka.&#92
I'll wait for Alex to get back with his files.

-Alex.