KIRBYS X 3

[vacuser]

JUST 3 KIRBY BAGS FULL OF HOLIDAY JOY !

 

[cuffs054]

Why is one hiding it's face? Was it naughty?

 

[kirbyclassiciii]

It was installed backwards.

~Ben

 

[kirbyvacuum]

Kirby Bags

Hi Some how with those large
kirby bags i felt like i was really vacuumimg Doug

 

[vacuser]

cuffs054

IT WAS A VERY NAUGHTY KIRBY. THERE'S ALWAYS ONE IN THE BUNCH WHO HAS TO MISBEHAVE DURING THE HOLIDAYS. HOPE EVERYONE HAS A GREAT HOLIDAY.

 

[vacuser]

KIRBYVACUUM DOUG

IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO VACUUM ! THESE PLASTIC VACUUMS ARE JUST A JOKE. GET A VINTAGE KIRBY & VACUUM FOR REAL. HAVE A GREAT HOLIDAY !

 

[cb123]

What are you talking about?! Dyson vacuums are the most bestest vacuums evers....if you were in an insane asylum for the ridiculously idiotic. For the criminally silly, for the laughably incorrigible beyond all hope of mental repair! But we wise many know better. This little 5O5 beauty can eat five or six of them greasy, plastic, toxic, explosive, fire hazard, nasty vacs for breakfast and blow them all out for lunch....Just like that!!! 

 More to come latter.

 

[hoover119dude]

cb123

Very well put. I could not have said it better myself! These babies will outlast and out perform any plastic crap made today, and next week, and more than likely next year.

 

[vacuser]

cb123 & hoover119dude

thanks for the cool pics. of some glory days of vacuuming. will they ever retire ? lets hope not. love the support of vintage vacuums & how they are in our everyday life sometimes our whole life ! LOVE,LOVE,LOVE MY KIRBYS !!

 

[cb123]

When the Egyptians were constructing the pyramids. When the Druids were erecting Stonehenge's obelisks. When the Easter Islanders made ready their last monolith. They could have never envisioned the permanence of James Kirby's dream. A dream of utter perfection in the form and utility of a beautiful machine! However, a Dyson and the like were most probably contemplated by its creator, whilst he was situated on the can. I guess we can all say, he's best idea went down the drain! For it really seems, a lot of these " so called " modern plastic vacs come from the fertile cesspools of their author's minds...not even second rate...not even close!       

 

[kirbybag]

nice kirby

very nice kirby vacuums very nice bags.

 

[tolivac]

Holiday Joy-is that vacuuming the pine needles that fell off your Christmas tree---and after they get into the Kirby-esp with the direct air action partially pulverizing the needles-releasing their scent!

 

[clementrj]

to cb123

I never laughed so hard when I read your post. It was true and hysterical.

clemtrj

 

[cb123]

Thanks clemtrj, it was straight from the heart! The truth can often seem cruel, but nevertheless, it makes it no less true. Long live Kirby!

 

 

[danielsand]

I am NOT a vacuum cleaner collector. Honestly. I've been vacuuming my whole life (soon to be 60 years), and I never worked with Kirby, until recently.

Three weeks ago vintage Omega was given to me, and I was blown away/sucked in! Then I tracked down 515, and yesterday I put "WANTED" add on Craigs, despite my wife's horror. I am NOT interested in any other brands/makes! None.

There is something in these machines that transcends decades and human lives. I am interested in adding only two more to the family, Dual Sanitronic 80 (1967) in avocado green, and something else (haven't decided yet about the last one). They will all be restored to new condition (by me, NOT by the factory), and they will work daily. They'll have their bags emptied every day, wiped down, and put on "display" again.

Since the 60s, I must've used just about every vacuum cleaner available (except Kirby). There are machines out there that clean as good (or better) than Kirby. There are machines that are more "user friendly". But what I get from vintage Kirbys is a combination of performance, durability, sound, and artful design. No other machine has all that in my eyes. When you see one of these 500 series machines, all dolled up, in action, you bow down to the inventor/designer, that created something timeless like that.

And that's it. I'm hooked on Kirby.

Merry Christmas to all of you.

 

[vacuser]

TO ALL KIRBY LOVERS

I HEARD HIM EXCLAIM AS HE VACUUMED OUT OF SIGHT, MAY YOUR KIRBY CLEAN ALL YOUR CHRISTMAS MESSES TONIGHT ! HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL YOU VACUUM CLEANER FOLKS !

 

[cb123]

Daniel, your beautiful testimony spoke to me like poetry, pure poetry! Well said, well said!


 


vacuser, what can I say, but Merry Christmas to you and yours, and may your house always remain super Kirby clean...Amen!