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When I was a kid, there was an abandoned house next door. One day I peeked in the wash house and there was an old TV and a vacuum in there. When the house sold they let me have the vacuum. It was a GE swivel top, and it seems like it was beige. There was no hose or any attachments. It had a paper bag inside that was open on top and then a cloth basket like filter under it. It had a slide switch on the side.
That's about all I can remember about it. It was rusted through on the side but I mustered the courage to plug it in on the back porch and it did run well. I cannot recall if it had a blower port or where the exhaust was. I know it did not have any attachment storage. My parents made me throw it out since it was basically junk being it rusted out.
My guess is it was a very basic model from the 60s or 70s?
My grandmother told me once that her first vacuum was a GE swiveltop she got with S&H green stamps from the grocery store. When I was a kid the vacuum was long gone but she still had the attachments to it in her shed. In fact she may still have them. Once I showed her the GE I was given, and she said it looked just like the one she had.
One day I'd like to find one of those simply GE or Premier swiveltops. I never see any old GE vacuums here.
That's about all I can remember about it. It was rusted through on the side but I mustered the courage to plug it in on the back porch and it did run well. I cannot recall if it had a blower port or where the exhaust was. I know it did not have any attachment storage. My parents made me throw it out since it was basically junk being it rusted out.
My guess is it was a very basic model from the 60s or 70s?
My grandmother told me once that her first vacuum was a GE swiveltop she got with S&H green stamps from the grocery store. When I was a kid the vacuum was long gone but she still had the attachments to it in her shed. In fact she may still have them. Once I showed her the GE I was given, and she said it looked just like the one she had.
One day I'd like to find one of those simply GE or Premier swiveltops. I never see any old GE vacuums here.