poconovacman
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Last Friday I paid another visit to John Gregory's store on Drinker Street. No real rhyme or reason for dropping in, just a social visit. John had a barn burner of a morning that day. Customer after customer, from the silliest repairs (i.e. a bagless T Series with a costume Michael Jackson glove stuck in the hose) to sales of brand new bagged WindTunnels. By the time I arrived, he was looking for a much needed break!
As always, I ended up spending several hours more than intended visiting with John. One never knows what surprises he has in store when a friend comes to visit. You all may remember in my last post from the store, I had sold him my minty 1999 Self Propelled Hoover WindTunnel because I was in dire financial condition and needed to put gas in the Explorer. At the time, the gas meant more to me than the cleaner that I had owned since I was a kid.
Rambling aside, the cleaner was sitting in the showroom cleaned, serviced, polished, and waiting for some lucky customer to buy it. You could have knocked me over with a feather when John insisted that I take it back home, refusing to take the money back that he had given me for it. I was very touched when he said "Had I known how much this vacuum meant to you, I never would have bought it from you. Take it home again."
After a fabulous 4 hour visit, I had to leave to go to work. John insisted that I take a box filled with little odds and ends in the form of genuine Hoover parts from the glory days of North Canton, the near mint 1070 hood, the Self Propelled WindTunnel, and a very nice blue WindTunnel Supreme dated early 2007, one of the very last to be produced in North Canton before the sale of Hoover to TTI.
Our visit began with him sitting down on a Hoover medallion emblazoned barstool to put his "Thinking Hood" on in the form of a beautiful 1070 hood that he later presented to me as a gift.
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As always, I ended up spending several hours more than intended visiting with John. One never knows what surprises he has in store when a friend comes to visit. You all may remember in my last post from the store, I had sold him my minty 1999 Self Propelled Hoover WindTunnel because I was in dire financial condition and needed to put gas in the Explorer. At the time, the gas meant more to me than the cleaner that I had owned since I was a kid.
Rambling aside, the cleaner was sitting in the showroom cleaned, serviced, polished, and waiting for some lucky customer to buy it. You could have knocked me over with a feather when John insisted that I take it back home, refusing to take the money back that he had given me for it. I was very touched when he said "Had I known how much this vacuum meant to you, I never would have bought it from you. Take it home again."
After a fabulous 4 hour visit, I had to leave to go to work. John insisted that I take a box filled with little odds and ends in the form of genuine Hoover parts from the glory days of North Canton, the near mint 1070 hood, the Self Propelled WindTunnel, and a very nice blue WindTunnel Supreme dated early 2007, one of the very last to be produced in North Canton before the sale of Hoover to TTI.
Our visit began with him sitting down on a Hoover medallion emblazoned barstool to put his "Thinking Hood" on in the form of a beautiful 1070 hood that he later presented to me as a gift.
[this post was last edited: 9/22/2013-22:33]
