Photo of a girl using an early Compact

[electrolux137]

I saw this photo on an eBay listing today.

If you look in the background you can see the original Compact box!

 

[kevin]

That's a nice pic Charles; not only in terms of a candid photo of a vintage machine being used, but also of a young girl learning responsibility by sharing in the maintenance of her family's abode--even on Christmas morning!

The harlequin glasses would have given away if "1961" hadn't been used in the title of the eBay listing.

Here are some other candid vintage vacuum photos; also from eBay (I'm not familiar with the brands/models):

 

[kevin]

Another use for a canister vac...

 

[kevin]

Undoubtedly another Christmas gift (see the mantle tree and tinsel)...and another set of harlequin eyeglasses!

 

[kevin]

There's more than one way to "...See no Dirt!" haha

 

[super-sweeper]

All those vacuum cleaners,

Are all oddly enough, G-E!


(Except for that April 1959 picture).


 


In order, the first is an early swivel-top, the second a standard tank cleaner (Replaced by the swivel top around the early 1950s),


and the 3rd appears to be a model AVF-26 of the late 1940s, that bag doesn't seem original, though. it would've been brown and lighter brown with the G-E logo? Oh, Wait! looking again that's one of those chrome-plated models! you can see one on Vacuumland's homepage, the section with the rotating vacuum pictures! so that bag is original!

 

[super-sweeper]

Also,

It strikes me as to why people would sell their family heirlooms? unless, not their family at all?

 

[caligula]

Hi Kevin.

The vacuum cleaner in the picture 'Kathy's find,' is an early  General Electric swivel Top, perhaps the first. It came out around 1952. The other two are also G.E. Both the swivel Top and tank are posted here, I'll also post the upright so you can see that.


 


Alex Taber. 

 

[super-sweeper]

No more drag about tragedys!

How could I forget!? This old commercial showing how that old G.E tank style was old and knocked your stuff on the floor, smashing it to bits! whereas the NEW G-E Swivel-top cleaner allowed for <span style="text-decoration: underline;">REACH-EASY CLEANING!</span>

 

[caligula]

Hi Kevin.

The two General Electric uprights pictured here (by the 7-Up can) may not be the exact model, or have the same bag, but you get the idea. By the way this was taken at the second annual meeting of the V.C.C.C. in May of 86. Looks like we're taking a break from the business meeting. The picture on the floor was our first club logo.


 


Alex Taber.

 

[kevin]

Barefoot co-ed vacuuming (Electrolux Model XXX?):

 

[rugsucker]

celebrity vac photos

I have seen,and have'in a box somewhere',pics of Audry Meadows & sister with an Elux XXX and Johnny Carson taking an Oreck upright on board his boat at marina.Both were from National Enquirer or similar paper.

 

[kevin]

Isn't That the Cat's Pajamas?

Woman vacuuming with a Kirby (guessing 1950s):

 

[kevin]

Current pic from Kirby website ... A young girl vacuuming with a Kirby Sentria II while Mom and baby watch:

 

[kevin]

"[Boys] are [cleaners], too: wokka doo, wokka doo, wokka doo!" (From the song "Kids are People Too", the theme song of "Wonderama", a children's tv show that ran from 1955 - 1986. I don't recognize the vacuum cleaner he's using:

 

[kevin]

Oops!

 

[kenkart]

Re GE

That GE is a C-2 it came out in 54.

 

[super-sweeper]

which G-E?

There's plenty on this thread to choose from!

 

[kevin]

Re: Kenkart's reply (#16) I think he was referring to reply #1.

Not sure what vacuum cleaner brand or model this is: