A beautiful group of machines!
Those great colors!! ...like a big box of Crayolas.
John
Those great colors!! ...like a big box of Crayolas.
John
Pictures From Last Summer's Acquisitions
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hygiene903
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Thank You!
Thank you all for the kind compliments. Glad you enjoyed the pics, even though it took me a year to get them posted!
Ben, you are correct, the 890 does have the same bag as my 1983 903. Must have been replaced at some point, as I'm thinking it would have originally had a cloth outer bag with a similar color scheme.
Jim and Norm, always a pleasure to have you in my home to visit & vacuum! Having friends close enough to visit now & then is one of the things that makes it fun! Looking forward to our next visit.
Mike, the camera I used is a cheap Kodak 35 millimeter. It does take good pics except that what you see in the viewfinder is actually farther away than the viewfinder shows it.
I am blessed indeed to have such a generous friend to have given me these fine machines, I only wish I could thank him publicly for this wonderful gift.
Jeff
Thank you all for the kind compliments. Glad you enjoyed the pics, even though it took me a year to get them posted!
Ben, you are correct, the 890 does have the same bag as my 1983 903. Must have been replaced at some point, as I'm thinking it would have originally had a cloth outer bag with a similar color scheme.
Jim and Norm, always a pleasure to have you in my home to visit & vacuum! Having friends close enough to visit now & then is one of the things that makes it fun! Looking forward to our next visit.
Mike, the camera I used is a cheap Kodak 35 millimeter. It does take good pics except that what you see in the viewfinder is actually farther away than the viewfinder shows it.
I am blessed indeed to have such a generous friend to have given me these fine machines, I only wish I could thank him publicly for this wonderful gift.
Jeff
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nice machines..
hygiene903
Jeff,
I also wanted to say that the bag currently on your '71 606 is from an early '80s Royal Commercial upright (c. 1982-86), which means a replacement bag there, too.
Ditto for the 603. I wonder what it says on the front of that bag?
Thank you,
Ben
Jeff,
I also wanted to say that the bag currently on your '71 606 is from an early '80s Royal Commercial upright (c. 1982-86), which means a replacement bag there, too.
Ditto for the 603. I wonder what it says on the front of that bag?
Thank you,
Ben
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Always enjoy your posts, Jeff. Beautiful machines. You know I am head over heals for seeing the lineup of coffee can hoovers!
eurekaprince
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Hey Jeff!
There it is. Finally. The exact turquoise Eureka upright of my childhood - a model 260 with the exact bag graphics as I remember them. It's possible this one has the graphics in gold for a 50th anniversary version - the graphic on the one I grew up with was white. But nonetheless, that's the closest thing I've seen to my "Holy Grail"!
Looks like the headlight lens is also a replacement....not the original with the criss-cross pattern.....but again - very close!
Thanks for the memories!
There it is. Finally. The exact turquoise Eureka upright of my childhood - a model 260 with the exact bag graphics as I remember them. It's possible this one has the graphics in gold for a 50th anniversary version - the graphic on the one I grew up with was white. But nonetheless, that's the closest thing I've seen to my "Holy Grail"!
Looks like the headlight lens is also a replacement....not the original with the criss-cross pattern.....but again - very close!
Thanks for the memories!
hygiene903
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Here It Is!
Just for you Brian, a pic of the Eureka 260 by itself! Enjoy!
Jeff
Just for you Brian, a pic of the Eureka 260 by itself! Enjoy!
Jeff
hygiene903
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Brandon,
Glad you enjoyed the pics! The coffee can Hoovers are some of my favorites, too! Here's one from the lineup you'll especially love, an 825 that's all original except for the bag! Enjoy!
Jeff
Glad you enjoyed the pics! The coffee can Hoovers are some of my favorites, too! Here's one from the lineup you'll especially love, an 825 that's all original except for the bag! Enjoy!
Jeff
hygiene903
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Ben,
I knew the bag on the 603 was a replacement, but didn't know the one on the 606 was as well. Here's a pic of the 603 by itself. Says Royal Prince II on the bag.
Jeff
I knew the bag on the 603 was a replacement, but didn't know the one on the 606 was as well. Here's a pic of the 603 by itself. Says Royal Prince II on the bag.
Jeff
Royal Prince II
Jeff,
That bag on the 603 is all the more rare because of what it says on it ("ROYAL PRINCE II"). That bag is quite a mystery, God only knows where that one was originally from, but it can't be earlier than the mid 1980s.
~Ben
Jeff,
That bag on the 603 is all the more rare because of what it says on it ("ROYAL PRINCE II"). That bag is quite a mystery, God only knows where that one was originally from, but it can't be earlier than the mid 1980s.
~Ben
eurekaprince
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Thanks for the close-up, Jeff.....I want so badly to jump right into the picture and clean up the blue cord to make it look like new! I can even remember the unique Eureka aroma from the rubber on the cord!!!!
*hums Barbra Streisand's "Memories....like the corners of your mind...*
*hums Barbra Streisand's "Memories....like the corners of your mind...*
hygiene903
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Sorry Brian,
But the cord isn't blue. The cord, bag, and trim are all green, although the bumper does look more blue than green in the picture. Maybe it was the way the light hit it.
Jeff
But the cord isn't blue. The cord, bag, and trim are all green, although the bumper does look more blue than green in the picture. Maybe it was the way the light hit it.
Jeff
eurekaprince
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Ah.....that explains the gold graphic on the bag. Thanks for that clarifiction, Jeff!
So it's not the "exact" Eureka of my childhood. The thing that threw me off was the silver frame around the headlight. That must have been a replacement. The green and gold 260 was the 1957 golden anniversary edition (matched the golden anniversary edition of the Roto-Matic canister). I think once 1957 was over, they changed the colour scheme to turquoise with silver accents. So my childhood 260 must be from 1958 or 1959 (the year in which I was born).
You can see that the plastic hose port cover in front of the headlight also has gold in it. My version had silver accents, not gold.
Still very close though! :-D
So it's not the "exact" Eureka of my childhood. The thing that threw me off was the silver frame around the headlight. That must have been a replacement. The green and gold 260 was the 1957 golden anniversary edition (matched the golden anniversary edition of the Roto-Matic canister). I think once 1957 was over, they changed the colour scheme to turquoise with silver accents. So my childhood 260 must be from 1958 or 1959 (the year in which I was born).
You can see that the plastic hose port cover in front of the headlight also has gold in it. My version had silver accents, not gold.
Still very close though! :-D
actually,
there were several, the Green and gold was first for the Anniversary edition. the they switched to blue and clean white (brain if you remember i have that one), and the only change ive seen besides the color is the green had the old style bag clamp system, and the blue was updated for the screw on bag system. and there was one more, another blue with a round handle, and the two speed switch in the front of the handle, and a chrome hood. as opposed to the white painted hood, that was the last of the 260. i think Eureka ran the 260 from 57, to around even early 1960.
there were several, the Green and gold was first for the Anniversary edition. the they switched to blue and clean white (brain if you remember i have that one), and the only change ive seen besides the color is the green had the old style bag clamp system, and the blue was updated for the screw on bag system. and there was one more, another blue with a round handle, and the two speed switch in the front of the handle, and a chrome hood. as opposed to the white painted hood, that was the last of the 260. i think Eureka ran the 260 from 57, to around even early 1960.
eurekaprince
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You know, that's what seems to make my childhood Eureka so difficult to find: ours was blue and white with silver accents, but had the boxy graphic at the top of the bag like Jeff's green version, and also had the screwless "clamp-on" bag neck at the bottom which hooked onto a pin on the motorhood..
Ours had a square metal one-piece handle with a black 3 way switch on the back of the handle.....no rubber grip.....always wondered what the shipping carton may have looked like - did they package the long handle in another box?
Ours had a square metal one-piece handle with a black 3 way switch on the back of the handle.....no rubber grip.....always wondered what the shipping carton may have looked like - did they package the long handle in another box?
Jeff,
I found out that bag on your 603 actually belongs on a model 870, of which the below picture is.
~Ben
I found out that bag on your 603 actually belongs on a model 870, of which the below picture is.
~Ben
