compactelectra
Well-known member
In the job of Webmaster, I get many emails, mostly asking what the beat up old vacuum in the basement is worth. Sometimes I get a heartwarming one that makes me feel good to answer. Here's one from today:
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Hello,
I found your vacuum cleaner club web page and wonder if you might be able to help me. My grandmother just passed away a few weeks ago at the age of 99. She would have been 100 on Feb. 14. I am trying to write a poem in her memory and I want to use the name of the vaccuum sweeper she used for so many years in my poem. I cannot remember the name of the sweeper.
It was a canister model, and the canister was brown. It came with a full set of attachments (brushes, wands, etc) and an extension or two. The base of the unit was a round container that held water. You would then "clip" the brown part (the shell) of the unit onto the water container; then unclip it after vacuuming and empty the dirty water out of the water container. This sweeper would have been used in the 60s--possibly part of the 50s as well. From what I can remember, I want to think that the brand started with an "O," but It was not an Oreck. I believe it was an off-brand. I do not know where it was purchased. She lived in Ohio.
I do not have any photos. Do you have any idea what brand of sweeper this might have been?
Thank you for your time,
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Of course, that would have been a Rainbow. I supplied her with some information and a link to the Rainbow history page where she could find the exact machine.
Fred
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Hello,
I found your vacuum cleaner club web page and wonder if you might be able to help me. My grandmother just passed away a few weeks ago at the age of 99. She would have been 100 on Feb. 14. I am trying to write a poem in her memory and I want to use the name of the vaccuum sweeper she used for so many years in my poem. I cannot remember the name of the sweeper.
It was a canister model, and the canister was brown. It came with a full set of attachments (brushes, wands, etc) and an extension or two. The base of the unit was a round container that held water. You would then "clip" the brown part (the shell) of the unit onto the water container; then unclip it after vacuuming and empty the dirty water out of the water container. This sweeper would have been used in the 60s--possibly part of the 50s as well. From what I can remember, I want to think that the brand started with an "O," but It was not an Oreck. I believe it was an off-brand. I do not know where it was purchased. She lived in Ohio.
I do not have any photos. Do you have any idea what brand of sweeper this might have been?
Thank you for your time,
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Of course, that would have been a Rainbow. I supplied her with some information and a link to the Rainbow history page where she could find the exact machine.
Fred
