Saturday nite Auction Finds! Some I have never seen before.

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I traveled to New Castle, Indiana for an auction tonite and these are a few of what I found.

 

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Kenmore and Singer

 

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Concept II and What ever a Triple S is, and another Kenmore

 

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The Kenmore

 

[eurekaprince]

The "Triple S" vac is a Dial-A-Nap F&G Bag Upright made by Eureka....

 

[kirbyloverdan]

Nice vacuums

but it looks like they belonged to heavy smokers as yellowed as the plastic is .

 

[stricklybojack]

Yellowed plastic

I think in the case of the Concept 2 at least, it is actually sun-faded camel/tan...i have the same color scheme on a Concept 1 & was fixing a buddies same model/color scheme vac, yet because of the sun fading on mine they looked very different in a side by side comparison. Didn't snap a pic though...

 

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These are the other 3 uprights I bought last nite.

 

[kloveland]

Hoover Convertible

The Hoover Convertible pictured is just like the one my great-grandmother had before she passed in 1991. The vacuum went to our house for a short time before we had to give it to another family member.

I remember her asking me at the age of four or five how to use the tools. Brings back memories.

 

[joejoe83]

My mom had that same Hoover Convertible, she brought it back in 1991 used and it lasted until 2001 when one day I vacuumed and it just quit.

 

[kloveland]

They’re great aren’t they!

Really like the color combination on this model.

Just finished talking with my grandmother. My great-grandmother must have purchased this model when she built her new home around 1985. She wanted a new home and apparently a new Hoover as well. I remember her struggling to put on the converter to use her cleaning tools in her foyer. She had a big formal living room and dining room right off her foyer. It was a big house for her to keep up with at her age. My grandmother said she would sit in her formal living with her mixed drink and just take in her surroundings. My great grandmother (mom Alice) was a character! My grandmother said she loved it when I would vacuum for her.

She had a heart attack in 1990 on Easter at my aunt’s home here in Tulsa. She collapsed on the driveway and my sister who was also very young ran into the house screaming! We all knew something terrible had happened. I remember my uncle brought a pillow to her to keep her comfortable, while we were waiting for the ambulance to arrive. She later passed on in the hospital during open-heart surgery.

A couple weeks later after she had passed a big moving truck pulled up into our driveway. My grandmother let me borrow her Hoover Convertible, because I wanted it so badly. My mother already had a tan Hoover Convertible that she had received as a wedding present, when she married my father. I got to play with my great-grandmothers Hoover for a couple of weeks. Then it had to go to my uncle and his wife because they needed a vacuum cleaner. Rats!!!!