So, I'm looking for some Ad's

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Hi Folks
Im looking to get some Vacuum Ad's, anywhere from 1908 to around 1965. Any Brand, and Vacuum!
I want to make a collage, as well as a screen saver, so i think vintage Ad's would be perfect
Vintage Hoover and Electrolux ad's especially!
Thanks!!
Andy
 
Cool adds!

Not getting the relation to a Kirby and the sound of music. Surely the Von Trapp's would have had the housekeeping staff use a Miele or a Lux.
 
Jae,

All great but more please on--
photo 1--Any information on back?
photo 7--WOW!Great layout of COLOR,style & design!Is this IBAISAIC newsletter?Or other?Was the color stylist working for Hoover only at that time?Other pages?Close up of print(barely legible here)?
Thanks,Jimmy
 
How Sound of Music and D-50 connect

Looking at the Kirby ad they have a Kirby D-50, the Sound of Music and the Gateway Arch.  All 1965 events. 


 


The Arch history BTW indicates the Arch was completed 10-28-65, but did not open to the public until 1968.  "


<div class="df_fb df_ps" tabindex="0">The Gateway Arch was designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and German-American structural engineer Hannskarl Bandel in 1947. Construction began on February 12, 1963, and was completed on October 28, 1965, for $13 million ($175 million in 2012 dollars)."</div>
 


At least that would be how I would connect them in my mind.
 
Harley!! Your are! The SOM debut on Broadway in 1963, became a world famous movie in 1965. the St. Louis arch also started construction in 1963, finished in 1968 and opened to the public in 1968 and the Dual 50 debuted in 1965. Winner!
 
For more than one reason, I wish I'd been born in 1965...lol. Our neighbor bought a D50 and I begged my parents to trade in our 505..nope..nothing doing..nothing wrong with the old one! So, I vacuumed for my neighbor once in a while, she was more than glad to let me.
 
The Sound of Music on Broadway.

Hi luxflairguy:

A Minor correction here.

The Sound of Music was based on the book 'The Story of the Trapp Family Singers' by Maria Augusta Trapp, J. P. Lipincot publisher 1949. The Story was first a German movie "Der Trapp Family" in 1956, and actress Mary Martin saw the movie and took the idea to Rodgers and Hammerstien in 1958. The show was to be called "The Singing Heart," but became "The Sound of music!" It opened for try-out in New Haven, Connecticut on October 3, 1959 (I was in the audience) and had it's Broadway opening on November 16, 1959.

As for the movie, that was filmed in 1964 and had it's gala opening on March 4, 1965

Why do I know all this? because my family were a close personal friends with the Von Trapps, especially the 'real' Maria, who prefered to be called 'Mother Trapp!'

The picture shown is from the Kirby timeline, so both the movie and that model of Kirby did come out in 1965.
 
Thanks Mr. Taber! I'm so glad you feel the need to respond with a nitpicking response. This is the 3rd strike in my list of why I'm leaving Vacuumalnd. There was no need for your rude posting. Greg Bushman
 
Thanks for all the Ad's so far, i LOVE The older pictures!

Also, can we PLEASE Not turn this into a huge argument about who's information about one thing is more correct than another person's?

Andy
 
Just stating the facts.

It certainly was not my intention to insult or offend you, but The Sound of Music is my all-time favorite Broadway show, and it's also my all-time favorite movie.

Many of us here make little corrections about facts that are incorrect, and I've always appreciated it if a member corrected me, but I never went off the deep end over it. My comment was simply to tell why Kirby used those two pictures in their timeline.
 
I wish you didn't do that, that was a good post! I thought it was some really great information you shared with all of us here on V-Land, and I really did appreciate it a whole lot as I'm sure others did also. That was a great life experience and I'm glad you shared it...Stay strong my friend!


 
 
Alex

Thank you for the additional information about the Sound of Music.  It must have been something to have known Mother Maria.


 


 


Just sael la ve.
 
Let's start this again.

Thank you cb123 and Kirbysthebest:

The movie The Sound of Music had it's start in 1949 when Maria Augusta Trapp wrote the book 'The Story of the Trapp Family Singers,' published by J.P. Lipencot. That book was turned into the 1956 German film 'The Trapp Family' which actress Mary Martin saw and wanted to do as a stage play. Because of her success in South Pacific, Mary took the movie to Rodgers and Hammerstien asking them to put it on Broadway. The original title was to be 'The Singing Heart.'

That show, now a musical, and renamed "The Sound of Music" had it's first try-out on October 3, 1959 in New Haven, Connecticut (and I was in the audience.) From there it went to Boston, and then to New York, opening on Broadway November 16, (1959) and became a smash hit.

In the Spring of 1964 production began with Julie Andrews as Maria in the film version, and it had it's opening gala on March 4, 1965. And the rest, as they say, is history.

Long beore there was a German film my family had become friends with the Von Trapps. The 'real' Maria was no Julie Andrews, she was one tough woman! but then she had to be to have lived the life she did. However, that's for another post.
 
Ok, 1965 it is!

I was quite young, but I remember that year. It was a great year mostly. Better than 1963, or 1968 for sure. '67 was good, except for the rioting.
I missed the deleted posts, but I didn't read anything that made me want to flee the heat of the kitchen.
I also read about some labor tensions during construction of the great arch.
 
Mother Maria.

Hi Kirbysthebest:

As I said she was no Julie Andrews! Anybody who knew her called her 'mother Trapp' and she, along with the rest of the family had dropped the 'Von' in 1948 when they became citizens of the United States.

Our family connection goes back to 1939 when the Trapps first came to America and settled in Philadelphia. There were two daughters Rosemarie age 10, and Eleonore about 8. As they were far too young to travel with the family, lived in New York with friends of ours. Years later, my mother and Rosemarie would work together at a hospital in New Haven, Connecticut.

But it was the Broadway musical that started it for me, I became a theater buff, and as I've always loved classical, this music was perfect for me. The Trapp home became a ski lodge in the late 1940's and a great vacation spot for me long after the movie came out.
 
Hi vacerator.

The heading of the post was "Minor correction," and I followed that with "The Sound of Music is my all-time favorite Broadway musical, and it's also my all-time favorite movie." It was then that I went into the history of book, German film, stage show and movie. I followed that with "it was the Kirby company which decided to use all three, movie, Arch and D-50 in their timeline." That's all there was.

So, to quote the late Paul Harvey. "And now you know the rest of the story!"
 
I missed so much!

LOVE The Sound Of Music... who couldn't?


  I MUST see that arch NEXT time I go to MO.  It's the only thing I missed. I'll also visit Rick Asquith... if that would be OK.  I WILL return to MO.. and,  a return to the glorious FOX !


  Are we all calmed down now?  Do I have to sing "The Trolley Song"?
 
And................

I think I have all of the vacs that go with my ads, yay!.


 


 And, as far as LEAVING The VCCC Ans/or VL.  my advice, and it's only MY advice:  Don't give ANYONE that much power!! EVER!


  I almost left yrs ago.. Some folks love to start a fight... throw gas on a fire.. it drives them absloutely insane when they realize they're not getting to you. So,  sit back,  post, enjoy,  and ignore the TOXINS................. for you'll never ever really be rid of them.


  Don't  give  anyone   that   kind   of    power.  YOU'RE worth more than that.  Just my $.02.


 John


 
 

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