The Vacuum Cleaner Collector's Club.
Hi fantonfan57:
Back in August, 1980 I went to the Hoover Historical Center, and came home with tons of material on non electric, early electric and Hoover vacuum cleaners. I didn't know it at the time but I was laying the groundwork for the VCCC.
In September of 82 my friend, and Hoover collector, John Lucia,and I returned to the center, and were given the names of 5 other collectors. As we were leaving I asked john "think we should start a club?" his exact words were, "I doubt if any of these guy's will be interested, but write them and ask." In January of 83 we were up and running.
Our basic concept was to be a teaching club, and resource center, so helping members locate and or acquire parts was what the club was all about.
Long before there was an internet there was the swap-box, the classified section of the newsletter, and here members traded, or acquired parts, machines, and instruction books.
So helping vacuumlad1650 with parts to his model LX is just a throwback of what I've always done.
I'm there for my fellow collector.
Alex Taber.
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