The 1960's just Exploded

[dysonman1]

Would LOVE to see and visit with you again Dave. We had a blast last time.

 

[DesertTortoise]

Dysonman1, I grew up in the late 1950's through mid 1970's but have no nostalgia for that era. I don't long for the past or most of that era's products. If you are honest that period wasn't all that great. I only look forward to the future. That is just my nature. I would never trade tomorrow for yesterday.

 

[DesertTortoise]

Is that a little toy Electrolux vac next to that home central vacuum? Cuuuuuute.

 

[Gr8DaneDad]

D-T,


 


That is most definitely not a toy. It is a savings bank to encourage thrift and savings toward ones very own Electrolux cleaning system.

 


Tom


 


 

 

[stricklybojack]

I'm not nostalgic per se, but...

i do find the 60's (give or take a few years) to be the most compelling era for my tastes and appreciation(s) of the design and build quality of the vacuums. I see a lot to like in these pics, thanks so much for posting.

See link for story behind the pic below.[this post was last edited: 8/27/2014-22:11]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...l-makers-apocalyptic-obsession-life-gone.html

 

[eurekastar]

Thanks for posting all the great photos and providing the descriptions! I look forward to touring the museum some day! I especially enjoyed seeing the GE upright. I've never seen one and hope to see it in person some day!

 

[DesertTortoise]

I see. So you place your spare change in the bag compartment? Call it a Luxy-bank perhaps?

 

[DesertTortoise]

Lol, that "sixties vacuum cleaner showroom" has significantly newer vacs in it than were available in the 60's.

 

[kirbyloverdan]

Tom

They look amazing great job you should be proud

Dan

 

[constellation86]

Wow great displays! I really need to see the museum.
What's the story on the round vacuum? I don't recognize it.
Nicholas

 

[dysonman1]

It's the magnificent Hamilton Beach "Hatbox".

 

[cleaningbuff]

Fabulous,,, As always.....Thanks
Tom, for the wonderful pics. Cant wait to visit again

Robert

 

[constellation86]

Thanks Tom. Do you have any more photos or info on the hatbox?
Nicholas

 

[pr-21]

Thank you for the memories.......

What a nice display of the 60's. I bought my mom a Hoover Convertible Model 70 around 1969. Brand new from a hardware store down the street from where my dad worked. Terrific vacuum cleaner, metal body. Back then it was around $69.00 or so and the attachments were included. Don't remember if it was on sale or not....



Thanks Tom,

PR-21
Bud Mattingly

 

[super-sweeper]

the 1960s just WHAT!????!?!

Somebody get the Operator on the line, they need help! Hurry before your 60s items disappear! 

 


Tom, the exhibit is BEAUTIFUL! It's sad that kids don't even know what a rotary phone is! Could you imagine kids having no idea what a iPhone is? Scary! One day I'm going to that museum, there's many vacuums I've never used behind those doors. Those Kenmores are amazing,a true staple in Sears history. I love my Duo-Power, but I'm still looking for those pieces of 60s glory!


 


I never knew they had the Sebo Felix in the 1960s! Still a neat picture, some of them look very realistic! There's something about abandoned buildings that fascinate me. The objects left behind, the stories they tell. But there's also a second side of it that keeps me awake at night!


 


I'm sure she cleans the commode in something interesting, Tom!


 


P.S- hey all you 'vintage' V.C.C.C members, I'd love to hear the tale of Lady Beverly Whispertone! 

 

[DesertTortoise]

Super_sweeper, if you want to see post apocalyptic ghost towns come on out to my part of the desert and I'll show you Trona (where the Trona High football field is hard packed dirt and the Trona team is tough), Keeler, Darwin, Cantil and Garlock.

This is my world:

https://www.google.com/search?q=tro...5CPAcLoggT0uYF4&ved=0CDEQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=598

https://www.google.com/search?q=dar...pGpDwgwSuiIK4Cw&ved=0CCoQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=598

https://www.google.com/search?q=dar...CCoQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=598#q=keeler+ca&tbm=isch

https://www.google.com/search?q=dar...iw=1366&bih=598#q=cantil+ca&tbm=isch&imgdii=_

The road depicted in the top right photo, Redrock-Randsburg Road, is one I drive twice a week at least. I got my last high speed driving award coming off the last rise in the distance heading towards the camera, effing Chippie with radar. There are some great high speed twisties further east at Garlock, not that the Desert Tortoise ever speeds.

 

[ronni]

Nice variety and display of vacuum cleaners, albeit the "arteest" in me is more color-conscious than calling all the blue-green machines "turquoise"--when, in fact, "aqua" or "cyan" are better general terms for the broad array ("turquoise" being more of a green-blue). Note the difference between the turquoise Water Matic and the aqua Model G in reply #5.

While the telephone is a nice touch it has been misplaced (look for a date stamp on the bottom or inside). In looking at TV shows, magazines, et cetera, the type of phone displayed was replaced in the late 1950s by the more stream-lined version that lasted into the 1980s. I suppose the phones were still available as refurbished in the '60s, but the style is still from the late '40s to the mid-'50s.

No, not everyone waxes nostalgic for the '60s. It was a period of flawed Johnsonian politics, social unrest, war, bigotry, illegal drugs,and violence (to name just a few of the decade's flaws). As one person that attended college in the '60s and was part of the social revolution told me, "All the things we fought for in the '60s ... by the '70s we wished we hadn't due to the upheaval it caused not only across the nation but in many families."Styles and colors, too, are a personal preference. While some may like the popularity of styles such as fins and striations along with such colors as aquas and golds others see them as garish. Let's all allow others to be entitled to their opinions as we like to be.

 

[kenkart]

I think Tom

Has done a great job, I love the older stuff, I dont see why anyone is interested in collecting, if they dont collect something old, to each his own, but I was born in 65 , if I could have been I would have loved to have been a young adult in the early 50s, thus being able to live thru what I believe to be our countrys finest period, about 52 thru about 63, after that it all went to h!@#, the Eisenhower and Kennedy years were the high water mark of America, not just the fact we had years of balanced budgets, and that in 1954 alone the US produced 2/3 of all goods made in the world, the music, the appliances the cars,the buildings the houses the department stores, I cant see how anyone would not like that period, one only has to look at the trash on the market today, from the sorry Chinese made clothes to the waferboard built houses, to the plastivacs, no quality, no features,you cant even buy a stove or washer with a flourescent light!,,My hats off to Tom for preserving some of it, im going to send him some rare disposable bags so those machines can be used as they were menant to be and if I can im going to help in any way I can, Tom has been a good friend for many years.

 

[briankirbyclass]

Thanks for the pics and all Tom!
I want to visit the museum again someday soon,,loved every minute spent there. Thanks again for all you do,Brian W.

 

[tig21er]

Thanks

for all the great pictures. When I saw the Sani Way I remembered the time I went to Bronson , Michigan to the factory and saw where they were made. A great experience.