dysonman . . .
These photos are fantastic, thanks for taking the time to put all this together! Missouri is the “Show Me State” and clearly you’ve got a lot of wonderful stuff to show.
I’m not nostalgic for the ‘60s specifically, but rather for a time when small appliances were seen as important and worthy of careful, creative design, good quality construction and were intended to be well maintained and repaired. That hasn’t gone away entirely but as we know the majority of small appliances these days are made as cheaply as possible and aren’t reasonably repairable. Boring to look at and generally uninspiring to use compared to the old stuff.
In reply 11 you commented on the excellence of the Air-Way Priscilla rug tool along with that of the Apex Strato-Cleaner. This could be a subject for a great thread since straight suction rug tools have been seen as obsolete by most manufacturers for the last 40 years; it would be interesting to see which ones are best and what they look like.
