Yeah Chad. I've heard these extra long sofas referred to as davenports, too. There's also the chunkier overstuffed Chesterfield size and a couch is just a couch, I suppose. Anyway, it was in perfect condition and I luv the grandeur of the fat carved posts under the arms. It is so spectacularly ugly - in an appealing way - it could only be vacuumed I think, with a Green flowered Sunbeam Challenger.
Honest to Gawd, it is sooo long, low and comfortable I've half a mind to ask Pete to pick it up for me in the truck and I'll haul it home on the boat trailer. LOL Seriously!
My current 'davenport' is almost as long but dreadfully tattered under a canvas coverup from 20 years of hard knocks and cat scratchpost duty. But I've not seen anything as long & low to replace it with. For this one I would cheerfully pitch the old one to the dump.
I like the massager unit and it is very effective at numbing and relaxing muscles. Easy to connect but you'd have to develop an enjoyment of the accompanying whoosh of the vacuum and the loud-ish frapping low drone of the Diaphone valve.
My Mom and Gramma had the FQ Hairdryers and used them regularly. For Sunday Church Mom would set my sister's hair up in rag knots and shove her under the FQ hood for 30 minutes. Little girls didn't get Perms back then in our neighborhood - the 1960s.
Firestone/Kingston/Monitor - going to start a new thread on these.
Chad, Pete and I have discussed how we should have a Vac Meet for our Michigan/SW Ontario area some day. Ann Arbor is so close to Port Huron/Sarnia. It'll have to wait until Nov/Dec/Jan/Feb with my work schedule. tho'.
