A lady from my former church stopped by for lunch yesterday as she was in the neighborhood. My newly refurbished 560 was still standing in the living room. When she saw it she said, "WOW! When I was a little girl we had that EXACT vacuum cleaner! I clearly remember the pretty gold sunburst on the front of it!"
She went over and had a look at it, exclaiming how beautiful it was. And get this -- she thought it was new!! She said, "I can't believe they haven't changed the style of their vacuum in all these years!" I let out a great chuckle and exclaimed it was not new at all, but had just had a "semi-spa treatment."
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And speaking of gold sunbursts ... I have spoken in the past at some length about the iconography in Electrolux logos with roots in Freemasonry and other esoteric and hermetic origins.
Now I have just realized that here, staring me in the face for many years, is a Kirby logo containing esoteric symbology.
The 560 belt lifter is a circle within a triangle -- known as the "Trine Compass" in Freemasonry. The belt lifter itself is the triangle, then the circle within it is the circular Kirby logo. To top it off is the golden radiance behind the Kirby logo -- called a "Glory" in Freemasonry. Coincidence??!
