Trash Find Eureka and Hoover

[dirtdeviler]

Found both of these on the curb both run and have all attachments and are in the best shape. I have no clue how old the eureka is and have never seen a hoover in that color but love it was there a whole line of this color? Thanks Aiden

 

[eurekaprince]

That Eureka Princess canister is from the company's "avocado era" - anywhere from 1970 to 1975.

 

[compactc9guy]

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The blue one is a Hoover Futura predecessor to the wind tunnel canister mid 80's
The green one is a Eureka Princess mid 1970's if my memory serves me right

 

[fan-of-fans]

I agree the Eureka looks 70s, but I think the Futura is mid-90s. I remember they had a basic power nozzle model in that color with no headlight and plastic wands and it didn't have a floor brush included.

Great finds by the way!

 

[TheSpiritOf76]

The Eureka Princess....

Is from 1970. That color is not Avocado, it is actually Wild Moss green. According to paperwork, sales sheets and ads that I have seen over time. Wild Moss was a color they used starting in 1969, and all the way through the 70's, but there were different hues of the color.

 

[eurekaprince]

Thank you for that clarification Jason. I guess I always called those colours "avocado green" because so many major appliances (washers, dryers, etc) were being marketed with that colour name in the early 1970's. I always thought Eureka came up with the Wild Moss description for a slightly different green tone used on their round-hooded Continental upright series from 1976.

 

[dch112]

I purchased a Hoover Futura S3511, for the company I work for in 1993 that looks just like that except it is gray. It works good but I don't like the weird wands with the locking ring. The plastic pin can break easily, and it has.

 

[dch112]

Here's a picture of the gray one I mentioned. I'd be interested to know the model number of your blue Hoover. They are so much a like.

 

[TheSpiritOf76]

See, Eurekaprince....Also a update....

So, I have to adjust my information. I thought it was "Wild Moss" green, upon reading the ad, it is "Moss" green. So, I would say that "Wild Moss" was the 1976 brighter hue, that made it wild. To where the earlier "Moss" was the more muted with the slight shimmery finish. My mistake. Here is the ad stating as such, ad a reference.


 


Also...Avocado was not just a flat green tone, the point of that color, was that it was a creamy green in the center, and a gradually darker tone around the end, like looking at half of a cut avocado.

 

[dirtdeviler]

Dch112

Mine is model s3509 manufactured March 1992. It's my favorite straight suction canister right now.

 

[eurekaprince]

Thanks again Jason! That's great Eureka historical information! But this set of green Princesses date from a year or two before this advertisement - at the same time as the 2080 Vanguard Rugulator upright. I wonder if Eureka's literature for those years also used Moss Green to describe the Princesses.

There were only a few Eureka colours that I seem to remember from my childhood: Lagoon Blue from the early 1960's (kind of a turquoise), and Burnt Orange and Harvest Gold from about 1972 for the Sweet Sixteen canisters.