VACUUM CLEANER GRAVEYARDS
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thare is a place in nj that I go to for nos parts the place is very big and it smells musty thare are vacuums as far as the eye can see this was the best shop to get things fixed from 1950 to 1975 now the only thing that keeps thare is the nos parts it is a vacuum grave yard I have pulled many vacuums toasters and fans out of thare but you never know what is wrong with them they went thare for somthing and never made it out
thare is a place in nj that I go to for nos parts the place is very big and it smells musty thare are vacuums as far as the eye can see this was the best shop to get things fixed from 1950 to 1975 now the only thing that keeps thare is the nos parts it is a vacuum grave yard I have pulled many vacuums toasters and fans out of thare but you never know what is wrong with them they went thare for somthing and never made it out
alexb1186
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There are two in MO
1. Kirksville Vacuum Center on North Baltimore right across from Hy-Vee. The owner has PILES of vacuums upstairs in his house, on the salesfloor, and in his storage unit.
2. House of Vacuums in Sedalia. John, the owner, has a storage area across the street from his shop where I found a couple gems
1. Kirksville Vacuum Center on North Baltimore right across from Hy-Vee. The owner has PILES of vacuums upstairs in his house, on the salesfloor, and in his storage unit.
2. House of Vacuums in Sedalia. John, the owner, has a storage area across the street from his shop where I found a couple gems
centralvacman
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Vacuum graveyard on broadway st
this is in fort wayne IN if you drive south of downtown on broadway ST you cant miss the vacuums ,they are in front of the store,I stopped there & took these photos
this is in fort wayne IN if you drive south of downtown on broadway ST you cant miss the vacuums ,they are in front of the store,I stopped there & took these photos
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more of fort wayne IN
the vacuum shop on broadway st
the vacuum shop on broadway st
I spy with my little eye,
Perhaps a "few" that I wouldn't mind liberating. So...did you end up getting that lovely orange hoover convertible? What does he sell these for?
Guy
Perhaps a "few" that I wouldn't mind liberating. So...did you end up getting that lovely orange hoover convertible? What does he sell these for?
Guy
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I have a great vac graveyard story
involving Stan Kann and me. Let me see if I can find it; I've written it out before.......
involving Stan Kann and me. Let me see if I can find it; I've written it out before.......
charles~richard
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Well. I haven't yet found the "Stan Kann and Me&quo
graveyard story yet, but I did find a pretty amazing photo. And I have another one or two to post as well once I get them scanned.
This HUGE mountain of vacuums is from a Filter Queen dealership. Can you imagine finding that warehouse intact today?! Just LOOK at all the treasures in that vast mountain o vacs!
graveyard story yet, but I did find a pretty amazing photo. And I have another one or two to post as well once I get them scanned.
This HUGE mountain of vacuums is from a Filter Queen dealership. Can you imagine finding that warehouse intact today?! Just LOOK at all the treasures in that vast mountain o vacs!
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Another "Mound O Trade-ins"
This photo was taken at a Compact dealership, if I recall correctly.
This photo was taken at a Compact dealership, if I recall correctly.
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IF ONLY time travel were possible! In the first picture that Charles posted, look how many Air-Way and Electroluxes there are! How can they treat those vacuums like that? :-D Oh, well!
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The World's Biggest Vacuum Cleaner Graveyard?
[I -FINALLY- found this story about the huge vacuum cleaner graveyard that I explored with Stan Kann. btw, this story appears on my "Hoover" page -- see link below.]
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One day I was looking at 'for-sale' ads in the Recycler, a local buy-and-sell newspaper in the Los Angeles area. This was back in the early 1990s, well before the Internet was what it is today. I saw an ad that really made me stop in my tracks:
“400 Vacuums, 400 Dollars” and then a phone number.
That's all it said. My interest highly piqued, I called the number. I found out that the ad had been placed by the son of a man who had had a Hoover dealership in the Glendale area for many years, and had retired and closed his shop about 25 years previously. When he closed his shop, he moved all his intentory to his house, storing it ... in his back yard!
The man had just recently died, and the son inherited the house. He wanted to renovate the house and grounds, and he wanted to get rid of all the vacuum cleaners. He finally was convinced when I told him that it would be unlikely to find any one person who would want them all, but I'd certainly be interested to see what he had and would take as many as I could.
I got directions to the house, which was in Eagle Rock, and made an appointment to come out there..
You just have to have seen the sight that greeted us when Stan Kann (whom I talked into coming along) and I walked into the enormous back yard of this man's home.
Envision a yard about the size of half a football field. In the yard were about a dozen huge mounds of STUFF covered with giant, heavy-duty blue vinyl tarps. The mounds varied in size but most were around 10-12 feet in diamater and from 8 to 10 feet high!!
Stan and I walked to the first pile and lifted the first tarp. Underneath was a sight that nearly defied description: A mountain of old vacuum cleaners, mostly upright Hoovers, none of them new. Most of them were old Hoovers from the 1930s through mid-1960s with a smattering of other machines as well.
We both gasped in shock and began digging through the pile. The cleaners' cords and handles were hopelessly entertwined with one another so pulling them apart was practically an exercise in futility. Finally, we decided the only way to do it would be to cut the cords some of the cords and pull the machines apart that way.
We spent two long days, from morning till night, laboriously digging through those dozen vacuum cleaner mountains.
Interestingly the vast majority of machines were uprights. There were no Filter Queens, Lewyts, etc., and no Hoover tanks or canisters. There were only a few old Electrolux XXXs that were in bad shape and not worth salvaging.
Stan was a bit disappointed that he really didn't find much of any interest to him, but I came home with quite a few treasures, some of which even Stan was amazed to see.
I found:
— A Kenmore Imperial, with the original bag, cord, handle grip and brush roll in incredible condition. When we came upon that Stan loudly declared, “Well, would you look at that! A Bug-Eye!” I had to “sssshhh” him a couple of times when we'd find something jaw-dropping ... I didn’t want the man to get any ideas about this stuff being a goldmine! (Most of it really was ruined.)
— An “America” straight-suction upright from around 1915.
— A Hoover Model 102 with the original cord and brush roll but lacking the bag.
— Several Hoovers ... Model 700, 725, 750, 825, 450, 28, etc., in varying states of completeness and condition.
— A Hoover Model 925 with (what I thought at the time was) the original bag, rubber handle grip, original Hoover plug, brush roll and in immaculate condition.
— A Hoover Model 475 also all original and in immaculate condition (the one featured here!).
— A Canadian Electrolux ZB88, the strange-looking maroon model that, to me, never having ever seen one before, looked like something from a parallel dimension!
— And quite a few other odds and ends of things, so many that I just can't recall them all. This included several boxes of upright brush rolls, including a number of the very early Hoover tufted-brush rolls for the pre 543 models.
Many of the machines, despite being out of doors, were in amazingly good condition. The man's son said that all that stuff had been out there the entire 25+ years since the store had been closed. The ones in the best condition were the ones in the middle areas of the piles. The ones nearest the top and bottom were rusted and corroded but the ones in-between were very well protected.
I hate to say how many hundreds and hundreds of machines we had to leave behind, that the man said he would have to send to the dump. (I was the only person who had responded to his ad.) There were just so many of them, and there were a lot of things that today I wish I could have gotten but did not because they did not interest me at the time — many, many, many Convertibles, Dial-A-Matics etc. that at the time I did not consider at all collectible. Not to mention that I had absolutely nowhere to put them, nor the money to pay for them! Even though he wanted only $15-20 apeice for them, that was starting to quickly add up and I had to be very frugal and picky in what I took.
http://www.137.com/hoover
[I -FINALLY- found this story about the huge vacuum cleaner graveyard that I explored with Stan Kann. btw, this story appears on my "Hoover" page -- see link below.]
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One day I was looking at 'for-sale' ads in the Recycler, a local buy-and-sell newspaper in the Los Angeles area. This was back in the early 1990s, well before the Internet was what it is today. I saw an ad that really made me stop in my tracks:
“400 Vacuums, 400 Dollars” and then a phone number.
That's all it said. My interest highly piqued, I called the number. I found out that the ad had been placed by the son of a man who had had a Hoover dealership in the Glendale area for many years, and had retired and closed his shop about 25 years previously. When he closed his shop, he moved all his intentory to his house, storing it ... in his back yard!
The man had just recently died, and the son inherited the house. He wanted to renovate the house and grounds, and he wanted to get rid of all the vacuum cleaners. He finally was convinced when I told him that it would be unlikely to find any one person who would want them all, but I'd certainly be interested to see what he had and would take as many as I could.
I got directions to the house, which was in Eagle Rock, and made an appointment to come out there..
You just have to have seen the sight that greeted us when Stan Kann (whom I talked into coming along) and I walked into the enormous back yard of this man's home.
Envision a yard about the size of half a football field. In the yard were about a dozen huge mounds of STUFF covered with giant, heavy-duty blue vinyl tarps. The mounds varied in size but most were around 10-12 feet in diamater and from 8 to 10 feet high!!
Stan and I walked to the first pile and lifted the first tarp. Underneath was a sight that nearly defied description: A mountain of old vacuum cleaners, mostly upright Hoovers, none of them new. Most of them were old Hoovers from the 1930s through mid-1960s with a smattering of other machines as well.
We both gasped in shock and began digging through the pile. The cleaners' cords and handles were hopelessly entertwined with one another so pulling them apart was practically an exercise in futility. Finally, we decided the only way to do it would be to cut the cords some of the cords and pull the machines apart that way.
We spent two long days, from morning till night, laboriously digging through those dozen vacuum cleaner mountains.
Interestingly the vast majority of machines were uprights. There were no Filter Queens, Lewyts, etc., and no Hoover tanks or canisters. There were only a few old Electrolux XXXs that were in bad shape and not worth salvaging.
Stan was a bit disappointed that he really didn't find much of any interest to him, but I came home with quite a few treasures, some of which even Stan was amazed to see.
I found:
— A Kenmore Imperial, with the original bag, cord, handle grip and brush roll in incredible condition. When we came upon that Stan loudly declared, “Well, would you look at that! A Bug-Eye!” I had to “sssshhh” him a couple of times when we'd find something jaw-dropping ... I didn’t want the man to get any ideas about this stuff being a goldmine! (Most of it really was ruined.)
— An “America” straight-suction upright from around 1915.
— A Hoover Model 102 with the original cord and brush roll but lacking the bag.
— Several Hoovers ... Model 700, 725, 750, 825, 450, 28, etc., in varying states of completeness and condition.
— A Hoover Model 925 with (what I thought at the time was) the original bag, rubber handle grip, original Hoover plug, brush roll and in immaculate condition.
— A Hoover Model 475 also all original and in immaculate condition (the one featured here!).
— A Canadian Electrolux ZB88, the strange-looking maroon model that, to me, never having ever seen one before, looked like something from a parallel dimension!
— And quite a few other odds and ends of things, so many that I just can't recall them all. This included several boxes of upright brush rolls, including a number of the very early Hoover tufted-brush rolls for the pre 543 models.
Many of the machines, despite being out of doors, were in amazingly good condition. The man's son said that all that stuff had been out there the entire 25+ years since the store had been closed. The ones in the best condition were the ones in the middle areas of the piles. The ones nearest the top and bottom were rusted and corroded but the ones in-between were very well protected.
I hate to say how many hundreds and hundreds of machines we had to leave behind, that the man said he would have to send to the dump. (I was the only person who had responded to his ad.) There were just so many of them, and there were a lot of things that today I wish I could have gotten but did not because they did not interest me at the time — many, many, many Convertibles, Dial-A-Matics etc. that at the time I did not consider at all collectible. Not to mention that I had absolutely nowhere to put them, nor the money to pay for them! Even though he wanted only $15-20 apeice for them, that was starting to quickly add up and I had to be very frugal and picky in what I took.
http://www.137.com/hoover
cb123
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Jinkies,
wouldn't you like to stumble upon that warehouse!
wouldn't you like to stumble upon that warehouse!
cb123
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It's a graveyard dude.
It's supposed to be creepy, ZOOOINKS! When upon the midnight hour tolls...aloft velvet black wings the vacuum cleaners bones are fleshed and take their wicked flight into the blackness of their mother night...to feast they upon the innocence of the orphaned and lost. Shall any find refuge , nay , many shall seek it and not find it, for a panoply of fiendish horrors - the hoplite's of terror await to recompense their abusers...to be awarded their pound of grievous flesh upon whomsoever they might fall upon. I must now most solemnly warn you the reader, Beware of the vacuums which raise they forth upon the witching's dark hour...you must repay vengeance upon whomsoever is beheld among you, both far and wide whom defiles a vacuum, and perhaps the shadow of the curse will be dispelled from out of our midst and our firesides, or maybe not, so you had better watch out! What's that behind your chair...BOOO! Happy Halloween, it will be here soon enough.
It's supposed to be creepy, ZOOOINKS! When upon the midnight hour tolls...aloft velvet black wings the vacuum cleaners bones are fleshed and take their wicked flight into the blackness of their mother night...to feast they upon the innocence of the orphaned and lost. Shall any find refuge , nay , many shall seek it and not find it, for a panoply of fiendish horrors - the hoplite's of terror await to recompense their abusers...to be awarded their pound of grievous flesh upon whomsoever they might fall upon. I must now most solemnly warn you the reader, Beware of the vacuums which raise they forth upon the witching's dark hour...you must repay vengeance upon whomsoever is beheld among you, both far and wide whom defiles a vacuum, and perhaps the shadow of the curse will be dispelled from out of our midst and our firesides, or maybe not, so you had better watch out! What's that behind your chair...BOOO! Happy Halloween, it will be here soon enough.
cb123
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Calamity, all the humanity! It's as if the whole world has been turned upside down at the sight of that most dreadful pile. It's almost akin to seeing baby seals being stalked by blood drunk baseball-bat wielding dropouts. Light the torches - rally the peasants and start handing out the pitchforks! Oh, don't worry about it, what can you do. A most interesting photo in a sad way.
Too bad that isn't a pile of todays "plastivacs"!Thats where most of them belong!Saw some at the new WalMart.
