charles~richard
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There was just a 5-minute (or so) segment about vacuum cleaners on Good Morning America. I wish I had known it was coming up; I would have taped it.
It started out with some very cool vintage footage including a great color commercial for the Lewyt, and then some other old footage of ladies vacuuming. There was a brief glimpse of a metal upholstery nozzle attached to a blue and gray woven hose. It was really quick - too fast to tell what it was but I guess it was probably the Lewyt again.
One of the show's hosts (don't know the names as I don't usually watch this show -- am not generally up this early since I am such a night owl) talked about how much different "modern vacuums" are.
Then they went to a lady ("regular housewife" type) who claims to be notorious for abusing vacuums. She said she has had six vacuums in two years. She was talking about how she wished there was a more durable vacuum that could stand up to her very demanding household. (Gee Fred, maybe someone should send her an Electrolux G!!)
The the host and the lady went "head to head" in a competition with two bagless machines, the Dyson Animal and the Hoover Wind Tunnel. The two machines compared pretty much equally in terms of performance (and both made a frightful racket), but the host noted that the Dyson costs about a hundred bucks more. Also, the Dyson got choked up when trying to sweep up Kix cereal and the lady had to stop the machine [whereas the Hoover did not]. You could hear all sorts of awful grinding and chewing sounds!
It was a very interesting segment. Hope someone out there taped it so they can post it here!
It started out with some very cool vintage footage including a great color commercial for the Lewyt, and then some other old footage of ladies vacuuming. There was a brief glimpse of a metal upholstery nozzle attached to a blue and gray woven hose. It was really quick - too fast to tell what it was but I guess it was probably the Lewyt again.
One of the show's hosts (don't know the names as I don't usually watch this show -- am not generally up this early since I am such a night owl) talked about how much different "modern vacuums" are.
Then they went to a lady ("regular housewife" type) who claims to be notorious for abusing vacuums. She said she has had six vacuums in two years. She was talking about how she wished there was a more durable vacuum that could stand up to her very demanding household. (Gee Fred, maybe someone should send her an Electrolux G!!)
The the host and the lady went "head to head" in a competition with two bagless machines, the Dyson Animal and the Hoover Wind Tunnel. The two machines compared pretty much equally in terms of performance (and both made a frightful racket), but the host noted that the Dyson costs about a hundred bucks more. Also, the Dyson got choked up when trying to sweep up Kix cereal and the lady had to stop the machine [whereas the Hoover did not]. You could hear all sorts of awful grinding and chewing sounds!
It was a very interesting segment. Hope someone out there taped it so they can post it here!
