What was you parents first vacuum!????

[timborow]

My parents married in 1966. They had some kind of Hoover stick vacuum. It was blue. I barely remember her using it, but I do remember a distinct smell and sound from it. In about 1973, my grandmother gave my mom her tan GE swivel top and blue Eureka upright when she got a new Hoover. I am not very good at model numbers, so does anyone know what kind of blue Hoover stick vacuum that could have been?
Tim

 

[countryguy]

Henry200,


 


Exactly!  And there would be soot everywhere from when my grandfather dismantled the stove pipes and before he vacuumed them out.  I remember him doing it once without telling my grandmother that he was going to do it.  Normally she would have covered everything up in the vicinity to protect it from getting covered with the soot.  She was so angry when she came home and saw what he was doing.  Soot is not easy to clean up. 


 


Gary

 

[jfalberti]

My Mom had

a Kenmore canister. I remember it very well. I used to sit on top of it and ride it when she vacuumed. One day the vacuum was out, and I picked up the wands and pretended to be vacuuming. She saw me and snuck up behind me and turned it on. It scared the living hell out of me! Shortly after that my Mom died in a car accident, and my Dad decided to relocate us to Florida, where my Aunt and cousin had moved to. I remember the day the movers came, I pulled the vacuum out of the closet and sat there, refusing to move until I saw them pack it up and put it on the truck. This picture is not the exact model my Mom had, but it is very close. I don't use it for cleaning, but like to just plug it in sometimes and run it, just to hear the sound.

 

[1066hoovers]

Hoover Senior Model 638

My parents set up home in 1959. My mum didnt like the new Hoover Deluxe Model 652 because it was pink so they bought one of the late blue model 638s which had just come to the end of its production run. Great machine - used to Hoover with it quite a lot. I remember turning it over with my dad and freeing the agitator from string or whatever had got stuck in it from over entheusiastic Hoovering! They used it up until the 1980s.

 

[kenkart]

Re Blue Hoover Stick....

Probably would have been a Lark, They brought the name back in the early 60s and used it on a quick broom type thing.

 

[portable]

<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Joe - That's a very sweet story about your Mom and the Kenmore.</span>


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<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Jonathan - Did those 638's have a shake-out bag, or were they Type C paper bag outfitted? I can't remember what they did in England....</span>


<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Here's an ad I have from long ago. I don't remember where I got it.....It makes reference to a "Disposall" bag. Was that like our Handi-Sac?</span>


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[pinkge]

First vac...

My parents first vac was a GE deluxe upright,with a box of attachments second hand.This was 1950.Mom said,her purchase was because the sellers were transfering to a job over sea's and they could not afford the cost of a new vac.They used it until my mom cut out a picture of a new Hoover 63 and pinned to the cork board in the kitchen.Which,one day my mom and I drove to town in our 1951 Studebaker Landcruiser to Reifer's and purchased the Hoover 63,attachments.I remember the salesmen assembling it and placing it in the trunk of our car.Mom,had the Hoover until they moved to Tucson.My grannie had a Hoover 27,my aunt a 634.Now I have the 634.Today,mom,has a Hoover upright and canister.

 

[williamr1248]

what was your parents first vacuum???

They bought a Air-Way 66 in early 50's. Used it until 1963 when she bought a new Hoover Convertible. They didn't like the Hoover and traded it in on new Air-Way 88 in 1965. Still using the Air-Way 88 46 years later. I still have the old Air-Way 66 and it works fine.

 

[indyhoover]

My parent's first vacuum....

was a Hoover Model 60 which I barely remember, but I do recall I was frightened by it. My mom had gotten it from my Grandma after my great-grandma had died and left my Grandma her Hoover Model 28. The Model 60 didn't last too long after that because my mom was banging the dust out of the cloth bag against the brick and smashed and broke the bag collar (oops). The Model 60, unceremoniously dipatched to Good Will, was replaced by a Bissel stick broom and a Eureka Princess canister, and then eventually by a Hoover 719.

 

[frkirby560]

My parent's first vacuum was a Hoover 62 with all the attachments. I remember it perfectly. We had it till we got a Hoover Convertible Model 69 with deluxe attachment set in 1965.

 

[parunner58]

My parents married in Oct 1956. The first vacuum was a Westinghouse. I remember plying with it when we lived in Kentucky. We had it until 1967 when my mom got a Blue Hoover convertible, that was replaced in 1972 with an Airway Sanitizor 88 mark II.

 

[briankirbyclass]

My parents married in 1963,first living in a small upstairs apartment. Their very first vacuum was a blue Eureka stick vac. When they moved into a larger house in the late 60s, they bought a Hoover Connie (dust blower),,dont know what model number, but it was yellow and dark tan or taupe?,,had the red Hoover logo underneath the hose inlet.
In 1972 they built a new home with wall to wall plush blue and green sculptured shag.
By this time i was vacuum crazy and dreamed of having a Kirby Classic, or Central Vac!
Mom then purposely and with intent went WITHOUT ME (knowing how much i wanted to go) to buy a new Hoover Dialamatic Powerdrive at KMart,,dont know what the model # was, but it was cream and tan colored,,with the headlight.(this is still a sore subject between us to this day)
The DAM proved to be nothing but trouble, and ended up catching fire and burning a hole in the shag,,right in the middle of the living room. ( i couldnt help but snicker a little over that one!)
This was about 1980. (Which by then it was my job to do all of the vacuuming, and had been for several years).
I was working and had my own money by this time, and traded the DAM for a used Rainbow D2 with the Eureka style PN. And then traded the Rainbow for a used red Kirby Classic 3 a few yrs later. (was testing and trying to find out which one i liked best)
After i left home,
They traded the Kirby for an Electrolux upright Discovery 3 (tan model) in 1988,,and then when it went kablooey in around 2000, Dad bought a Hoover Windtunnel power drive that they are still using. Tried talking them into a Kirby again but they hated having to take the head off for attachment use,,ect. Oh well!

Thank God for my dear Grandma and her Kirby D50 and new Electrolux Golden Jubilee, that i loved! One of the most exciting times in my whole life was when Grandma bought that new Golden J. She knew it would make me so happy.
Something Mom would NEVER have done!

(My mother has always dismissed my vacuum obsession as completly rediculous and worthless. She thinks vacuum cleaners are nothing more than GLORIFIED TRASH CANS, and could never understand why i would care so much about something so discustingly rediculous. HA,wasnt easy living with her!)

 

[briankirbyclass]

A fvaorite Aunt and Uncle got a GE Swivel Top (light brown and cream colored) as a wedding present in 1957. It is STILL going strong to this day. They have had a new hose and attachments over the years, and she still uses it for all the above the floor cleaning.
She uses a Hoover Convertible (not sure of the model #),for her carpet, from about 1976-77,,its yellow with the handle grip and has a striped bag,,still going strong,,has had new brush strips and of course a new belt and bag once in awhile,,she still uses it regularly!

 

[kenkart]

Brian....

I know just how you feel, My mom would not buy the Super J that I begged her to in 78, instead she bought a Celebrity 2 Powermatic, which cleaned well, but was definately NOT an Electrolux!

 

[countryguy]

Would anyone have any idea as to the make (or even pics) of the vacuum I describe in my post (#133264) above?  I've yet to come across anything that looks like it.


 


Thanks,


Gary

 

[1066hoovers]

Hi John

The 638 was the first Senior cleaner to have the throwaway paper bag, known in the UK as the Disposall bag (dont think that really caught on though). Your advert reminded me - the cleaning tools, complete with double stretch blue hose, were kept in a wooden cupboard (made by my dad) at the bottom of the stairs. I used to enjoy cleaning the stairs with them although it never stretched as much as in the ad - loved all the different attachments!
Here is a photo of it!

 

[henry200]

re: reply 53

Gary, as I was reading your description of that vacuum I was sure I've seen a pic of it, or something very similar in the last couple months here.  Now, tracking down that post where I saw the pic could be quite a scavenger hunt!  I sure hope some others find your question and lend a hand in the search.   It's going to drive me crazy until I find it.


 


Neil

 

[vacbear58]

This is mine

My parents were married in June 1949, but it was not until 1957 that they got their first cleaner, when my mother was pregnat with me!

It is a Bylock Electromaid, and it lasted until 1968. This is very much a BOL machine, earlier Bylock cleaners were based on Apex models. It took me quite a long while to find this one, so now very glad to have it

Al

 

[vacman117]

Well,

I said what my parents had before they met each other. Obviously, there would have been a time when they had the two vacuums in the house, but I'm guessing that wasn't very long. The first vacuum they bought together, was a Dirt Devil Deluxe. It was a Christmas present for my mom, which would have been in 1997. They got married in 1995, and my mom used her Eureka ESP until then. Think of that MAJOR change! Going from a direct air cleaner with no attachments, to a clean air vacuum, with onboard tools and much more suction! That Dirt Devil went through a move, so all of the attachments were lost. It was replaced around 2000 or 2001 with a Fantom Thunder.
Chase

 

[briankirbyclass]

Kenkart, i know what you mean! you were lucky to have had that Celeb 2, I could only DREAM of having a vac like that with a PN! ( I HATED that Connie and that DAM powerdrive with a passion) I would have been thrilled with a Powermatic!

I still have Grandma's 1974 Golden J,,its one of my prized possessions. The motor is a little tired now,,but still fires right up!

To this day my mother says a vacuum cleaner is nothing more than a glorified trash can. HAHA (there are very few things we agree on)
She makes my Dad do all the vacuuming.