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Boy oh Boy! I made it easily to Youngstown and O'Conners Vacuums. My Premiere brushroll will be snail-mailed to me in a week, Don & I had a great visit and he sent me to the basement to scour the shelves.


Davy found another Grail Vac and it's getting spa-ed tonight.


5:15 and I'm in my Canton Knight's Inn. Off to Denny's for dinner, to Target for bojak Mr Erasers, then return to photo, clean and post...


 


Lucky Davy
 
Doing a much better job of staying current than on the 22 da

Stayed overnight in a Clearfield, PA Rodeway Inn.


left this morning after breakfast of Steak n Eggs toward the Ohio border.


Along the way detoured down twisty 2-lanes to Kittaning and on to Butler. Actually about 3 miles east of Butler where my especially good red-headed buddy Farmer Carl lives. Carl ain't a farmer tho, he works in a plant that builds industrial transformers.


 


I had several phone messages and emails out to Carl but haven't heard a thing yet. Nonetheless, as I may not see him this trip I did want to drop off a Christmas card so went to where his country house is and left it in the mailbox.


 


This is Carl's house, much much bigger and taller inside than it looks - check the height of the front door transom and the size of the chairs. The floors are level with the door. Carl is 6'4" feet of furry red German bear. :-)

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Again, I was not expected and was welcomed with open arms when I introduced my 'serious vac collector' self.


 


Don is a bit hard of hearing so the other man - his son? - took me out back to the shop to introduce me.


O'Connor's was started by Don's father in 1931 I recall and the present building was purchased in 1944.

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Don & I had a terrific chat. The impetus reason I went here is because of all the discussion about re-bristling brushrolls.


I brought along the brushroll from my Premier and showed it to him.


Don said, no problem, take a few days and I'll mail it USPS to Canada for you. Yippee.


 

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Don's knees not being what they used to be he had this handsome man take me downstairs.


"Anything you see that you like or need, bring 'em up and I'll give ya a deal"


 


I had no idea what I might find...

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vintage NOS paper bags.


I snagged a brand new old stock, never installed and still sealed in the plastic with instruction sheet burgundy GE upright cloth bag.


And a 4- pack of GE Roll-Easy bags for the graphics.

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The man plucking out the GE bag. He'd heard me discussing upstairs and said - 'this has been down here for decades. No one wanted one until now.'

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