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I was asked by the VCCC President, Morgan Frazer, to post this to the AW site. It has appeared in all the forums at VacuumLand.org. There is a change of times and update for Thursday, 9/13. Due to a computer problem with the Regency Lodge, our registration times and entrance to our meeting...

In case anyone forgot and maybe I missed the thread, but by the way, our own Terry Lattz celebrated a birthday on July 1st. So, Terry, hope you had a great day and hope your 4th is even more fabulous! Terry is also know by his user name of "Tlee", (or something like that) and with us VCCC folk...

Since Vacuumland is temporarily on hiatus, if Robert doesn't mind, we want to share our fun here where we started before Vacuumland. (Robert, can we shack up here again for a while?) Anyway, Concetta Slattz, (aka Terry Lattz), flew into Charlotte yesterday to get the ball rolling. We are...

I'm one of the vacuum folks who used to post here until Robert designed our site. I am hoping someone can help me and my spouse identify this range. I think it is a Roper but would like confirmation. This picture was taken in June of 1972 in Cicero, IL. The lady is my "mother-in-law", and the...

I just got back from the LCCI, (Lambda Car Club International), Grand Invitational in New Hope, PA. We had over 250 attendees and about 180 autos for show. I'm going to pick a few autos I found interesting and post the pics. Hope you enjoy! Starting with a 1960 Imperial LeBaron. Won 2nd place...

Finally, after a lot of work, my Air-Way 35, "The Chief", got her new outer cloth bag and it looks great. I bought the bag on ebay last year. It was designed to fit the earlier straight suction models and the flat metal rods had a totally different fitting at the machine end and the handle end...

Please read thread 6988. Our own Terry Lattz's birthday was July 1st. Please help me in wishing him a happy birthday!!

One of my flying partners, Nancy, gave me this Kirby G3 last week and after a little clean up here it is. I knew Nancy's mother, a fastidious woman and the original owner, who took very good care of it. She passed away last year and Nancy finally was ready to let it go. It is complete with hose...

At the mini-meet and Gala at Fred's a week ago, I shipped a near mint Electrolux Automatic E that had been adapted to use a power nozzle, several days in advance so we could play with one of my vacs. Well, long story short, Fred and I have agreed to trade that E for his Renny that he got as a...

I'm thinning the herd and before these go on ebay I'm offering them here. I know there are a lot VCCC members and other vac enthusiasts. I can probably do better on ebay for profit, but those of us that have been collecting for a long time try to keep prices down by offering first through the...

Love them or hate them, (and there are people that do!), they sure are pretty after Kirby does their magic on them. In the cleaning competition that the VCCC does, a Kirby has never beaten a Hoover that I am aware of. They compete in different categories, (revolving brush with beater bar and...

The 510 arrived yesterday from the Kirby rebuild folks. It is for a customer of mine but I thought some of you would like to see it. I wish I had some before pics! You will note that the trim is incorrect. Kirby no longer stocks grey or red trim, all they use is the tan. The customer is not a...

I know this is a web site and forum about appliances but occastionally other things do pop up and I recently made some great additions to my vintage Stewardess uniforms that I want to share. There isn't a "Vintage Stewardess Collectors" web site with a forum that I am aware of so I am grateful...

I put this sweatshirt in my Lady Kenmore dryer on "fluff" and look what happened.............!! This the before picture.

Well, Santa has arrived early! In the form of Fred Nelson that is. Last week he sent me a Kirby Dual 80 that had been rebuilt at Kirby complete with hose and attachments. Now my Dual 50 has been reunited with her long lost, younger sister and they can vacuum, buff, spray, demoth/crystallate...

Well, it seems I have too much time on my hands again and I decided it was time to play with one of my newly acquired Lux 60's. They were always good performers but you could not really clean out deep down dirt in carpets with any pile. So, check out this picture and you will see that I have...

I spent the most of the weekend in Milwaukee with several vac and appliance friends celebrating Tania Voigt's 50th birthday. On Saturday night, a small group of us went to visit Stan Hagan just down the street and he ran his vintage gas/oil 2 cycle Maytag, (model 3032?), for us complete with...

Okay, I have a question and if has been discussed here before, sorry! I only started posting recently. I always wash t-shirts with designs and logos inside out as I was told it helps preserve the colors and design itself. Any truth to this? I don't even remember who told me this or when, but I...

I was cleaning out some stuff and found this very cool vintage Air-Way and since so many here are into vintage vacs thought you might find it interesting. It is dated March 1932 from Good Housekeeping magazine. I forgot that Air-Way was also in Toronto and London. How the mighty have fallen!

Not only do these Kiby's live together but here you see the girls getting ready for a Mahjong game since the weather is somewhat inclement. These old gals work well together or independently. Charlie