St Louis mini-gathering

[gansky1]

To end a great weekend of the vacuum cleaner collector's convention, four of us went over to Chris' house for a wonderful homemade dinner and an evening of relaxing fun. Chris and Dennis made a great dinner and wonderful cheesecake for dessert (it WAS excellent, Chris, no matter what you thought!) and then a little appliance play... Here is part of our group, outside on the patio.

 

[gansky1]

Here is Terry Lattz and Hans Craig

 

[gansky1]

Hans, Chris, me, Terry and Hans' partner Don

 

[gansky1]

After our delicious dinner and some appliance touring around the house, we loaded up the Westinghouse portable dishwasher circa 1954.

 

[gansky1]

Everything came out perfect, even the flatware was sparkling!

 

[gansky1]

We washed in Chris' A3MP washer - what a beautiful machine and Chris has done a wonderful job restoring it.

 

[gansky1]

Adding softener to the rinse cycle - this machine runs so quiet, the way an automatic washer should!

 

[gansky1]

Silly Hans!

 

[gansky1]

Chris displayed his collection of vacuums in honor of our attendance at the convention, these machines are also beautifully restored and work perfectly!

 

[gansky1]

Thank you again for everything, Chris, it was such fun to see you again, meet a few new friends and enjoy an evening with your amazing collection!

 

[christfr]

hugs back

let me just tell you that im sitting here reading this post with the biggest grin on my face..am so glad you guys were able to come by, but still in all the time flew like always, and thats always a sad thing when your havin fun..please come back any old time!! cant wait to get together again..and thaks for not posting the pics of terry or i gettin down and dirty with the dishwasher..well so to speak.. ha ha..big hugs to all you guys from old st lou.

 

[mayken4now]

Looks like a nice time was had by all. Thanks for sharing guys!

Steve

 

[peteski50]

gathering

I'm Happy you guys had such a great time. Thank you for posting the pictures.
Peter

 

[chachp]

Westinghouse Portable

Sure looks like you all had a nice time. I'd love to get my hands on one of those dishwashers. They just don't seem to come up where I live here in Arkansas.

 

[tlee618]

Thanks Greg for posting the great pictures, and a special thanks again to Chris for making them possible. Just looking at them brought a big smile to my face this morning as well. Terry

 

[petek]

Great pictures, I think I'm always surprised the most seeing such early dishwashers still working because they're more rare than washers especially any pre 1970 and certainly from the 50's

 

[polkanut]

What is the model name and/or no. of the Hoover in the middle? It is the same one my Grandma had.

 

[polkanut]

Also wondering how old it is.

 

[fnelson487]

That's A Hoover 28!

The popular priced model which ran from right after the war in 1945 until 1950 when the beautiful model 29 was introduced. They made tons of them. Hooverland Jeff could tell you how many.