Vintage Kenmore Stand Fan

[jetaction]

This was my Grandparents fan that I remember from being very small. 3 years ago I found it at my Uncle's estate sale, pretty beat up, broken wires and very dirty. Still very dirty but it has a new motor, rewired and runs like a champ. I am cleaning the grilles and will do an extensive detailing. So....fan experts.....I am assuming 50's? Wondering when it would have been sold...

 

[jetaction]

Another pic...

Man this thing has power.....

 

[spankomatic]

Cool!

 

[frontaloadotmy]

Don

The woodgrain seems sixties, but the knobs look right on the edge of 50's. I bet it weighs about 30#'s. Are the grilles
plastic or metal, or both?

 

[jetaction]

Grilles are metal and it weighs a ton

 

[swestoyz]

Don I'm very happy for you! I remember pulling the old motor and wiring from it and saying to you, "I don't think we can use this old motor" as the wires disintegrated with the slightest of touch.

Ben

 

[peterh770]

Those fans can out blow a tornado. I remember the window unit model in friends house in the very early 70's, but they were very industrial, utilitarian monsters, no frou-frou woodgrain, knobs and lights. That is a keeper! Congrats!

 

[randycmaynard]

Good grief....... hadn't seen a vintage window fan

in years! Great find. Had one when I was a child and still have the scar on my right hand ring finger where I stuck it in the fan and just about lost it! I think it was a Kenmore since just about everything else in the house was and was about the same color as this one only it was a lower end model but was multi-speed and reversable.

Really neat!

 

[joelippard]

That's a cool fan!

I have several vintage fans here, nothing like them. Mine are of a unique variety "The Lau Ultra Twenty" in beige and turquoise. I absolutely love them singing me to sleep at night.

 

[peterh770]

Wait! Are the blades transparent, or did you snap the pic while the fan was on? STRANGE!!!

 

[toggleswitch]

Methinks 'twas "on". The red indicator light is a clue!

Today's el-cheapos don't even have the venturi ring that surrounds the outer edge of the blades!

 

[tolivac]

Drather have that Kenmore fan than the Dyson one anyday!!!

 

[mrb627]

Air Conditioned Tent.

When we were kids, we would often ask to sleep downstairs. We would take our metal blade box fan and put it between two dining room chairs. Then we would put a bedsheet over the chairs and secure it with encyclopedias on the seats. The bigger the sheet, the better. Then fire up the fan. Boom! Instant tent/fort. Great fun and memories!

Malcolm

 

[petek]

No idea but I'd guess early 60's. It sure is nice though. What's the 3rd dial for.. I have a later type, not on a stand, with only 2 dials.. speed and thermostat.

 

[jetaction]

Third di is in and out, reversible motor

 

[petek]

Ahhh... probably Sears best too I'll bet

Somebody here ought to have an old Sears catalog... Chad...you have a lot of em..

 

[whirlcool]

I'm going to say that fan if from 1963-65. It seems to fit the Sears styling from then. Silvertone products of that era had knobs like that.

 

[jaytag]

Whole House Fan

I have the Kenmore Window Whole House Fan. Belt Drive and Reversable with Thermostat. LOVE IT.

Intersting how different life is today with Central Air Conditioning. I grew up in a ranch style with A Philco Wall Unit in the Living Room that had air swing, at night my Dad would aim the air down the hall to the bedrooms. Mine was at the end of the hall. I had a fan that blew the cool air into my room. I begged my parents for my own window unit. Finally in 1982 I got my sister's old JCPenny 7800 BTU the one with the plastic outside casing. It was like 7 yrs old but love sleeping under it.

Many friends grew up with No AC upstairs and would sleep downstairs where it was cool. My family had an old farmhouse with an ancient International Air Conditioner that was in the dining room installed in a transom above the door that went out to the porch. It was an amazing unit...cold.

Fun times.

 

[petek]

When we were kids back in the early 60s we didn't have an a/c either so we got to sleep downstairs in the rek room or else camping in the backyard. I was probably around 8 or 9 when the folks got a window a/c.. I remember going to Wilsons downtown with mom and dad looking at them, it was an Admiral.It only really cooled off the livingroom/kitchen area, really needed a second one but it was better than nothing at the time. They were fairly expensive so we'd have the box fan blowing air down the hall as well.