Surviving Vintage Industrial Fan Spotted

[Duane B]

So I took a trip down Memory Lane recently. Up in Oxnard there was this barn market (called Donlon Farms back then) that we used to go to when I was a little kid. Back then I was fascinated by fans (I still am) and this place had box fans hung over the front doors to keep flies out. There was also a shutter vent fan over the doors off to one side. The box fans were Hunters with the metal blades, but I don't know the maker of the vent fan. The building was put up in 1970 and the fans were likely installed then.

I went back to this place recently, it's now a Mexican market. When I rolled up I still saw the shutter and wondered if that old fan unit was still there. And it was! It appears to have remained untouched.


The Hunter box fans are long gone, but the mount standoffs remain.

Here are some pictures -

The exterior shutter -
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Pictures of the fan -

[Duane B]

Here is the video -

[Duane B]

Here's a short video -