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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2006 4:49:15 GMT -5
I disagree that it looks just like the fan, but it is a very good drawing. This is exactly how I remembered the fan.
I'll wait for others to comment . . .
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Post by Louis on Jan 1, 2007 4:51:46 GMT -5
That's an awesome drawing! I have tons of ceiling fan drawings from my childhood buried away somewhere; I used to draw circuits with ceiling fans, switches, and receptacles. Sometimes I added in random solar panels here and there.
For some reason, the blade arms say Casablanca to me, but that's my opinion. Other than that, I think it looks very much like a Tara.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2007 13:10:04 GMT -5
They are Casablanca, I couldnt remember what sort of arms the Tara had so I simply drew the most generic design. To this day it bothers me that I didnt remember them.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2007 17:27:00 GMT -5
Thanks. What finish do you suppose that is? It appears it may have been chrome with brown accents. NO IDEA what the blades would have been.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2007 1:01:03 GMT -5
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Post by JW on Feb 5, 2007 23:45:58 GMT -5
Brown and chrome. I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2007 18:30:25 GMT -5
I would assume they also did brown/PB in this style. Interesting because was copying the Casablanca Zephyr, which had brown/brass with a polished bottom plate and the rest of the fan brown (like a Hunter Original). The brown/AB Taras had the brass sideband, switch cap, and brackets. The white/brass Taras had PB or AB sideband but always had brass brackets. Now with this style, the sideband is what's brown. So what fans were they copying, or were these original finish ideas? Keep in mind most Taras were from 79-81 and the later ones had round tags.
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Post by Ben C. on Feb 7, 2007 15:56:58 GMT -5
Here it is. I also added pictures to Tara Quest, the careful observer will note those pictures are different. Um, the pictures are shot at different angles?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2007 14:26:42 GMT -5
Actually the angles are the same. One set was taken with the flash on, one with the flash off, so the colors are a little different.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2007 20:35:16 GMT -5
I visited the Tara lumberyard recently (actually it's called UBC, and was Fish Building Supply when the fan was there). They've been doing a lot of remodeling.
Gone are the registers at the front of the store. You now check out at the information counter in the center. I suspect most of their customers are builders and contractors with accounts.
Gone is the balcony over the front of the store. They just completely ripped it down, I'm not sure why, the employees I asked didnt either. They left the fluorescent shoplights and Design House Huggers that were mounted over the desks on that balcony.
Gone is the retail space under the left balcony. It is all made into offices that look like houses from the outside.
The sales floor has been expanded back to reach all the way to the back of the building. There's not much of a stockroom left. When the Tara was there it only went to the second row of columns (see pictures). Now, where the back wall is in the pictures, it's a third row of columns.
In front of the stairwell, there is now a second information desk where grandmas hand out hard candy and answer phones.
The stairwell below the fan has been completely renovated, with new rubber cream colored stairs and modern bannisters.
The fan is still there. I'm sure that the original Tara fan would still be there if it hadnt broken (flywheel, probably).
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Also, I dont know if I ever mentioned it, but this lumberyard at one time had a second location which was much larger. In the case of the Tara location, the balcony went over the front of the store (over the cash registers) and along the left wall of the store, and had two stairwells, one in front next to the register, the other center in the left wall with the Tara over it. In the other location, the balcony covered all four walls of the store. The front and and right walls were both offices, and the left wall was MUCH larger than the left wall Tara balcony, and had a full selection of furniture for sale. But the full length of the back balcony was the ceiling fan display!
The stairwells were in the front of the store near the registers, and in the very center of the back balcony. The back stairwell was very dark, with wood paneling, it came up in the center of the fan display, and over it was a 6 blade Design House on a long downrod with a 5 light beveled glass light kit. All the fans surrounding it were lit and running, filling the full width of the balcony, the front row of fans right over the railing on the edge. On the far left end of the balcony there was a separate cloud of fans, not energized. One of these was a white TPI/Carroway industrial and it was the first time I had ever seen an industrial for sale in a store. The cloud cornered the left balcony with all the furniture, in the center of the furniture, where the Tara would have been had this balcony been like the other store, was a 52" AB/stencil Design House hugger, the same fan my grandma had in her dining room. One time I was there with my dad and he turned it on for me.
Some of the offices on the right balcony, which you had to walk past if you went up the front stairwell, had fans installed. Most of these were 42" 6 blade Design Houses.
I went to look for this second location a few years ago, it had been turned into a factory of some sort. None of the balconies or fans remained.
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Post by kelly on Dec 23, 2007 3:29:53 GMT -5
looking good on that brown and chrome tara fan dan it looks really good now all u need r the blade irons and blades hopefully i can find u some to go with it
kelly
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2007 3:32:44 GMT -5
Thanks Kelly.
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Post by Kevin on Dec 23, 2007 13:16:31 GMT -5
Dan is this the fan you realy love?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2007 14:03:32 GMT -5
One of many.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2008 0:36:40 GMT -5
I have two new finishes of Taras, thanks to Jeremy: Unforunately the one on the left was damaged in shipping. These are also the first Taras to be pictured on ToViewFans. I've started putting pretty much all fans on ToView.
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