Pedestal mounted ceiling fans? What are these?

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Of the new ones Jean posted, I like the Fanimations best.

Woolen Mill makes excellent reproductions.

None of these look anything like the ones I posted.

[Stephen]

At a Bud's Broiler here, they have two upside down GE vents on pedestal's with globe light kits. Then maybe a foot long marble table around the pole. You can tell, the fan was not added later on. Its clear that the pedestal is one piece. I haven't been in the buds in years, but you can see them from the window. So they didn't get rid of them.

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I've also seen fans mounted to pedestals inside tables, I dont remember where.

[Andrew G.]

Chuck E Cheese restaurants used to have numerous types of ceiling fans mounted on pedistals. When I was 6 or 7, I remember going to one which had two brown late 80s originals mounted on pedistals. When I went to one of my little sister's birthday partys at another one, I saw what appeared to be a black fan with builder vents, wood blades, and a K55. It also had a wide, somewhat flat switch housing.

[jeremy]

i never been to chuck e cheese restauants so i don't know what fans ours chuck e cheese here have.

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Showbiz Pizza.

[Ben C.]

I still don't understand how the fans are mounted. Basically it's a fan on an extension rod turned upside down, and a base is added? How can Originals be like that and not fall over from the torque? Also, why are the wires put through the switch cap?

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No. There's a big thick metal pole, like a lampmost, and it's mounted to the fan's switch housing. The wiring is run up this pole and connects in the switch housing, rather than running down the downrod and through the motor to connect in the switch housing.

[Ben C.]

Oh, so basically the fan looks right side up, but the pole is on the bottom. How would Originals stand up like this though, a good 40 lb. motor would certainly bend the shaft to the switch housing over time.

[Brian P.]

I live in Westlake Ohio and there is a Chuck E. Cheese in North Olmsted which is right next to Westlake. That place has 2 Pole mounted fans that have black motors, 4 redish brown blades with builder vents just like the ones Dan talked about. They both were always spinning at the same very slow pace and I always wondered what kind of fans they were and how they controlled the speeds.

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If anyone can get some pictures of pedestal mounted fans, that'd be great.

Still have no clue what these are.

[jonasclark]

I have a feeling these are those tiny GE 6-blade fans with the pizza slice-shaped blades. Look close - the blade shape is visible, as is that fan's distinctive motor housing. And I know there are other GE's of that type mounted this way - I have a photo of one in someone else's collection. And yes, Dan is correct: they're mounted through the switch housing. The Disney film "Newsies" has a bunch of these in a news office in one scene.

I'll have to visit more Cheddars'. The only one I've been inside has a bizarre modified Palmetto, which I've heard is in other locations of the chain - I believe it to be a product of Casablanca's pre-Fanimation "Custom Fan Dept."

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I dont recall any GE's with pizza slice blades. Are you thinking of Emersons? The 6 blade longnoses?

[jonasclark]

Emersons, yes, sorry. That's what I say these are.