Fans at school

[Fans]

Have any of you seen fans at your schools?

My elementary school was built in 1991 and I remember it had fans in the front office. The front desk/lobby and copier rooms had antique brass Hunter Summer Breezes. The side offices/principals rooms had light brass fans with GE vents and filigree sides dark blades. I remember the ones in the side offices were on quite a bit, but the Hunters were rarely o that I can remember though I wasn't in the office except for good things thankfully.

None of the other schools have had ceiling fans and they were both built before and after 1991.

[Sean B.]

Two Fasco Industrials per classroom at my high school. It burns me to see these fans go to such a waste... (the first generation Fasco Industrials)

[Andrew G.]

My high school has six dayton (marley/leading edge) industrials in the kitchen and there is a 56'' dayton/lasko on a thirty foot ceiling in each of the three choir rooms. I am going to attempt to get all of them.

[JW]

Are they being used? I'd think the purpose of this group would be to see as many vintage fans as possible actually being used... they don't do much good boxed up in someone's place!

One of the elementary schools in my home town had about eighteen 56" 3-blade Encon Crompton Greaves industrials in the cafeteria... they were wired in groups of 6 to solid state wall controls. I saw them turned on exactly ONCE. The elementary I went to from K-4 had two of the same fan, but wired individually to their boxes... when they were on the same speed, one of them went faster for some reason.

The private school I went to from 5-7 was LOADED with fans. It had brown 3-speed Old Jacksonvilles with the narrow vents in the older part of the building, and 4-blade Broan/Alaskas in the newer part of the building. One room had a 1-speed polished brass Old Jacksonville with narrow vents... it was taken down and replaced with a white 5-blade Craftmade (CXL maybe?) while I was there. In the library there was a Fasco World's Fair. The houses that were converted into classrooms had OLD 4-blade Craftmades in them... the new buildings and remaining houses got footprint vent builderfans in 1992.

The library at my high school had 4 white Litex builderfans.

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1. There was already a thread on this. See if you can continue an exisiting thread before starting a new one. I'm sure all the people that posted many details about their schools' fans hate to have to type it all over again. I'll try and resurface that old thread.

2. Post with your real name, please. I'm very tempted to delete any posts without an identifiable name. "Fans" is not appropriate.

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lik said:

Two Fasco Industrials per classroom at my high school. It burns me to see these fans go to such a waste... (the first generation Fasco Industrials)

1. Are they being used? Are they likely to be thrown out or torn down any time soon? If yes to #1 and no to #2, I dont see how they're going to waste.

2. Have we established which version of the Fasco industrial came first?

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Andrew said:

My high school has six dayton (marley/leading edge) industrials in the kitchen and there is a 56'' dayton/lasko on a thirty foot ceiling in each of the three choir rooms. I am going to attempt to get all of them.

The newer Daytons seem very common in schools, I've also seen some of the older version I like (i.e. my garage) and plenty of Carnarms, or whatever those newer industrials are called that look somewhat like the old Encon/Crompton-Greaves. I dont recall ever seeing a school with Dayton/Laskos although I've plenty of times thought they would be the perfect fan.

I've seen plenty of other cool examples, but I'll wait to post them until I see if I can find the older thread.

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JW said:

I'd think the purpose of this group would be to see as many vintage fans as possible actually being used... they don't do much good boxed up in someone's place!

Well, speaking as someone who has several fans boxed up in his place . . . I see the purpose as saving as many of these cool old fans as possible from untimely demise. Every day a building is torn down or house is remodeled and "that/those ugly old fan(s)" are sacrificed in the process. I'd much rather see a fan up and being used than boxed up, but at the same time I'd much rather see it boxed up than somewhere where it could risk being thrown away.

JW said:

The private school I went to from 5-7 was LOADED with fans. It had brown 3-speed Old Jacksonvilles with the narrow vents in the older part of the building, and 4-blade Broan/Alaskas in the newer part of the building. One room had a 1-speed polished brass Old Jacksonville with narrow vents... it was taken down and replaced with a white 5-blade Craftmade (CXL maybe?) while I was there. In the library there was a Fasco World's Fair.

Good Lord, are any of these fans still there? Especially the Fasco. I'd love them.

[Sean B.]

Dan said:

1. Are they being used? Are they likely to be thrown out or torn down any time soon? If yes to #1 and no to #2, I dont see how they're going to waste.

2. Have we established which version of the Fasco industrial came first?

You have not seen these fans and the abuse they go through. You wouldn't believe what idiots think you can throw a book into a ceiling fan and have it survive, which it did. Well no, you buy fans off of ebay so you would get a close idea, if not, more of one. They will be going down if I can make a good enough offer.

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lik said:

You have not seen these fans and the abuse they go through. You wouldn't believe what idiots think you can throw a book into a ceiling fan and have it survive, which it did. Well no, you buy fans off of ebay so you would get a close idea, if not, more of one. They will be going down if I can make a good enough offer.

You raise a good point. Kids are destructive to anything they find amusing and fans in schools do often take a great deal of abuse.

[Sean B.]

Dan said:

You raise a good point. Kids are destructive to anything they find amusing and fans in schools do often take a great deal of abuse.

Hey now, home made flame throwers are awesome! This is what I get for hangin out with my 23 year old cousin...

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lik said:

Hey now, home made flame throwers are awesome! This is what I get for hangin out with my 23 year old cousin...

No, this is what you get for being one of the destructive kids I mentioned in my previous post.

[Louis Weedman]

Three years ago, someone in my class threw a sandal into the classroom's HB Landmark, which was running at medium speed. It just about got ripped off the ceiling, too.

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Guest-Louis said:

Three years ago, someone in my class threw a sandal into the classroom's HB Landmark, which was running at medium speed. It just about got ripped off the ceiling, too.

My oil high school had industrials in the gyms, and we somehow always managed to damage them, even though they had cages around them. From basketballs to birdies they found their way into the fans. And then we complained when it got hot again.


There was also three 60", or larger (if they made a larger size, they certainly looked larger) Daytons in the swimming pool. One time one of the blades went flying off into the water. They took all the fans down at that point.

[John "Rockin" Reed]

There aren't too many ceiling fans where I currently attend college. There are 60" and 36" Dayton Industrials in the library and the theater on campus.

I know for a fact, that the 36" Daytons hanging in the library are from circa 1986, since that was when the library on campus was constructed