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Post by Matthew on Aug 25, 2004 13:07:14 GMT -5
  3-speed with reverse pull chain. Working. $25.00 + shipping. NO TRADES! |
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Post by Matthew on Aug 25, 2004 21:31:38 GMT -5
Today at work I was moving some rather heavy patio furniture when a memory came to mind. I've seen this fan before. Where was it? In an old Mom & Pop Bakery in downtown Naperville, IL. As a child I was down there at least once a week and we always stopped by to get a pastery of some sort (they had these yellow smilie face cookies...mmmm). Anywho... from as long as I can remember there were two of these. They were exactily the same as the one above, except they had a unique globe light. It was a clear, larger, rounded globe with diamonds cut in it. At the bottom was a small hole. They had the same bushy golden tassles. Everytime I saw them they were on a medium (or maybe high) speed so I never really got to look at the blades and irons. The store was located in this little street front mall thigy. There were several stores in it including a gift-type place that had two Homestead Wisperfans (52" 6-bladers), a Barbershop with a SMC emperoir, and a coffie shop that had a Casablanca Victorian (Inteli-Touch). So many years went on and the fans were still there. A year before we moved, The store that had the Victorian in it turned in to a Starbucks and the Victorian was gone. Then the exterior of the building got a facelift. The Homesteads were still there but the Bakery fans were gone! Replaced by those awful Hunter Infinitys, I was dissapointed. Somehow they installed the old globe light kits on the new fans. Also, just how they did it with the Tara at the lumberyard they kept the original canopies but gloped some white paint on them. About 5 years later I go and visit. The barbershop Emperoir was replaced by "Dans utter most favroite fan in the world :-P " a Black Menards "Turn of the Century" (5-blades, 4-spot light) and the The store with the Homesteads is now a Voice Stream store, Homesteads were gone. The bakery still had the Hunters in there but in pretty rough shape. The blades were warped and made the fans wobble. They replaced the light kits with those ugly Hunter "Low Profile" series. This spring I go back to find the entire strip mall thingy demolished to the ground. Now I found out what the bakery fan was!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2004 23:04:51 GMT -5
First of all, I'm interested in the Envirofan, I emailed you about it. What size is it?
Second of all, there's a mom and pop drugstore less than a mile from my parents house that has two of these. They're white and brass, no cane, and they have no switch housing, instead having an ornate cap simialr to the switch cap shown in the picture. They move a TON of air, I remember standing under them as a kid. They still use them every day, I have the number of the owner so I can offer to buy them, but I've never really gotten around to it. There's a picture in the Yahoo Group.
When Envirofan switched to the newer version of industrial, around 83, and started the connection with Banvil, this is what all the wood-bladed Envirofans turned into.
As for your story, it's a shame all the classic vintage fans were junked over time. I'm grateful for the opportunity to salvage any fan.
There are fans I hate more than the Black Menards TOC, including the white Menards TOC, and those little 6 blade huggers.
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Post by Matthew on Aug 25, 2004 23:06:44 GMT -5
First of all, I'm interested in the Envirofan, I emailed you about it. What size is it? There are fans I hate more than the Black Menards TOC, including the white Menards TOC, and those little 6 blade huggers. 50" I belive You don't like the red TOCs? They also came in pink, blue, green, grey, and Chrome |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2004 23:09:32 GMT -5
50" I belive You don't like the red TOCs? They also came in pink, blue, green, grey, and Chrome Actually, when I was about 4 years old, I very badly wanted a red fan. My dad got me the closest thing he could find, a blue Design House. Reason I ask about the size, those blades look huge to the motor, whereas on the white ones in the group the blades look in proportion. |
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Post by Matthew on Aug 25, 2004 23:16:25 GMT -5
Actually, when I was about 4 years old, I very badly wanted a red fan. My dad got me the closest thing he could find, a blue Design House. I wanted a Red fan when I was 4, but I got a 42" brown and brass Emerson TOC |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2004 23:19:27 GMT -5
I wanted a Red fan when I was 4, but I got a 42" brown and brass Emerson TOC I thought you got an 1895 series? Because the fan I wanted a few years later than the red fan was a brown and brass 42" 1895 series, sold at Menards. I wanted it because it reminded me of my Uncle Pat's Bananafan. |
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Post by Matthew on Aug 25, 2004 23:30:51 GMT -5
Maybe is was an 1895 series. We did get it at Menards. The day before X-mas eve.
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Post by Matthew on Aug 26, 2004 0:49:08 GMT -5
Envirofan sold to Dan! Thanks! ;D
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2004 1:01:57 GMT -5
Maybe is was an 1895 series. We did get it at Menards. The day before X-mas eve. Then it ws 1895. I dont recall if Menards sold any other Emersons, but Turn of the Century is a name Sears gave to many of their Emersons and Laskos. Menards had their own Turn of the Century . . . we're talking in circles. |
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