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Post by Ben C. on Oct 25, 2006 15:54:38 GMT -5
You can't see the fans in them. They are deep in the housing, next to the motor. I have seen huge ones in an 8' ceiling. really old and rusty.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2006 15:55:48 GMT -5
Those big vents were very common in old buildings, the only ones I remember very clearly . . .
There was a strip mall about a mile from my parents house. It had a Kohl's Grocery Store, a Walgreens, a video store, a Hallmark, a Toys-r-Us, a fabric store, and lots of other smaller stores. All of the larger stores had very high dropped ceilings with the long, exposed fluorescent lights (not the cool vintage ones, just plain) and huge, huge HUGE grey noisy fans. The ceiling tiles were always rotted near the vents and I would wonder if they would fall.
No fans in the stores with the vents. The Hallmark had two Envirofans, as did all Hallmarks at that time. The video store had a 42" Dayton Lasko over the front counter and some other metal bladed switch housing fan over the back counter. The Walgreens did have some cool vintage fluorescent lights, and the Kohls had these very hugly hanging Mercury lights painted green, red, and yellow. They added Dayton-Marleys to the Toys-r-Us before demolishing the entire strip mall. It is now a Home Depot.
I do miss the old grocery stores of the 70s and 80s, they were loaded with fans, usual light fixtures, the big vents, unusual ceiling tiles, etc. Fan's I've seen in old grocery stores:
Envirofans Blenderfans Carroways Plastic Emersons Casablancas Con-Techs (whatever they were called in the 80s, something different, but the industrials with the 3 rings on the bottom) Nutones Homesteads Fascos Mosses Originals
Sometimes they'd just have 1 or 2 fans in the front, over the checkouts. Sometimes there'd be rows all over the store. Sometimes just randomly placed fans, like over the bakery and deli. I love it when a store has a great many fans, almost too many so they're rather close. I also love it when there's just one or two covering a large area . . . like, what were they thinking?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2006 15:58:41 GMT -5
I have seen some smaller of those vents with the fans on the outside, you could actually see the blades.
And Andrew, I remember KMarts with them too.
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Post by Ben C. on Oct 25, 2006 16:02:59 GMT -5
The only store left around here that still have a lot of ceiling fans is the Toys r us. Just plain white industrials throughout the store, on all day, some with balloons stuck in them.
Another store is the Big Lots, formerly Shaw's, and Edwards, used to have two industrials over the fresh produce section, 3 by the registers, and 2 on 6' to 8' downrods by the main entrance. Now, the Big Lots only have the ones by the entrance left. Inside the store, I see where the outlets are for the replaced fans. THe two by the entrance are different though. It has always intrigued me.
The bowling alley right by it has these industrial fans that have 4 metal blades, upper and lower canopies, and this switch housing that shows the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4. They removed the pull chains from them though.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2006 16:06:01 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2006 16:15:09 GMT -5
yeah the only stores i can recall that have those big vents are the old kmarts around here. i know this might be kind of wierd but i always liked the smell inside old kmarts and grocerie stores too. im wierd i know
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2006 16:19:29 GMT -5
Yes, yes you are.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2006 16:24:43 GMT -5
lol thought so
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Post by Ben C. on Oct 25, 2006 16:40:21 GMT -5
I'm glad you like them Dan, there are two at this garage down this street near me. They are still in use, been there as look as I was alive, used everyday in the summer.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2006 17:10:10 GMT -5
See if you can get them for me Especially the 56" ones, I dont like the 42" ones as much.
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Post by Fanman on Oct 25, 2006 17:28:06 GMT -5
Come to think of it, our Kmart, which was built in 1991 (plain modern style store) has big square vents in the ceiling and if you looked close enough, you could see a big fan up in there. They were always off. I figure that they run them at night to ventilate the building.
The only big round vents I've seen were for A/C. Also, there is an old Food Lion (also built in 1991) that had smaller A/C vents that looked like the turbine blades on a jet! There were 2 different kinds, and I always thought they were fans lol. Apparently, they weren't meant to spin, but to throw the air out in different directions.
I've seen 2 grocery store companies with ceiling fans. Winn Dixie has white industrials over the bakeries and one from the late 70s had stained glass lamps and some kind of AB fans in the deli/bakery. Kash N Karry's from the 80s had 4 blade brass and white Hunter Summer Breezes in the bakeries at both stores I've been to, before they remodeled.
There aren't really any old stores around here from before the 70s. Dan, that mall would depress me! I think the coolest fan layout in a store is when just one corner or area would have a fan, especially when there is no reason to have a fan there ie, over shelves, etc.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2006 17:33:23 GMT -5
Yeah, I never cared for that strip mall it was pretty gloomy. Whatever store my mom was in I would ask if I could go to the video store or the Hallmark, to look at the ceiling fans.
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Post by Christian C. on Oct 25, 2006 19:21:21 GMT -5
ive seen winn-dixies with hunters. one near me used to have 2 emerson 1895's over the deli/bakery and 2 3 speed hunter originals over the florist section. ive seen harris teeters with industs. possibly dayton-marleys.
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Post by Adam D. on Oct 25, 2006 20:15:57 GMT -5
I'm trying to remember all the stores around here that had those vents..
Woolworth's Kmart Goodwill that was recently torn down
I believe thats all, or at lease that I could think of. I don't think theres any stores around here that do have them.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2006 20:22:31 GMT -5
Yeah i think you live by a kmart dont you adam? i know theres one on federal hwy in north boyton or something like that. the one down here by me still has them too, ive always liked those big vents too and the sound of the air rushing out of them.
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