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Post by Farah on Feb 24, 2008 16:26:05 GMT -5
Did anyone remember this department store? I did I was really young did they sell any casablancas there? They did have a lot of ge vent fans that I liked I'm not sure if they sold hunter or not. And they were a couple of other brands of fans they sold, too.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2008 19:13:44 GMT -5
I've heard of Handy Andy but they didnt have it here.
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Post by Farah on Feb 24, 2008 19:26:43 GMT -5
Really? We had plenty of stores and I remember going into one of them and just look at the fan display it was my favorite place.
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Post by Brian P. on Feb 28, 2008 6:37:22 GMT -5
we used to have a Handy Andy in the Great Northern Shopping Center in North Olmsted, Ohio but then it changed to Home Depot in the mid 90's. Handy Andy and Builders Square always had the best selection of fans ever. I remembered seeing quite a few stencil blade fans, spinners, SMC fans, and plenty of Hunters and other old brands mentioned in this forum including Moss.
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Post by Farah on Feb 28, 2008 13:57:06 GMT -5
Yes that is so true. You could choose from any fans that you wanted. I really miss that store.
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Post by jeremy on Feb 28, 2008 14:33:18 GMT -5
i remember a hardware store called elkon's (they didn't sell any ceiling fans) but they have some vintage fans there like: 1 52" emerson (plastic emerson/NOT friction drive) 1 52" (i think plastic blades) emerson "blender" ceiling fan(all brown) 1 52" hunter original(2 speed) with regular arms(all white) and few more fans,but don't remember them others. but sadly elkons went out of buisness in early 90s and the vintage fans are gone.
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Post by Farah on Mar 1, 2008 15:39:51 GMT -5
wow really? If they were still open, would you get the fans?
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Post by jeremy on Mar 1, 2008 16:08:19 GMT -5
by the way,that "52 plastic emerson i talked about on my last post is ALL white....
farah,i was younger(like 15 or younger) at the time they went out of buisness,i probly would had got in trouble if i grabed them.
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Post by Farah on Mar 1, 2008 18:26:18 GMT -5
oh I see. But still I wished that you were able to get them.
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Post by jeremy on Mar 1, 2008 18:27:00 GMT -5
oh I see. But still I wished that you were able to get them. same here,i agree
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Post by Farah on Mar 1, 2008 23:10:08 GMT -5
Very ture indeed. Oh well.
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Post by JW on May 4, 2008 16:25:48 GMT -5
We had a Handy Dan, which may or may not be related (I know that one of the stores in that chain was a "Handy City".) They had a GIANT fan display, but I think it was mostly SMC. I only got to go in there once so I'm not exactly sure what they had, but I specifically remember SMC Park Avenues being sold there.
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Post by mossceilingfans on Sept 14, 2009 20:14:30 GMT -5
Handy Andy was owned and started by Ronald Rashkow ... Forrest City was, if I remember right, owned by Shottenstein's of Columbus Ohio - they also started odd lots .. Handy Andy was bought out by Scotty's Lumber (a FL based chain) and then the name disappeared.... Ronnie was very good friends with David Moss .. in fact Ronnie used to set David up in raquette ball games to get extra advertising dollars - despite our being really po'd at David over this, as David sucked at raquette ball !
Handy Dan was a seperate company.
We also sold all these companies.
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