Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2011 0:43:49 GMT -5
If you're ever in the midwest and see one of these stores, stop. They ALL have really cool fan installs, and if you visit an old enough store, they have EXTREMELY cool vintage fans.
I wont give too much away, but here's what to look for:
Blains will usually have one or two rows of fans going down the center of the store. Depending on the store, there may be over one hundred fans. There also are usually more fans, often a completely different brand, over the auto repair area. They sell Hunter fans but rarely have a display.
Mills will have fans over the registers, and often in completely random (and hard to spot) locations elsewhere in the store. Walk the entire store and look carefully. They also usually have a big fan display of Hunter and Design House. Mills was the biggest seller of Design House in the midwest in the 80s. Habitats in less-metropolitan Wisconsin are usually slap full of Design House and I'd bet a Worlds Fair that ALL of them came from Mills.
Two of the coolest locations to check out: Waukesha, WI (Blains) and Fon Du Lac, WI (Mills).
I wont give too much away, but here's what to look for:
Blains will usually have one or two rows of fans going down the center of the store. Depending on the store, there may be over one hundred fans. There also are usually more fans, often a completely different brand, over the auto repair area. They sell Hunter fans but rarely have a display.
Mills will have fans over the registers, and often in completely random (and hard to spot) locations elsewhere in the store. Walk the entire store and look carefully. They also usually have a big fan display of Hunter and Design House. Mills was the biggest seller of Design House in the midwest in the 80s. Habitats in less-metropolitan Wisconsin are usually slap full of Design House and I'd bet a Worlds Fair that ALL of them came from Mills.
Two of the coolest locations to check out: Waukesha, WI (Blains) and Fon Du Lac, WI (Mills).
