Non-Residential Weird Installs?

[fancollector12]

So not including residential settings, where was the weirdest place you've ever seen a CF installed, and what kind of CF was installed? Here's my list:

-A local pizza place had a single PB SMC DC-52 (Park Avenue III) installed in a random corner of it. A blade and blade bracket recently broke off of the fan, so it may have been replaced.

-The Ruby Tuesday's near me had a single gloss black 90s Emerson Designer installed in the wood-and-glass enclosed bar. It had an AB 4-light fitter on it. It was removed recently when the place was converted to a Marlin and Ray's. Inside the restaurant, there used to be a bunch of PB 90s Emerson Designers, however, they got removed in a 2004 remodel. In their place in what is now Marlin and Ray's, there hang some bronze-colored Minka Aire Rainman fans.

-My local Chili's had a single PB Litex-Ellington FPV 5B 52" Builder that was installed in the middle of the seating waiting area as you first entered. The fan was removed, along with a bunch of other of the same type of fans, in a 2004 or 2005 remodel.

-The local Uno Chicago Grill had a 4B black Hunter Classic Original over its seating waiting area. There were also a bunch of black 5B Hunter Classic Originals scattered throughout the restaurant. There were some 4B Hunter Classic Originals in the bar, and 2 Weathered Brick Hunter Sea Airs outdoors. When the place became a Famous Dave's, all fans were removed, except for the ones in the bar and outdoors, though the ones outdoors were replaced by some kind of black-colored outdoor fans.

-My local Super Fresh had 2 rows of 5 (10 fans total) white Hunter 5B Classic Originals over the checkouts on short down rods. Over the salad bar, there hung 2 5B white Hunter Classic Originals on 72" down rods, with their pull chains almost barely touching the top of the salad bar. Said fans were removed when the place turned into an independent grocery store. (I tried to get them, but failed in my attempt to do so).

-A bowling alley arcade had 2 Progress Lighting 36" white fans with stencil blades from the late 80s or early 90s, spread far apart from each other. They also had white with stencil blade NuTone Verandahs over the lanes. The NuTones were replaced by white HB Farmingtons in 2010. Not sure if the Progresses remain or not. There is a single white HB 42" Gazebo hanging in the canopy to the entrance of the bowling alley's restaurant.

-An ex Saturn dealership had a bunch of gloss white Hunter Infinities from 1995 on long down rods spread out in random places throughout the showroom. The place turned into an Infiniti dealership. The fans were removed, and my dad happened to be helping with the demolition, and he got the fans for me, I have all of them (: There were also a bunch of white 36" Dayton/Marley Industrials spread throughout the service garage, all of those fans still remain in the Infiniti dealership, yet one that didn't work was removed and given to me.

-A Chevy dealership in my area had 2 white 36" Dayton/Lasko Industrials on long down rods installed in the showroom randomly. Said fans were removed when the dealership was recently remodeled.

-The parts counter at a local Cadillac dealership has several mid to late 90s HB Littletons without lights spread randomly in the area behind the counter.

-TGI Friday's always had a single dark-colored Hunter 5B Classic Original (60") or Casablanca Four Seasons II or Delta II 5B in black on a long down rod in the entrance. Said fans were removed in remodels, and there were several matching fans throughout the restaurants themselves, which were also removed in remodels.

-A local college has 2 early brown Fasco (48"?) Heat Cyclers installed in the rec gym on very, very short down rods.

I'll add more as I think of them.

[Deleted]

most of these i aready knew because you post this before like few years back

[fancollector12]

One I forgot is a white/AB Panama Vent hugger with 4B that they replaced the brackets with white ones. It's in a dry cleaners at the front of the counter

[Matt B.]

In the furniture dept. in one of my Habitats there is this brown JCPenney/Moss installed in one corner. The room it is in is huge and it is the only fan installed in the whole building.

[fancollector12]

Oh yeah and I forgot one: Hess gas stations have cool setups.

[Deleted]

I think that room was the boss's office when that building was a factory. The fan was over his desk.

[Adam D.]

That looks to be a Moss Hi Line.. I've seen five blade versions, never seen a 4 blade version like this..

[Matt B.]

A good possibility, I suppose the that room had a bunch of portable dividing walls dividing it into a bunch of cubicles. There are all sorts of floor outlets in the room too. I wonder if there is a control somewhere to power the fan, I never have seen it running.

[Deleted]

There's a control, I turned it on when I was there.

[jonasclark]

Oddest install I ever saw was in a Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor in Washington, back in the 80s. Most Farrell's had garish "Gay 90s" decor with loud metallic red-and-gold wallpaper and bright colors; for some strange reason, this one had fans - I wish I remember what kind, but they were not spinners and had bell-shaped canopies (I want to say Bananafans) painted sky blue. I poked my head into a long banquet room they had, which was not in use at the time, and saw three or four fans in a row... At the rear of the room, a false wall had been put up to within a foot of the ceiling, with a door in it, and the last fan I could see was about a foot from it... and a rectangular notch had been cut into the top of the wall, about a foot tall and as wide as a fan blade--
...yup, one of the fan's blades extended straight through this notch, rendering the fan useless!
During this same visit, a balloon from our table - I was there for some friend-of-a-friend's birthday party - got into the fan over our table, and its ribbon got all wound up in the flywheel. An employee got up on a chair and spent about five minutes untangling it. I wonder how often they had to do that. Poor guys.

A Burger King in my town had an unusual set-up when I was a kid; they had a glass solarium, the sort that slopes down and curves into a vertical glass wall, which ran for about fifteen feet along one side of the big dining room, turned a corner and ran another twenty. This had a trough along the lower edge, and water was pumped to a manifold along the top, so that the entire thing had water flowing over the windows constantly. To add to the cool factor for me (I was into fountains, too) there were four PB/oak Four Seasons, two along each side of the sunroom. When I was about eight they remodeled the dining room, removed the water feature from the sunroom (boooo!) and, for reasons I can't explain, moved but kept the fans, putting one along the shorter side and three along the longer. These were hung about a foot over on the solid ceiling from where the glass ended. Those were all removed in the early 90s.

The library in my town used to have fans, too. They were removed in a late 80s remodel. They had one three-blade white industrial over the info desk, way out in the middle of a big room with no other fans. It was an odd industrial, too, with a sort of smooth, domed, tan-colored bottom to the motor that looked to me (as a kid) like the tan rubber "button" on the bottom of the beaters for my mom's electric mixer. Another smaller library in town still has one of these; I've got to get photos.
That big library also had smaller, plainer white industrials in the sorting room. The room was rectangular and had a door in one short wall and another in one long wall. There was a fan directly over each doorway, and two or three more scattered randomly in the room. There was also a meeting room with two brown industrials, of the sort with a bell-shaped canopy and upturned blade tips.

There's an apartment complex near here where a friend lived for a short time. Like many complexes with indoor hallways, each building had a series of stairwells in a "tower" above the entrance, going up 3 or 4 floors. One day while wandering in there, I realized that at the top of each was a 42" PB/oak six-blade Homestead Universal - newer ones with ball-socket canopies. A few were intact, but not running; a few had sagging or broken flywheels; a few had a new five-blade PB/oak builder fan hung on the old downrod and canopy.

[Matt B.]

Oct 27, 2012 18:13:06 GMT -5 @spiffy said:

There's a control, I turned it on when I was there.

I figured there was, Is it by the fan or in another part of the room?

Next time you're in town, let me know.

[Deleted]

I will be there next summer for a week.

I believe the control was on the wall nearest the fan, but it's been years since I've been there.

[Matt B.]

Okay next time I go there I may have to check it out. I bet it hasn't been ran since you were there.

Yeah Charlie E and I may have to hook up with you and go around doing some fan hunting.

[Deleted]

My annual conference is there again this year. I will be overwhelmingly busy Mon-Thurs, but I'll have some time Friday and Sat.

[Matt B.]

Okay I'll have to see if anything is going on between the two of us on those days when the time comes.