Today's Habitat Find: SMC Spinner

[mndoss06]

I went to the three local Habitats here in the Hampton Roads area (Norfolk, VA Beach, and Newport News) and I found this cheap SMC top mount spinner at the Newport News Restore. It's dated May 1997 and is in really nice condition. The blade arms are really small and the blades are very skinny. None of the blade arms are bent which is always a plus. It even had both of the neat SMC labeled pull chains. This model was sold in K-Mart. Wasn't this one of the last top mount spinners sold in the US? They pretty much seemed to go out of style in the early 90s. While I know it's a cheapo fan I love top mounts and had to pick this one up. I would say that top mounts are really the only thing I collect, since I've started to acquire quite a few of them now.

[Adam D.]

First time I've seen these things with vent holes..

There was a thread on here posted years ago about these S.M.C. spinners dating to 1997.. S.M.C. kept the same look up till they were discontinued.. The last of the Lagunas..

[Andrew G.]

Yes.. going off of the model number, this actually is a laguna variant.

[fancollector12]

I'd say it's an Atlantic air. Never knew they made Laguna variants this late! (:

[Cole S.]

I like these things with the vents, not the most common variant by any means.

[Rick M.]

Very cool Laguna variant; this is the first one with vents that I've seen.

[Jonathan A.]

It looks like the one in the YouTube video:

[veteater]

Does this model use a ball and socket or J-hook?

[Andrew G.]

Technically neither, it uses a ball/canopy mounting system.

[Deleted]

Nov 11, 2012 3:14:57 GMT -5 Andrew G. said:

Technically neither, it uses a ball/canopy mounting system.

like my smc park avenue i had since it's from same company

imo they are a pain to install

[J.J. A.]

Are these particular ones rare?

[Jean Lemieux]

Nov 10, 2012 22:54:24 GMT -5 Adam D. said:

First time I've seen these things with vent holes..

There was a thread on here posted years ago about these S.M.C. spinners dating to 1997.. S.M.C. kept the same look up till they were discontinued.. The last of the Lagunas..

It might have been me. Sears sold the SMC Laguna 90 cm as late as 2001.

[Jean Lemieux]

I prefer them without vents but it's still a very cute fan.

The 107 cm ones are rare.

It does not have stencil I suppose?

[mndoss06]

Thanks for all the info everyone, I definitely learned a lot about this fan! It doesn't have stencil blades Jean, just all white. Unfortunately, as with most fans I seem to get from Habitat, it didn't come with any mounting hardware. The K-mart near my Grandparents' house in the Eastern Shore of VA had one of these in display for awhile, long after they stopped selling them. I think they got rid of it when they got rid of the fan display. One of the K-marts near me in VA Beach has two of these still mounted in the food area. I guess you could say this model fan was the end of an era.

[John "Rockin" Reed]

When I saw them on display at K-Mart this time of year in 1996 when I was in 8th grade, it made me nostalgic for my prior childhood. I wish I would have gotten one, but I wasn't 'collecting' back then!