Tara Updates

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As hinted previously, I have in fact found some photos of actual Taras. They're nothing spectacular, one is an odd ornate version of the fan I've never seen before, and the other is white and torn apart. But they nevertheless are real live Taras and I thought I would share.

I am in the process of updating my Tara Quest page (actually Tammy's updating it I am HTML/JAVA illiterate) and so the photos are there. Check them out, and please let me know what you think.


My sketch wasnt half-bad, eh? Seems like I remembered the blade tips slightly different, but everything else was the money shot.

www.geocities.com/mt_spiffy/

[Farah]

;)Hey those are pretty nice pictures of the Tara fan you've got there. Good luck with the tara quest. by the way who's cat is that in one of the photos? ;D

[JW]

In fact I remember the fans with Diehl brackets having the "arched-end" tips, but those were the only details I remember... they may not have been Taras for all I know.

Maybe they made Taras with several types of blade tips as well?

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SimpsonFan2004 said:

;)Hey those are pretty nice pictures of the Tara fan you've got there. Good luck with the tara quest. by the way who's cat is that in one of the photos? ;D

Thanks sweetheart I hope to have some better photos of the fan when I get one, if not before. Obviously it'd look better put together, the guy I got the photos from has the white one in pieces, and the whtie one is the one that has the bottom plate (vent holes) the one I like had.

The cat picture . . . well, on the day I went back out to the lumberyard to take pictures of it, the Tara canopy, the replacement fan etc . . . I decided to document, in photo, the whole trip. So before I left I got a shot my my bright and smiling face by holding the camera out in front of me . . . and my cat was bothering me, rubbing against my legs and making a lot of noise to feed him, so I snapped a picture of him too. I got him at age 5 and named him "Fluffy". He's a cranky old bastard but I still love him.

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JW said:

In fact I remember the fans with Diehl brackets having the "arched-end" tips, but those were the only details I remember... they may not have been Taras for all I know.

The fans you remember, what did they look like? I've been told the only fans with those Diehl brackets, besides the Diehls, were the Taras.

JW said:

Maybe they made Taras with several types of blade tips as well?

Well, I was five at the time I saw the fan, and it was running most of the time. I probably jsut remembered the blade tips incorrectly. The arched end really is very similar to the ones I posted, rounded with the corners cut out. Also, a lot of arched-end blades have rounded corners, which is probably why I assumed they werent arched end.


Another thought:

As I wrote in the text of the page, Southern Fan sold some of their fans to American Lantern who relabeled them. It is fairly certain the fan I saw was one of those American Lantern fans, as the buyer for the lumberyard had never heard of Southern Fan or Tara, but they had at one point sold American Lantern lights. The fan was probably a sample. Now I would think the American Lantern fans were slightly different-- they probably didnt have the big "Tara" plate on the side or the "T" on the bottom. Perhaps their blades were slightly different.

[ulkesh54]

Do you think you could also post those pics on the yahoo group. So many people have been visiting your site, geocities will not let me access it.

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ulkesh54 said:

Do you think you could also post those pics on the yahoo group. So many people have been visiting your site, geocities will not let me access it.

I (temporarily) took all those lumberyard photos off the site, because they take up an awful lot of bandwidth. But I also uploaded the Tara photos to the Yahoo Group, in a brand new folder called "Tara by Southern Fan Co"

groups.yahoo.com/group/vintageceilingfans/

[ulkesh54]

Thanks for the pictures, Dan! ;D
That variable speed knob is huge!!!

[organist89]

That variable speed knob is big enough for martians to land their spaceship on. The very same martians, in fact, that want to abduct that SEXY cat of yours

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Pierce said:

That variable speed knob is big enough for martians to land their spaceship on. The very same martians, in fact, that want to abduct that SEXY cat of yours

So THAT's where you come from.

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ulkesh54 said:

Thanks for the pictures, Dan! ;D
That variable speed knob is huge!!!

The fan as a child . . . I remember it being bigger than normal, but not THAT big. I also thought it was ribbed metal rather than wood. Either way, that's the original knob that came on Taras, made in some mill in . . . I forget, man he told me, I want to saw New Hampshire but that's not right!

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Tammy redesigned the website a bit for me, check it out. The lumberyard pics are back but on another page.

[ulkesh54]

How much did a Tara originally cost in 1989?

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ulkesh54 said:

How much did a Tara originally cost in 1989?

$289 I believe. Somewhere between $200-300, but I cannot recall the exact figure. But $289 rings a bell.

[Farah]

Whoa! I guess they were pretty expensive back in the day. I wonder how much they would cost now.