Another Wacky Adventure

[Adam D.]

I love going into these old houses.. It's another foreclosed house.. I was told the father passed away and the kids took over the house and they destroyed it.. Left everything behind, 30+ years of hoarding..





Back room.. where two of these were located..



One of the bedrooms.. My my what a mess





The smaller bedroom





Master Bedroom.. A Palco that was replaced somewhere in the 90s with one of these.. Still was hooked to the speed control and has the original downrod/canopy/J-hook mounting.. Someone was either a diabetic or a drug user because there was alot of needle syringes lying around in this room along with pill bottles still with the name on them..



LOL @ the wall



Another mess in that room..





The Living room/dining area.. More 90s Replacements still using the original mounting and controls.. I ended up taking these down for my friend who wanted them..





Walked into the Garage and was greeted with that Evergo/Union Labled Southern Breeze which has a Moss Canopy. Odd nut






Here are the fans.. Some are Labeled as Breeze industries and some are labeled as Palco.. Palco was in Boca Raton and Breeze industries was in Deerfield Beach.. Literally was less than 5 miles from each other.




The Southern Breeze




I grabbed all the controls.. Some are Labeled as Carib/Breeze Industries and some are just labeled Breeze..



I'm surprised these controls held up for this long.. These types of fans, even going back into the mid 1980s had issues with these regulators going up in smoke on them.. Some of the walls had a smoke imprint shaping the transformer and the outer edges.. And some of the control's transformers look toasty..

[Daniel G.]

Looks like you hit the jackpot today!

[Andrew G.]

What amounts to a straight-bladed Gold Line... I always wondered if these existed. Holy hell.

[Jean Lemieux]

Very cool and interesting. It's a similar situation to when you found many four metal curved blade fans in June 2012. It's usually those ordinary not too renovated houses that have vintage spinners in them.

The 1990's fans with the cylinder canopies reminds me of some Majestic that originally comes this way. Haha!
Isn't the green one a Craftmade Decorative? It seems to have a detachable switch housing though.

The glossy black fans remind me of some Guibb. They did a good job in painting the canopies and poles to make them match the fans.

I never saw those Palco/Breeze Industries in the 90 cm (36) size before. This way it looks like a current copper painted Banvil Gold Line 90 cm with different canopies. I love the medium size models.

Here too these fans can be seen labeled both Breeze Industries or Palco with either a Breeze or Carib control. Those are the same controls as the ones I saw here in Montréal on some four blade models. It's insane how they yellow easily. The tags falls off easily too.
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The white fan is very weird. I never saw this combination of parts before and a nut on those motors in unusual.

Congrats for you're cool finds.

[Adam D.]

Thanks guys.. Yup.. That's a very similar situation.... I agree that they did a good job at painting the downrods and canopies..

It's quite odd how some of the controls are really yellowed and some aren't and that one still has a white knob and another vica/versa.. Chemical reaction..

[Andrew G.]

Jan 4, 2014 18:28:56 GMT -5 Adam D. said:

It's quite odd how some of the controls are really yellowed and some aren't and that one still has a white knob and another vica/versa.. Chemical reaction..

That's either heat damage from the choke coils killing themselves or UV damage.

[Deleted]

That's a nice haul ! It's nice that you got them

what are the fans in the living room/ dinning room area ?
I've never saw something like that.
did they have an uplight ?

[thefanman84 "Elder Moss"]

Adam...that house was a mess.com! Glad you got the fans!

[thefanman84 "Elder Moss"]

And where was the original??

[Deleted]

That Southern Breeze is SO ODD. I love/hate it.

I would have gotten all the newer fans, for the canopies.

[Adam D.]

I would have too.. But I was digging out quarters and borrowing money from a friend to get these.. Damn ridiculously high Florida auto insurance took most of my money Friday..

Thanks David and everyone else.. The black ones only have spot light kits on them.. those see through green plastic rings that goes around the lights and the motor housing, you maybe mistaking as another thing that lights up.. I don't know the make of them.. I didn't really look, I'll have to check next time I go down to my friend's house..

[organistjx]

While I enjoy the fans you got as much as the next guy, I can't help but think of this one warning label I read about a couple years ago about how industrial ceiling fans aren't meant to be mounted more than ten feet above the floor due to safety concerns. I can definitely see where this logic got thrown out the window though... but good find nevertheless. Did you get the black ones with the spot-light kits by any chance?

[Adam D.]

I mentioned above that my friend got them.. I was going to leave them there.. They are much too modern for me...

[Cole S.]

A bit late here but that's a great haul! I love all of those industrials a lot, shame about the house being such a mess.

[Deleted]

I want a better look at that Southern Breeze.