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Post by Jordan U on Dec 22, 2014 13:41:51 GMT -5
Around 2:30, there's an unusual fan in the kitchen, anyone know what it is? Not as exciting, some hugger fan, looks to be Canadian with a reverse chain at 3:40 Looks to be maybe an SMC just after 6:10, can be seen again closer around 7:00 There's also an SMC spinner at 10:50, unfortunately there's never a great look at that one. A neat spinner at 1:28, a little better look at 8:10, and again at 11:10 There's something I don't really recognize at 1:00, maybe its Canarm? Can also be seen right before 2:00 An old ventilation fan just after 8:00
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Dec 22, 2014 16:26:51 GMT -5
Very cool, thanks for posting. I might have seen this abandoned exploration channel before. It is indeed in Canada, in Ontario. It might be the same channel that showed a house in Ontario with an old 1970's brass SMC spinner above the stairs.
In the first video is a early 1980's KDK-Panasonic fan.
The little brass hugger could be a lot of things. Probably a Main Stays.
In the 3rd video there's an early 1990's SMC Park Avenue IV Plus with the blades installed on the wrong side of the brackets. The little spinner would be a Canarm of the same age or maybe an older Banvil.
In the 4th video it looks like some kind of 1980's CEC.
In the last video is a recent black and steel Canarm Mystic. Only two pull chains.
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Post by Jonathan A. on Dec 22, 2014 18:05:18 GMT -5
And if I see a good ceiling fan in abandoned place, I'll try to save it, like I saved a Hunter Infiniti and Hampton Bay Alchemy from a house that is now demolished (although, it wasn't abandoned, someone just offered to buy it to build 2 new houses on that property, and I've actually known that owner (who someone bought that house from) for years, even before he bought that house in 2005).
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Post by Jordan U on Dec 22, 2014 20:57:10 GMT -5
Very cool, thanks for posting. I might have seen this abandoned exploration channel before. It is indeed in Canada, in Ontario. It might be the same channel that showed a house in Ontario with an old 1970's brass SMC spinner above the stairs. In the first video is a early 1980's KDK-Panasonic fan. The little brass hugger could be a lot of things. Probably a Main Stays. In the 3rd video there's an early 1990's SMC Park Avenue IV Plus with the blades installed on the wrong side of the brackets. The little spinner would be a Canarm of the same age or maybe an older Banvil. In the 4th video it looks like some kind of 1980's CEC. In the last video is a recent black and steel Canarm Mystic. Only two pull chains. This very well could be that channel, she has tons of videos and is located in Canada, so I assume they're all recorded in Canada. Sounds like an interesting install, I'll have to look through more of her videos and see if I can find it. The hugger is too generic to really tell, Heritage puts out an identical looking fan here in the states, not sure if it was ever in Canada or not. I thought there was something odd about that Park Avenue. I though the spinner looked like an SMC Promo, but I couldn't get a real good look at it. Unfortunately there's not a very good view of that fan in the 4th video, but CEC is a good guess. Better than anything I came up with (nothing). The motor and brackets look particularly substantial on that fan, more so than the average spinner of the time. 5th video, at least I got one right! I'll update with more videos when I find them. Feel free to add some videos too. I saved a Hunter Infiniti and Hampton Bay Alchemy from a house I know, how could anyone forget?
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Dec 23, 2014 3:06:19 GMT -5
She does a few occasional international videos but they are mostly in Ontario.
It is that same channel, I found it again the video with the house that has a brass 1970's SMC spinner in the upstairs hall around 4:30. The house is in Mississauga.
This one has some old looking spinner that looks like a 1970's Banvil Gold Line with the blades in a sad shape. It even has a plug on the ceiling like in commercial settings. It's in the room with yellow walls that can be seen many times in the video.
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Post by Jordan U on Dec 23, 2014 13:09:06 GMT -5
She does a few occasional international videos but they are mostly in Ontario. It is that same channel, I found it again the video with the house that has a brass 1970's SMC spinner in the upstairs hall around 4:30. The house is in Mississauga. This one has some old looking spinner that looks like a 1970's Banvil Gold Line with the blades in a sad shape. It even has a plug on the ceiling like in commercial settings. It's in the room with yellow walls that can be seen many times in the video. The spinner definitely seems like a cool install, too bad it was too dark to see the entire room at once. That's definitely some sort of industrial in the second video, I'm not aware of any residential fans that have plugs like that. That's kind of odd to see metal blades that bent, I doubt that happened naturally.
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Post by Max C. on Dec 24, 2014 21:31:15 GMT -5
Thanks for posting this Jordan. It's cool to see some Canadian urban exploration. I wonder if there's anybody here in BC who posts videos like this. That Canarm Mystic is very new for an abandoned house. It's probably not even ten years old! Also, don't you mean "Ceiling Fans in Abandoned Places?"
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Post by Jordan U on Dec 25, 2014 13:27:28 GMT -5
Also, don't you mean "Ceiling Fans in Abandoned Places?" No, I mean "Ceiling Fan's in Abandoned Places!"
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Jan 20, 2015 4:23:20 GMT -5
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Post by Jordan U on Jan 20, 2015 10:04:03 GMT -5
That is really bad! Looks like it would have been a neat install at the time, over what might have been a fireplace? I like those little industrials, the 4 blade ones aren't a common sight around where I am. That's a really neat photograph, those are in pretty good condition, but the whole building itself looks decent as well. That's kind of an odd install. It does look like there may be one more in the far back, or I suppose it could just be a mark on the wall. Interesting how they got the graffiti that high up on the walls. Are you sure that place is abandoned? It looks relatively new. That's a nice one! Another neat random install Is that church located in Canada? I don't understand why people abandon such expensive buildings like that. It doesn't even look to be in that bad condition.
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Post by JW on Jan 20, 2015 21:50:07 GMT -5
Can someone please fix the title of this thread? It was supposed to say "Ceiling fans in abandoned places" Honestly I think a post with a font the size of New Jersey is more of an eyesore than the title being off by a letter, but that's just me. Feel free to PM us in the future if you can't change the title on your own.
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Post by Jordan U on Jan 20, 2015 22:10:51 GMT -5
Can someone please fix the title of this thread? It was supposed to say "Ceiling fans in abandoned places" Honestly I think a post with a font the size of New Jersey is more of an eyesore than the title being off by a letter, but that's just me. Feel free to PM us in the future if you can't change the title on your own. I did that just to make sure it was seen, assuming you it whoever changed it would edit my post and delete that portion. It's gone now. Will PM in the future.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Jan 21, 2015 16:36:30 GMT -5
Jordan, I hadn't thought of that but yes it seems that it could have been a fireplace. This is what those 4 Saisons looks like with the more common motor for them. It's thicker than the other motor you saw. It's a very important childhood fan of mine. This one is from 1980 with plastic canopies, the one in the abandoned place has metal canopies and a slimmer motor so more around 1982-1984. www.vintageceilingfans.com/membergalleries/gallery/showimage.php?i=1050&c=34Yes the place with the Canarms CP56 is abandoned but probably not since a long time ago. It still has power. All those pictures are from places in Québec. That church is/was in Trois-Rivières. The ceiling of the church is still in good condition but the closer to the floor it's a mess. People don't go to church as much as they used to. Normally they have to have a very good reason to destroy a church, usually they are protected. Often what they can do is convert it into a library or a museum.
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Post by Jordan U on Jan 26, 2015 8:44:29 GMT -5
All those pictures are from places in Québec. That church is/was in Trois-Rivières. The ceiling of the church is still in good condition but the closer to the floor it's a mess. People don't go to church as much as they used to. Normally they have to have a very good reason to destroy a church, usually they are protected. Often what they can do is convert it into a library or a museum. Unfortunately a lot of people don't don't go to church anymore around here either. I'm not sure if they are protected buildings here or not, there aren't a whole lot of abandoned ones in this area. Turning them into a library or museum would be a good idea, that's much better than just ridding of all that beautiful architecture.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Jan 28, 2015 22:51:10 GMT -5
All those pictures are from places in Québec. That church is/was in Trois-Rivières. The ceiling of the church is still in good condition but the closer to the floor it's a mess. People don't go to church as much as they used to. Normally they have to have a very good reason to destroy a church, usually they are protected. Often what they can do is convert it into a library or a museum. Unfortunately a lot of people don't don't go to church anymore around here either. I'm not sure if they are protected buildings here or not, there aren't a whole lot of abandoned ones in this area. Turning them into a library or museum would be a good idea, that's much better than just ridding of all that beautiful architecture. The college I went to used to be an old monastery and the chapel is used as the library of the college. The chapel still has it's original stain glass windows from Limoges. In 1999 they transformed it into a college and added a new postmodern style part to it in contrast with the old european part made of stones.
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