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Lisa Vitale
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| Joined: | Sat Jul 19th, 2008 |
| Location: | Upstate NY, New York USA |
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Posted: Sat Jul 26th, 2008 07:11 pm |
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My own personal Saab acronym is:
S illy me for buying a car with fancy schmancy computerized
A utomatic Climate control system which breaks
A nnually costing me far too much hard earned
B read each time the darned thing BREAKS!
Shoulda kept the SAAB 900; it was made before GM acquired Saab Scania and the good ole 900 didn't break nearly as much as the present model. Present model is gleefully plotting its next expensive malfunction just to make Lisa sob!
Oh well, at lest the MARELLI auxilliary Fan in the engine compartment still operates "favoloso"!
 Lisa 
(who is getting the tool box NOW to start taking apart the 1950s LASKO. Got me my toolbox, dustoff, the oil, multi surface cleaner, the chrome cleaner/wax and the Meguiars wax! Hee-Hee! Does this gal know how to spend a Saturday afternoon or what?!?)
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Bill Kreiner
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| Location: | Hawthorne, New Jersey USA |
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Posted: Sat Jul 26th, 2008 11:40 pm |
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Oh, Lisa, that is fantastic! I'm glad you post here, as I can never get enough of folks who have great senses of humor! Hope you had fun cleaning your nice fan. My neighbor had one just like yours, but it was in terrible condition. I passed it by when it was offered to me after his death, because it was so rusted I just didn't want to be saddled with the laborious task of restoring it to its former glory. Yours is a beauty.
You're welcome, Jeremy, for the SAAB data. Incidentally, after the war ended, SAAB decided to get into the automotive business. In 1946, SAAB-Scania produced its first prototype, which still exists. I saw it myself several years ago. The company produced a few more prototypes over the next few years, and then made 25 pilot models in the summer of 1949. In December 1949, series production began.
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Lisa Vitale
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Posted: Sun Jul 27th, 2008 04:46 pm |
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Bill Kreiner wrote:
Oh, Lisa, that is fantastic! I'm glad you post here, as I can never get enough of folks who have great senses of humor! Hope you had fun cleaning your nice fan. My neighbor had one just like yours, but it was in terrible condition. I passed it by when it was offered to me after his death, because it was so rusted I just didn't want to be saddled with the laborious task of restoring it to its former glory. Yours is a beauty.
Thanks for the kind words. Hey Bill, did your neighbor's fan have a good handle on top?!? Hope the terible condition fan didn't go to the scrap heap with an intact handle. Hmmm, I am missing one rubber foot from the bottom of the Lasko too. I'll have to check the "for sale" portion of the forum; maybe I can find another rubber foot for the fan there. Not done cleaning the fan yet. Probably what takes most forum members 2 hours will take this newbie 1 week.
 That's ok -- I'll get 'er done!
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Rob Duffy
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Posted: Sun Jul 27th, 2008 04:51 pm |
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| Dante's Peak has a fan on the shelf in the hotel when Pierce Brosnan is talking to the hotel owner. Superlectric?
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Jeremy Rittenhouse
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| Location: | Scottsville, New York USA |
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Posted: Mon Jul 28th, 2008 04:59 pm |
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| I forgot about the scene in The Seven Year Itch, where Marilyn Monroe comes back from the store to her apartment during a heat wave in NYC, carrying a brand-new fan. Lucky fan!
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Perry Brokaw
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Posted: Mon Jul 28th, 2008 06:08 pm |
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Whatched the Will Smith movie I Robot last night.There is a Freshy in a cafe/bar shot and a what looks like a Westy later on in the flick.Also I know is not old but the single bladed ceiling fan in his apartment in the opening shots is pretty sharp looking!!!
Perry
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Duane Burright
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Posted: Mon Jul 28th, 2008 08:56 pm |
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Jeremy Rittenhouse wrote: Speaking of aviation, I think I made a couple of brief fan sightings in the movie about Howard Hughes called The Aviator. I thought it was a great movie and bought the DVD after I saw it at the theatre, but haven't watched it again yet. I'll have to see if I can identify them!
You're right. There's a Freshen'd Air pedestal in a couple of scenes.
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Duane Burright
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Posted: Mon Jul 28th, 2008 09:00 pm |
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| In the movie "Bad Boys" you see an old oscillator (running in stationary mode) sitting on the floor in Tea Leone's apartment. Looked to me like a Hunter Zephair or Century, but it's been a while since I've seen that flick. You also see a mid 80's Galaxy ped in the evidence room (I know I know, not an old fan) and a GE "Personal" fan near the end in an old hangar (it gets smashed by a garbage truck).
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Jeremy Rittenhouse
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Posted: Mon Jul 28th, 2008 09:19 pm |
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Duane Burright wrote: You also see a mid 80's Galaxy ped in the evidence room (I know I know, not an old fan) and a GE "Personal" fan near the end in an old hangar (it gets smashed by a garbage truck).
I hope they used a stunt fan for that scene!
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Mark Allen
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Posted: Mon Jul 28th, 2008 11:43 pm |
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| Law And Order has several old fans up on the wood shelves in the place where the detectives have their desks.
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Zachary Yarnes
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Posted: Tue Jul 29th, 2008 01:05 am |
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On the TV show Becker there's a fan that hangs in Reggie's Diner, I have no idea what kind....I also remember on an episode of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, one where Will lies about seeing a murder in Philly and having to move to Mississippi...there was an Eskimo fan hanging on the wall of the office of the guy who got "killed"....
On a canadian show called "Corner Gas" there is one episode where one of the characters Hank fixes a fan...I don't know what kind it was but it was older, probably from the 50s....
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