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No. 0072Kitchen

c. 1955

Hoover coffee percolator

Hoover

Running about 63 years as of 2018

Hoover made coffee pots too

An American electric coffee percolator from around 1950, with the glass pot showing the pump tube and basket inside. Not a Hoover, and not the one in the story. — An American electric coffee percolator from around 1950, with the glass pot showing the pump tube and basket inside. Not a Hoover, and not the one in the story. Photo: Rote Fingur, CC BY-SA 3.0. The real one is in the original post.

A wedding gift 63 years before the post, this Hoover percolator comes out whenever company visits, and it made coffee the morning the photo was taken. Her grandchild had never seen one, called it a kettle, and learned from a commenter that it was a percolator. The bigger surprise was that Hoover ever made anything besides vacuums.

Retold from a post on r/Frugal. Read the original

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