Holmes 20" Fan 17.99

[Jokersmoker]

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[FordLorider]

You should be able to get a box fan for 1/2 this price from your local supermarket (Meijer for MI). During welcome week here at MSU, they has fans for $9.99

 

[Kwad Guy]

Sure, you can find a box fan for less, but can you find a box fan made
by the company who invented the place you live for less?

A little history: The Holmes company was originally the Homes company, and actually
invented the modern (post-mud, post-adobe, post log-cabin) home. They had the
trademark on the name "Home" and in fact all modern-style houses built before 1917 in the
US were built by the Homes company. The founder of the company, Benjamin Seymour Ohm,
envisioned that eventually there would be what we now consider a "modern" style abode
(or "Home") that would feature amenities only dreamt of when the Homes company was
starting out. These amenities included electrical power, pipe delivered water, and what
Ohm considered to be the greatest challenge to man and also ultimately his greatest
accomplishment "an electric fan device capable of moving vast quantities of air, thereby
creating the perception of lowered temperatures for those who are within the path of the
airflow". This was to be, obviouly, the modern fan.

By 1914, the Homes company was offering "family abodes with all the amenties of the
modern man, including our NEW ELECTRIC FAN." This started a revolution in modernization
that lasted the entire century.

Unfortunately for the Homes corporation, they failed to properly protect their trademarkon the
term Home, and by the 1920s it had fallen into common use, with developers throughout the
US terming their living quarters "homes". Homes corporation sued, but it was too late. In a landmark
1928 ruling, the US Supreme Court ruled against the Homes corporation ("Homes Corporation vs.
Really Great Homes") and they forever lost the trademark. When Pat Mahoney Ohm, the last
blood heir to the founder of the company, stepped down from the Homes company in 1936, the
board voted to change the name to Holmes from Homes, as tacit recognition that their trademark
was forever lost. Since then, the company has left the home development field entirely, and after
several mis-guided aquisition sprees and a resulting cash crunch that forced them to divest most
of their holdings, they are now a much smaller company devoted to making "the best, cost-is-no-object
home appliances available on the market."

Such as, bringing this back to the beginning, that Holmes fan for $17.99. $18 does not seem like
a lot for the best that money can buy, does it? For a fan made by the company that invented the
concept of moving air to cool you off? Sure, you can buy a Far East knockoff fan for $10.
But why buy hotdogs when you can get filet for only a few bucks more.

Kwad

 

[NordicNINE]

Actually, they make good quality quiet & powerful fans.

We got a 20" Holmes Power 20 oscillating fan from Kmart last year for about $20. Puts out more air than any of the cheapie fans and is very quiet.

Since Kmart carries Holmes, I wonder if there are some really good closeouts on them in the stores that are closing.

Just a though.

 

[Collije]

We're not talking about Bentleys...a box fan is a box fan is a box fan.

That said, I for one always appreciate the efforts by Jokersmoker for his contributions. Gracias!

 

[Tanner]

Hey joker...ever seen a deal on a Patton fan? THOSE things ROCK!

THANKS FOR THE DEAL THOUGH! Our apt is alread gettin' muggy in the back rooms!