Man! You oughta be called TheCasablancaKinger! I'll bet $1000 this fan among the first 100 Cambridge's ever made! I would not be surprised either if and probably is, among the first 50 of these ever made, knowing you and Casablanca fans! This is a real classic! So elegant and upscale! Love the finish!
Years ago, I lived in an apartment complex that had two of these in the clubhouse. Very tall cathedral ceilings, mounted on the slope, maybe 30+ degrees with apx. 5ft downrods. Antique brass, plain blades. Each had a solid state control on the wall next the wood burning- turned-gas fireplace. The slope was extreme enough you could almost see the top of the mounting ball on each one, and no recall clips. One day I asked why they were never used. They told me they wobbled too much. I didn’t dare turn them on! After moving away, I had to go back for some reason and they were replaced with some 5-blade Craftmade fans with strikingly-similar blade arms. I forget the model name, but they were oddly similar. The solid-state controls replaced with 3-speed dials, and both on medium. I asked about the Cambridge fans, they said the electrician tossed them a few months prior. Fast-forward 17+ years, the pics of the clubhouse show no fans and the fireplace gone. Only time I ever saw these IRL. Very cool fans!
That's just so sad that they'll just throw out good fans like that for cheap crap made- I mean craft made fans like those, I wish the electricians would take em to goodwill or habitat where fan collectors would find it and make a video of it, because fans like these are rare, and don't deserve to be thrown out. Cool that you saw those in the wild though, where I live Casablanca fans are a not too common but not too uncommon sight, I know a few places with fans like the delta II or the wailia, sometimes even a hunter original!
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Man! You oughta be called TheCasablancaKinger! I'll bet $1000 this fan among the first 100 Cambridge's ever made! I would not be surprised either if and probably is, among the first 50 of these ever made, knowing you and Casablanca fans! This is a real classic! So elegant and upscale! Love the finish!
Years ago, I lived in an apartment complex that had two of these in the clubhouse. Very tall cathedral ceilings, mounted on the slope, maybe 30+ degrees with apx. 5ft downrods. Antique brass, plain blades. Each had a solid state control on the wall next the wood burning- turned-gas fireplace. The slope was extreme enough you could almost see the top of the mounting ball on each one, and no recall clips.
One day I asked why they were never used. They told me they wobbled too much. I didn’t dare turn them on!
After moving away, I had to go back for some reason and they were replaced with some 5-blade Craftmade fans with strikingly-similar blade arms. I forget the model name, but they were oddly similar. The solid-state controls replaced with 3-speed dials, and both on medium. I asked about the Cambridge fans, they said the electrician tossed them a few months prior.
Fast-forward 17+ years, the pics of the clubhouse show no fans and the fireplace gone.
Only time I ever saw these IRL. Very cool fans!
That's just so sad that they'll just throw out good fans like that for cheap crap made- I mean craft made fans like those, I wish the electricians would take em to goodwill or habitat where fan collectors would find it and make a video of it, because fans like these are rare, and don't deserve to be thrown out. Cool that you saw those in the wild though, where I live Casablanca fans are a not too common but not too uncommon sight, I know a few places with fans like the delta II or the wailia, sometimes even a hunter original!
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