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Jim Staruk

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My daughter is house hunting and looked at this house built in 1965. Does the kitchen floor look familiar to any of you?
 

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now talk her into redoing it and help remove it, you start buy cutting a 10 x 9 foot section out of the center.
 
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Armstrong 5352 embossed inlaid linoleum ....... the most popular style every produced! Not available any more, unless you can find some in somebody's storeroom...............
 
I love that original kitchen in the photo! It has really been well cared for! How in the world would you possibly salvage this stuff without destroying it?

The Colonial Classic is really an embossed laminate, and not a true linoleum in its original form. True linoleum is actually a much better flooring material than the laminates as the color goes all the way through. Many real linoleum options are still available, but marketed as commercial flooring(medical).

A neighbor and friend has this in the rear entrance to her home and down the basement steps. She just carpeted over it within the past year.
 
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Back in ancient times Yawman & Erbe the manufacturers of office furniture had a factory in Rochester covering a large block in the city. By the 60s they were more heavily into steel furniture and getting away from oak.

Many of National's cars were in need of replacement floor covering, and George having connections all over town got hands on several Linoleum tops for large conference tables that pretty well covered the deck with battleship linoleum 5/16" thick. You could pretty much beat that linoleum with a clawhammer without hurting it.

Bending it to get the sheet through the back door was a lot of fun, and cutting required minimally a Sawzall. The mechanic refused to even try, and nobody else in the company admitted having any idea how to lay Linoleum.

Since Y&E was a huge park like campus, and because George was adding 5 bucks more every week for anybody who could install a floor one of National's cars took up a shaded parking spot at Y&E as an enterprising crew learned to fit Linoleum. Cardboard templates were made and somebody got hands on a sawzall.

$55 a floor for a fairly easy job wasn't hard to take. The only problem was George forgot to buy glue.

When the dust settled everybody learned smooth gray battleship Linoleum is slicker than snot on a doorknob.

Yawman closed up and auctioned a few years later, and the brilliant Junior went to the sale to stock up on future ambulance floors. He was quite proud of his deal. Everybody learned Junior had no concept of distance measuring.
He bought a couple skids full of small office table tops.
 
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