Lots of great old images in this Creativepro.com article from earlier this year. Electricity once had a perky little mascot, Reddy Kilowatt, with a light bulb nose, plugs for ears, and a body made of lightning bolts… It’s hard to imagine when people didn’t take electricity for granted, yet in the beginning electricity was restricted [...]
Here’s a recollection of Reddy from the StoryCorps project on New Hampshire Public Radio: “Rebecca Boothman recounts stories of her childhood growing up in Randolph, NH and reveals what life was like for her mother when her father went off to fight in World War II.” We never had a television. If we were real [...]
A Fort Worth forum discussion on an old Reddy sign that used to be on a power plant: I grew up in Stop Six and Poly, and moved to Ohio in 1978 when my parents passed away. I was wondering, is Reddy Kilowatt still on the side of the Handley power plant? I remember him [...]