And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
He was also PG&E's spokesbolt back in the day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezqOBYH0_Hk "When you toast your toast, or you roast you roast it is I who make them hot."
Worked just fine. That's a great graphic. Reddy Kilowatt was all over the place. There's an old RK sign no longer in use near Hernandez, New Mexico just down the road a bit where Ansel Adams snapped the famous "Moonrise" photo.
Made me smile.
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ReplyDeleteNo, Mississippi Power & Light. Sponsored Bob Neblett's weather forecast on WLBT back in the 1960s.
ReplyDeleteyep, MP&L. i haven't thought about this in years.
DeleteI am pretty sure that the name of that logo was: Ready Kilowatt
ReplyDeleteYep, even has his initials on his shoe.
DeleteReddy Kilowatt
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure that he had nothing to do with Helen Reddy.
DeleteI stand corrected. It was Reddy Kilowatt.
Deleteready kilowatt trademark for all the Edison affiliated power companies
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He was also PG&E's spokesbolt back in the day.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezqOBYH0_Hk
"When you toast your toast, or you roast you roast it is I who make them hot."
Utah Power & Light also user RK.
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ReplyDeleteWorked just fine. That's a great graphic. Reddy Kilowatt was all over the place. There's an old RK sign no longer in use near Hernandez, New Mexico just down the road a bit where Ansel Adams snapped the famous "Moonrise" photo.
DeleteAlso Ohio Power, a subsidiary AEP
ReplyDeleteAlso PP&L, Pennsylvania Power and Light, now simply PPL.
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Anheiser-Busch had an animated flapping American eagle on the side of some large building in Boston as late as the '60's.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, in Ohio that was Eddie (for Edison) Electric.
i still have a little "reddy" tie tac.
ReplyDeleteAnd Consumers Power in Michigan.
ReplyDeleteHe's a real live wire.
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