The home of Redi Kilowatt - The Penelec Electric Demonstration Center in Downtown Johnstown. Redi was everywhere - and I can remember going to cooking demonstrations at the building that replaced this one on Broad Street. I always went with my mother - so it must have been some kind of mother/daughter thing through the school - because there were other mother/daughters there. The teacher would cook something up - so along with a bag of Redi Kilowatt toys - we'd all get to eat. Unfortunately the lessons were lost on me - much like an omelet sliding off a Teflon pan - I am an expert at the fine art of begging for leftovers. This was the building on Vine Street.
I probably collected 3 or 4 Redi pins (always in bright red) from various tours of Penelec as as Girl Scout and grad schooler.
ReplyDeleteI believe that this building was at the top of Vine Street.
ReplyDeleteIt's "Reddy Kilowatt"--created for the Alabama Power Company in the 1920's and franchised to other electric utilities (including the one serving pre-Castro Cuba, where he was known as "Callisto Kilowatt")
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