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[Dinerman]

Well- I got these yesterday.
you just can't pass up a marlin tie clip or reddy kilowatt.

the tie clip was four bucks and was made by anson. any guess to age?

reddy was 80 cents, and is now a hatpin.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Reddy Rocks.

Cool pin. I have a patch with Reddy on it. Kilowatt items are getting hard to find.

 

[John in Covina]

Reddy Kilowatt

I am not familiar with this Reddy Kilowatt mascot, what company and area does he represent?

 

[Dinerman]

as I understand it, he was the old mascot for electric companies nationwide.

 

[John in Covina]

as I understand it, he was the old mascot for electric companies nationwide.

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What is the time period for this mascot?

We had Lilco (Long Island Lighting Company) when I was in Copiague on Long Island in NY and out here its Edison in our area. I have no recollection of this character, I don't think LILCO used him, too friendy. LILCO's mascot would have been a cross between Dracula and a Robber Baron sucking the money out of the consumer.

 

[WideBrimm]

Really nice pin. I never knew there were Reddy Kilowatt pins.
I tend to agree that Reddy Kilowatt was a nationwide mascot for the electric power industry. I seem to remember that it was used by Public Service Co of New Mexico back in the 1960's, maybe 1970's.

 

[Dinerman]

wikipedia says he's been around since 1926.
this pin is obviously much later.

I didn't know there were pins either, which is part of the reason he came home with me.

 

[Solid Citizen]

Ready Kilowatt

Ready had a friendly comsumer personality featured on pens, lapel pins, business letterheads. etc.. He was like a power industry Disney "type" character. I remember seeing large life like cuts outs of Ready afixed to the facades of electrical substations etc. of the 1950's period.

SC

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

I think Mr. Kilowatt was around until some time in the 70's. Here we have always had a power company simply known as, "The Illuminating Co." and Reddy was always spokesman.
I guess he got lost in the shuffle of all those power companies reorganizing. [huh]
Alas,...poor Reddy,....

 

[PeeWee]

I remember Reddy Kilowatt back in the early 50's. My granddaddy had a lot of Reddy stuff, and the most memorable was a Reddy Kilowatt puppet made out of balloons and cardboard. When my brother and I would go to his house to visit, my granddaddy would sit under a dark stairwell and have Reddy do a little jig out in a dimly lit hallway. It scared the dickens out of us I must have been about 4, and my brother around 6. I believe my mama still has a Reddy Killowatt pot holder somewhere.

 

[Avalon]

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LILCO's mascot would have been a cross between Dracula and a Robber Baron sucking the money out of the consumer.

Hurricane Gloria, anyone? lol

 

[BegintheBeguine]

love 'em. that marlin looks so happy to be holding someone's tie.

 

[Johnnysan]

Back in my younger,thinner days as a lineman's apprentice with the Rural Electric Cooperative, our hard hats and trucks carried the image of Reddy's cousin, "Willie Wirehand."

 

[Orgetorix]

I think Mr. Kilowatt was around until some time in the 70's.

I still see local electricians' trucks with him painted on the side. Mostly in Ohio, where my family live.

 

[Mr Maltby]

Originally Posted by Maj.Nick Danger
I think Mr. Kilowatt was around until some time in the 70's.

So were Bobby Darin, Louis Prima, and Louis Armstrong...its a conspiracy.