Some More on Reddy Kilowatt

I did some more research on good 'ol Reddy.

This from Wikipedia.

He was created at the Alabama Power Company by Ashton B. Collins, Sr. and debuted March 11, 1926, and was licensed to around 300 electric companies. In 1947, he had his own comic book created by the Walter Lantz Studio, the same good folks who brought us Woody Woodpecker.

In 1998, he was bought by the Northern States Power Company who created the Reddy Kilowatt Corporation to manage the cartoon.

He was featured on an episode of Roseanne and had a brief clip on the Star Wars spoof "Hardware Wars." Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead uses him for a mascot.

Over the years, Reddy has become closely associated with the use of power (probably a big hero of Tim the Toolman, let's  make his sounds right now), but has never caught on with the conservation folk.

I checked out e-Bay today and found 97 items of Reddy-related stuff including ash trays, playing cards, wrist watches, earrings, belt buckles, metal tokens, cookie cutters, lapel pins, Zippo lighters, and patches.

Sure Didn't Know All this Stuff. --RoadDog