Content! ‘The Day of Light’ 75 Years of Bringing Light to Oklahoma [


“When I was about 9 years old, my Daddy built us a new house using the good wood that was in our old house. We lived under a tent until it was completed. Daddy put up a wind tower by the new house that produced enough electricity for us to have one small electric bulb burning in the ceiling of each room. It was a lot better than the kerosene lamps we had previ- ously used. Better than that though, was when Harmon Electric ran electric lines in our area north of Granite and we got electricity!” -Norma Lauer, Harmon Electric Cooperative member


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“People’s Electric was within one mile of my parents home Mr. and Mrs. Gentry. Before the war broke out, my dad went to town and my mother bought a refrigerator because we knew we were supposed to get power soon. They stopped the rural line and didn’t do anything for quite a while because of the war. It was quite a thing; people would come in and see the brand new refrigerator not plugged in. They finally got power maybe three years later and my mother plugged in that refrigerator. I remember seeing them putting up the poles and everything. I saw them stringing the wires to bring the electricity in. It sure was a great thing when it finally got to us.” -Gladys Rogers, Rural Electric Cooperative member


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“I do remember when the light came on. Darkness and inconvenience were gone, the kerosene lamp packed away. The wooden icebox replaced with a new electric model. No more hand-milking cows in the dark.” -G. Harrison King Jr., Cotton Electric Cooperative member


”When I was a kid, we had an oil lamp. We would always blow the light out and then jump into bed while we could still see.” Gene Grayson, East Central Oklahoma Electric Cooperative member


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