TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY'S INTENTION TO HEAT AND COOK VIA ELECTRIC COILS..........RED METAL FIRE COILS, REPLACING THE WARM ARMS OF CARY GRANT AROUND THE GIRDLED WAISTS OF AMERICAN HOMEMAKERS



DURING THE MID-CENTURY PROMOTION OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY'S PROSELYTIZING 'ALL ELECTRIC POWER'......THE RELATIVE CHEAPNESS OF 'ELECTRICITY' GOT EVERYONE IN NORTH ALABAMA 'OFF THE WOOD AND COAL' AND 'ONTO THE RED HOT METAL COILS" OF ELECTRIC STOVES.......DURING MY SENIOR YEAR OF COLLEGE, I FIRST USED A GAS STOVE; HOWEVER, IT WAS NOT UNTIL TEN YEARS AFTERWARD THAT I COOKED OVER A FLAME........i REMEMBER THE PROPAGANDA FOR 'CLEANER LIVING THROUGH ELECTRICITY' IN THE 1950'S......AND, IT WAS NOT UNTIL i DROVE INTO ROME, GEORGIA, AND WITNESSED THE ENORMOUS PILES OF COAL THAT WERE BEING INCINERATED TO MAKE 'ELECTRICITY' FOR GEORGIA POWER...DID I REALIZE THAT, FOR THE MOST PART, ELECTRICITY WAS NOT 'CREATED' ONLY FROM WATER, RUNNING THROUGH ENORMOUS TURBINES........I'M 'COOKING WITH GAS' NOW, OF COURSE.....AND HAVEN'T HAD AN 'ELECTRIC RANGE' IN MANY DECADES.. other than a 'MICROWAVE OVEN'.....DOES A "CELL PHONE" COUNT, AS ONE? ....MY 'POINT'? ISN'T IT CLEAR?....OF COURSE NOT.....THERE IS NO 'POINT" TO A SLEDGEHAMMER......'ROLL' CAMERAS....HERE COMES BETTY FURNESS HAWKING ELECTRIC DEEP FREEZERS FOR $234.95! I GUESS I'M NOT "ON TREND" WITH THESE, EVEN....THERE"S A "CHEST" FREEZER IN THE BASEMENT.......AND NO FUTURE AS A "MOVIE STAR"....... [ i can 'blame' this rambling verbiage on James Burke's CONNECTIONS and TOMORROW'S WORLD......Mr. Burke demonstrated in his TV Series, Connections, that everything is connected to everything else,...in the Big Picture....didn't he?] All one has to do is turn some knobs to be a Kitchen Star..........Ronald Colman's making the Maxwell House coffee, since "Beulah" and "Hazel" left to study Thermodynamics at MIT.....


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