Retro photos: A (rafting) trip down memory lane

Can you ID these old photos?

Duke Energy’s Charlotte, N.C., headquarters houses thousands of old photos from Florida to Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and the Carolinas. However, many of the photos are not properly identified. Help us improve our records by sending us your memories about the photos below. You can send us an email at illumination@duke-energy.com, and please include the photo number or attach the image.

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Photo 416: This 1988 picture is from the Carolina Power & Light collection. Do you recognize the employees in this heat pump training class?

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Photo 417: Another photo from the same Carolina Power & Light heat pump class. Do you know any of these students?

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Photo 419: This is an all-electric kitchen demo from 1968 at Florida Power. Do you know anything about this Reddy Kilowatt kitchen?

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Photo 420: We’re not sure who these employees are, but we know they’re from a Duke Power design engineering team in 1984. Do you have any other details?

Mysteries solved!

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We asked if you knew when the Piedmont Natural Gas headquarters from photo 394 was built, and employees Teresa VonCannon remembered that they moved into the building in July 1980.