Duke Energy’s Charlotte, N.C., headquarters houses thousands of old photos from Florida to Ohio and Kentucky to 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 218: Who is this Piedmont Natural Gas executive? What was he responsible for?
Photo 232: We know this is Bob Willis, Duke Power’s former company photographer. We heard he used to travel to sites with his dog in a Volkswagen. Is that a true story? Do you have any memories of him?
Photo 236: Who are these Florida Power employees? Do you know when this was taken or what they did for the company?
Photo 245: It looks like this Carolina Power and Light employee is helping a customer pay his bill. Do you know who she is or where she worked? Or the timeframe?
Mysteries solved!
Duke Energy employee Angie Doerman recognized Viola Kelly in photo 225. She said she’s likely feeding meter reading punch cards into the computer in the early 1990s, but the punch cards had many different purposes at Cincinnati Gas and Electric at that time.