Power Company Socks
Description: The Shinra Electric Power Company (commonly known as Shinra) is the primary antagonistic megacorporation in Final Fantasy VII. Originally a small weapons manufacturer, Shinra grew into a dominant, authoritarian world government after discovering how to harvest and process Mako, the planet’s spiritual life force, into cheap electrical energy and material goods. Operating out of the massive, dystopian metropolis of Midgar, the company maintains its global monopoly through brutal corporate warfare, scientific experimentation—such as creating the elite military unit SOLDIER—and complete control over the media and infrastructure.
Description: By the mid-1920s, utilities had succeeded in bringing electricity to virtually all major cities and towns in the U.S.; however, rural areas remained chronically underserved. Convinced that the best way to win over frugal small business owners, skeptical farmers, and rural dwellers, was to give electricity a more human face, utility companies came up with Reddy Kilowatt. This cartoon character served as a corporate spokesman for electricity generation in the U.S. for seven decades. He is a stick figure whose body, limbs, and hair are made of stylized lightning-bolts and whose bulbous head has a light bulb for a nose and wall outlets for ears, and proudly announced that he was an "electrical servant."
Description: As businesses thrived and the population grew in Minnesota, several utility companies consolidated and then incorporated in 1906 as Duluth Edison Electric Co. In the early 1920s, several major electric utilities and many municipal and privately-owned plants were still operating in the northeastern Minnesota area, but by 1923, after acquiring and consolidating many regional utilities, Duluth Edison was reformed as the Minnesota Power and Light Co.
Description: A retro-style emblem featuring the outline of Minnesota. A cartoon boy with red arms and a white bow tie is superimposed over the state, pointing outwards. A distressed sign with the text "MPL" is in front of the boy's torso, with his legs visible below. "MINNESOTA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY" text appears at the bottom.
Retro Boy MPL Minnesota Power & Light Company Socks
by Spectrum StudioArt
$14 $20
Description: Power Lube Motor Oil. Smooth as the tread of a tiger. Vintage sign reproduction by Hit the Road Designs.
Power Lube Motor Oil old sign reproduction Socks
by Hit the Road Designs
$14 $20
Remember Kids Electricity Will Kill You - Reddy Kilowatt Socks
by vangori
$14 $20
