Yep I lived on the west side for many years up by the lake, and worked over at the Generous Electric for 44 year.
I worked for two of the 4 'big Generals', General Motors (aka Generous Motors) and then General Telephone, missed General Electric and General Dynamics...
General Electric, the manufacturing arm of Nikolai Tesla, seemed to make good, really long lasting products... my parents and I bought a lot of them... appliances, radios, clocks, etc...
I got a laugh when GE got into higher end stereo components. As a consumer oriented company, they knew people expected something physically bigger when paying more, so their GE component AM/FM receiver was like 3 or 4 feet wide! LOL!
( My other big laugh was "Harley Davidson" brand VCRs! )
My girlfriend about 22 years ago was from Erie, PA... it was funny, New Years Eve 1999 I got rid of the old one from Lima and after midnight, start of New Years Day 2000, I met the new one from Erie at the end of the dance party to start the new century... I toured around Erie one day along the coast reading the plaques about War of 1812 lucky happenings and seeing the airport named for a Congressman... there was a B-17 Strato Fortress sitting there that day as I recall...