HudsonHawk
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Great thread to be resurrected...
I grew up in Florida without A/C at home. And this was in the 70's and 80's. When you didn't have it, you just didn't know what you were missing. We found ways to try to keep cool...lots of windows in the house (jalousie type windows that you could keep open even in a rainstorm) and fans. It was the worst at night. We'd wet the sheets down and turn the fan on, that helped. When it was really hot, we'd just sleep on the terrazzo floor. It was always 20 degrees cooler than the air temperature.
We also didn't have A/C at school, though they had it at the high school by the time I got to the 10th grade. The back of every classroom was windows floor to ceiling, and there was a giant draw fan at the front of the room. When it was on, you couldn't hear yourself scream, and papers blew everywhere.
I grew up in Florida without A/C at home. And this was in the 70's and 80's. When you didn't have it, you just didn't know what you were missing. We found ways to try to keep cool...lots of windows in the house (jalousie type windows that you could keep open even in a rainstorm) and fans. It was the worst at night. We'd wet the sheets down and turn the fan on, that helped. When it was really hot, we'd just sleep on the terrazzo floor. It was always 20 degrees cooler than the air temperature.
We also didn't have A/C at school, though they had it at the high school by the time I got to the 10th grade. The back of every classroom was windows floor to ceiling, and there was a giant draw fan at the front of the room. When it was on, you couldn't hear yourself scream, and papers blew everywhere.