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House of Roberts

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17. I never had a house without AC.

Reply to debm55 (Original post)

Sat May 30, 2026, 02:13 PM

12 hrs ago

There was a wall unit in the corner of the den of the little house we lived in until Dec. 1964. We moved into a house with central heat and air then, and us kids spent a lot of time in the basement, which was cooler than upstairs in the summer. Back in those days, I don't remember feeling near as hot when outside, as you would now.
Today, for example, it's 83 with an 88 heat index and 69% humidity. Too hot for me to do anything plus we had heavy rain last night, hence the high humidity.

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Memory Lane, How did you keep yourself cool in the hot summer heat? Running through a sprinkler? the inflatable 4 ring [View all] debm55 14 hrs ago OP

Water hose. LoisB 13 hrs ago #1

Yup... that was about it. Occasionally my Mom would take us to a community pool. hlthe2b 13 hrs ago #3

Yep, that is right. hlthe2b. We didn't have a community pool. So it was the jumping through the sprinkler and the little debm55 13 hrs ago #6

Yeah.. when I say "community" pool, not like an HOA-Subdivision pool, but a city pool 20 miles away... hlthe2b 11 hrs ago #22

Oh, I knew, but living in a Steel Mill town, did not give us a community pool. Carnegie Library in the little town had a debm55 7 hrs ago #23

That was my life too. All the fans did was blow around hot air. If we were LoisB 11 hrs ago #21

Garden hose! johnp3907 13 hrs ago #2

Thank you very much for sharing with us, johnp3907 debm55 13 hrs ago #7

Picking mushrooms and going to the sinkholes. Big Dismal wasa favorite Lochloosa 13 hrs ago #4

Thank you very much for sharing with us, Lochloosa. debm55 13 hrs ago #8

Ice True Dough 13 hrs ago #5

HAHAHAHHHAHAHAHHHAH. OMG. Thank you True Dough. debm55 13 hrs ago #9

uhhhmmm...shrinkage. ret5hd 12 hrs ago #20

No way to keep cool. Just awful unc70 13 hrs ago #10

Thank you very much for sharing with us, unc70, As a kid, we didn't have AC. I agree. , fans did nothing. My husband debm55 13 hrs ago #11

There are cooling small towels : mucifer 13 hrs ago #12

Thank you very much , mucifer. I wil have to try. debm55 13 hrs ago #13

As a kid, I didn't know a damned thing about thermodynamics, so what I did was pretty dumb. NNadir 13 hrs ago #14

Great post, NNadir. We have a Cape Cod house. ---two bedroom/attic upstairs. Even though, we have whole house AC. it is debm55 12 hrs ago #15

That's what I grew up in, a "Cape Cod" house. NNadir 12 hrs ago #16

I remember sleeping outside as the house seemed to hold the heat.Never had AC in the car either . AC was a luxury that debm55 12 hrs ago #18

I never had a house without AC. House of Roberts 12 hrs ago #17

Thank you very much for sharing with us, House of Roberts. Somehow the heat didn't bother me, during the day. but at debm55 12 hrs ago #19

There was a playground, probably about a half mile from our apartment ... surrealAmerican 7 hrs ago #24

slip n slide - great fun jgo 2 hrs ago #25

I lived four blocks from Lake Michigan. greatauntoftriplets 1 hr ago #26

Neighborhood pools open every day, and I was there most days.. Permanut 1 hr ago #27

Sprinkler MIButterfly 39 min ago #28