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17. I never had a house without AC.

Sat May 30, 2026, 02:13 PM

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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 Yesterday OP

Water hose. LoisB Yesterday #1

Yup... that was about it. Occasionally my Mom would take us to a community pool. hlthe2b Yesterday #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 Yesterday #6

Yeah.. when I say "community" pool, not like an HOA-Subdivision pool, but a city pool 20 miles away... hlthe2b Yesterday #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 Yesterday #23

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

Garden hose! johnp3907 Yesterday #2

Thank you very much for sharing with us, johnp3907 debm55 Yesterday #7

Picking mushrooms and going to the sinkholes. Big Dismal wasa favorite Lochloosa Yesterday #4

Thank you very much for sharing with us, Lochloosa. debm55 Yesterday #8

Ice True Dough Yesterday #5

HAHAHAHHHAHAHAHHHAH. OMG. Thank you True Dough. debm55 Yesterday #9

uhhhmmm...shrinkage. ret5hd Yesterday #20

No way to keep cool. Just awful unc70 Yesterday #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 Yesterday #11

There are cooling small towels : mucifer Yesterday #12

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

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

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

That's what I grew up in, a "Cape Cod" house. NNadir Yesterday #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 Yesterday #18

I never had a house without AC. House of Roberts Yesterday #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 Yesterday #19

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

Loved those sprinklers at the playground. Thank you for sharing your memory with us.surrealAmerican. debm55 9 hrs ago #32

slip n slide - great fun jgo 21 hrs ago #25

I loved that, jgo. Great fun and wonderful memories. debm55 9 hrs ago #33

I lived four blocks from Lake Michigan. greatauntoftriplets 21 hrs ago #26

That sounds wonderful, greatauntoftriplets. Thank you For the memories. debm55 9 hrs ago #34

Neighborhood pools open every day, and I was there most days.. Permanut 20 hrs ago #27

I am going to have to try that. Thank you very much for sharing, Permanut. debm55 9 hrs ago #35

Sprinkler MIButterfly 20 hrs ago #28

Yes it was , Thank you very much,MIButterfly for sharing the memoring with us. debm55 9 hrs ago #31

Most of July and August gladium et scutum 14 hrs ago #29

Thank you very much for sharing with us, gladium et scutum. I slept outside too. debm55 9 hrs ago #30

I grew up on military posts mainly in the South. Aristus 38 min ago #36