AC Memories & Facts
We are still without central AC but are enjoying the wonders of a few window units. This, what we hope is only a temporary solution, reminds me of visiting my aunt and uncle.
When I was a young warthog we would come back from Central America and visit Uncle Frank and Aunt Peggy in Victoria, Texas (located in South Texas). It was hot in Victoria, Texas during the summer. Uncle Frank and Aunt Peggy had a large window AC unit in the living room of the house. Care to guess where everyone hung out? You’d walk into that room and would not want to leave.
It’s funny the memories you have. I remember that AC unit and I remember they didn’t lock the door to their house. My grandpa in Coquille, Oregon never locked his car doors when we would run errands around town. I remember thinking - a perspective heavily influenced from living in Central America - wow, what a great place to live. You don’t have to lock the door to your house.
Where we lived people were always breaking in to your house or car. In fact, my mom would hang out clothes on the line to dry in the back year and without fail the next week I would see someone walking down the street with my shirt on. “Hey, cool shirt, I have one just like . . . wait a minute!”
Until our AC is repaired I will share a daily fact about the history of AC (yes, once again the blog is your source for entertainment and educational enrichment).
1882 — Thanks to Thomas Edison, the first electric power plant opens in New York, making it possible for the first time to have an inexpensive source of energy for residential and commercial buildings.
3 Responses to “AC Memories & Facts”
I grew in the country, on a farm, and can remember having no AC at all, just fans. One year, my dad won a window unit at the local Rural Electric Association picnic. He and my mom did not want to install it for fear that being in the house with the coolness and then going out to the field in the heat every day would make everybody sick. So…………he traded it for a window fan, a recliner, and a few other items. Don’t know how we survived, but we did!
You were in Central Florida last year. Imagine living there for 8 years w/out AC! We had central air in the house we rented, but the unit was so old we could not afford to run it over a couple of hours a week, so we’d use it only when company was over. And then during the day. At night we opened windows, company or no company.
Do get that AC fixed, okay? That is REALLY important.
BTW, our high was about 60 today. People really want summer to come soon, even though we have no AC.
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