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How did we survive?
Posted on 5/8/14 at 4:07 pm
Posted on 5/8/14 at 4:07 pm
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I'm linking to the FR post instead of the Original because I love some of the comments from older folks who grew up in the 50s.
Enjoy.
I'm linking to the FR post instead of the Original because I love some of the comments from older folks who grew up in the 50s.
Enjoy.
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Posted on 5/8/14 at 4:21 pm to Zach
My dad had a remote control for the tv back in the Seventies - Me.
He never had to get up. His remote would even rotate the antennae so the picture would come in clearer.
He never had to get up. His remote would even rotate the antennae so the picture would come in clearer.
This post was edited on 5/8/14 at 4:22 pm
Posted on 5/8/14 at 4:37 pm to Zach
Yeah, well, I know it had been invented when I was a child but very few families in Louisiana had air conditioning.
THAT was the best change in my lifetime.
THAT was the best change in my lifetime.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 4:47 pm to Rex
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Yeah, well, I know it had been invented when I was a child but very few families in Louisiana had air conditioning. THAT was the best change in my lifetime.
Rex, was it a window unit? Did your family shut certain doors to keep the air confined because it couldn't cool the whole house? That brings back a lot of memories during hot summers in South La.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 4:51 pm to Zach
Big giant attic fan with all the windows in the house open. Lots of air flow but it was still hot and sticky as hell in the summer time.
When trying to sleep I recall constantly flipping the pillow because the bottom unexposed side became the cooler side.
Window A/C unit? That was a luxury few people had.
When trying to sleep I recall constantly flipping the pillow because the bottom unexposed side became the cooler side.
quote:
Rex, was it a window unit? Did your family shut certain doors to keep the air confined because it couldn't cool the whole house?
Window A/C unit? That was a luxury few people had.
This post was edited on 5/8/14 at 4:52 pm
Posted on 5/8/14 at 4:56 pm to Rex
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Yeah, well, I know it had been invented when I was a child but very few families in Louisiana had air conditioning.
Yeah my Dad who was born in 45 said he didn't have his first air conditioning till he got to his dorm at LSU in the early sixties.
I remember when my grandparents were the first in the family to get a microwave that was in the early eighties and many of the tvs we had around the house when I was young didn't have remotes and some where b&w. Our music was on records, I didn't get a cassette player till the mid eighties. Around that time too the family got our first computer, an Apple. And we had those old rotary dial phones. My dad said when he was young all the phones were party line and his family didn't get a tv till he was like ten years.
This post was edited on 5/8/14 at 5:02 pm
Posted on 5/8/14 at 5:03 pm to Rex
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Big giant attic fan with all the windows in the house open. Lots of air flow but it was still hot and sticky as hell in the summer time. When trying to sleep I recall constantly flipping the pillow because the bottom unexposed side became the cooler side.
Exactly what we had. But the attic fan was only for day time use. At night during the summer we had a large window fan in my parent's bedroom. It drew air out causing the air to flow from outside at night. Me and bro opened our window and tried to get some breeze.
Just as you say we had to keep flipping the pillow from our sweat to keep our heads cool. But having the windows open was great in one regard. We got to hear the sounds of night. Insects chirping...the lightening flies flashing. The next door neighbors having a marital argument because their window was open as well.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 5:37 pm to Zach
I remember the single window unit days too. I also remember me and my brother walking up and down the road, collecting bottles, and cashing them in for baseball cards (with gum), a candy bar, and a coke.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 5:40 pm to mauser
No.9 - Pocket calculator - 1970-71 I bought one. Statistics 1 prof said that if you have a calculator you can't use it in this class. Took stat II a couple of years later. Same prof said that if you don't have a calculator, you better get one.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 5:44 pm to Zach
My dad told me when they got first AC ('68 I think), he couldn't sleep because it was so quiet. He was used to the attic fan humming him to sleep.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 5:48 pm to Zach
Was it Faulkner who said that A/C destroyed the fury of the Southern writer?
Posted on 5/8/14 at 6:01 pm to Zach
We had one of these. I don't recall seeing a clothes dryer until the 70s.
TBH, I prefer the attic fan solution unless it gets about mid 90s.
TBH, I prefer the attic fan solution unless it gets about mid 90s.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 6:08 pm to Zach
Thats nothing, survining for tens of thousands of years on the plains of Africa when we were somewhere near the middle of the food chain, didnt know what fire was and the average lifespan was likely around 25 was much more impressive.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 6:11 pm to Roger Klarvin
Thanks.
I don't think that's the point of this exercise.
I don't think that's the point of this exercise.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 6:12 pm to upgrayedd
Posted on 5/8/14 at 6:13 pm to Roger Klarvin
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Thats nothing, survining for tens of thousands of years on the plains of Africa when we were somewhere near the middle of the food chain, didnt know what fire was and the average lifespan was likely around 25 was much more impressive.
Having on the African plains would have been a luxury for us.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 6:21 pm to Zach
Our first Microwave was called a radar range.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 6:27 pm to Beachtiger
quote:That's because it had a magnetron that made microwaves just like a radar. A regular radar will cook anything if the antenna is pointed at it long enough.
Our first Microwave was called a radar range.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 6:29 pm to Zach
The first in home microwave was installed in the home of the CEO of the corporation that controlled the product line. The price a bit under 50K and it was a behemoth in size. The technology off the design came from officers on naval vessels having their medals rise in temperature by the on board radar emmissions of ships.
Posted on 5/8/14 at 6:32 pm to Zach
Anybody else rent a VCR and 3 movies at Jimbo's? That was a regular weekend occurrence at my house.
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