Anyone on here grow up without AC living in south Louisiana?

Me. No electricity. Reading that refrigerator thread really chaps my arse. Show off.

With the setting my Dad insisted on I was pretty close.

I didn't but my paw paw did. He said they'd open the windows and they had fans but it was still hot. They lived on a dirt road and he said everything would get covered in dust when the random two or three cars passed per day.

I grew up in a house that had a window unit in the living room, and one in my parents room. Parents did not run the ac even half of the time.
Had a box fan in my bedroom.

quote:

---

Went to sleep many a night to the sound of an attic fan

---

Not sure if it is a shame these disappeared or not.

Have debated installing one several times.

I couldn't imagine living in this shite hole in the 1800s and early 1900s.

quote:

---

I couldn't imagine living in this shite hole in the 1800s and early 1900s.

---

Scared of vampires?

I grew up in an old shotgun house in the Lower 9th Ward and all we had for moving air in the summer was an old 36" Reed window fan mounted in the last room of the house. That fan had 2 speeds and blew in 2 directions, either into the house or out to suck air through open windows in other parts of the house.

We always had it blowing out to pull air into other open windows. I never had an A/C in any house I lived in until 78 when my then wife was pregnant for our son. She told me if I didn't get A/C she was heading back to live with mama-----------should have let her go then instead of 6 years later.

Once you get A/C, you're spoiled.

If I lived before AC I would have had to move out of the South.

quote:

---

It wasn't that bad back then, global warming has made it much worse.

---

This is true. Average high in central Louisiana in July was only 79 degrees as recently as 1980.