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

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Most of the trash here didn't know what air-conditioning was until the first time they walked into they're Foreman's trailer.

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Your a Foreman’s trailer, motherfricker.

Our attic fan blew like s hurricane. Kept us cool through the Louisiana summers.

Yep

Grew up in North La, we didn't have AC until I was about 13. Used the attic fan.

Schools didn't have it either

I had a friend and his dad refused to get an AC unit in the house..They could have easily afforded it..The dad's business partner had enough and payed to have a central system put in the house. I remember going over there and sweating my balls off. I always thought it was strange.

I can remember the first house my parents owned just off Jefferson Hwy between Little Farms and Kenner about 2 blocks from the Mississippi River. We had an attic fan others have written about. The attic fan was located in the hallway in the middle of the house. I remember my parents telling me that the trick was not to have all of the windows opened all of the way. The windows closet to the attic fan should be cracked about an inch or two and the windows further away opened a little more. That meant that outside air would be coming through all the window. The fan speed was adjustable and on high could suck like a sumabitch. Some nights went to bed comfortable and woke up cool. Parents also had to be aware of thunder storms. Then they kept two windows that faced out to the carport open and barely cracked the others.

Later we got two window units. One in my parents bedroom and the other in the kitchen. The kitchen unit was much bigger than the other and together kept most of the house cool.

this thread got me thinking about living in Minnesota. Heat is a piece of cake, but did the old timers managed the winter when it got to -50.

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attic fan

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I had one of those in my first house. When the weather was in between that thing was great. Never thought about the balance of opening the windows, sounds like a great idea.

When I was a teenager, we finally got a window unit AC. It just cooled the living room and the kitchen. We had an attic fan for the rest of the house and at night.