I was born in 1957 and I remember having a water cooler as an air conditioner. The air was blown through water and cooled off. It didn't cool much except the room that it was in and it was a very humid kind of cool. I can remember standing in front of it and how good it felt.
My grandparents lived in a huge old house when I was little. I can remember sleeping on their sleeping porch under a big ceiling fan after a bath and in the heat of the summer. Oh, it felt so good!! It was years and years before ceiling fans became popular in our houses.
Color TV wasn't around when I was born, but we were the first in our neighborhood to get one. I remember everyone coming in to see it. I was in about the 4th grade.
Such simplier times and we didn't have to have so many gadgets. Nobody sat in front of the tv playing games, but were outside playing with the neighbors. We had play houses, tree houses, kick ball in the street, caught fireflies and kept them in a jar!! Great times!!! |