I never had a/c until I moved out and on my own. My parents had a/c in their room. That was 1970. I am 51 or 52, I keep forgetting. Roy
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I never had a/c until I moved out and on my own. My parents had a/c in their room. That was 1970. I am 51 or 52, I keep forgetting. Roy
Hmmmmmmmmmm........1978 or so...and I'm not telling my age.
my answer is about like seniors
I can remember several places(Texas) where there was no AC,and really no reason for it.I can remember shutting the windows "to keep the heat out."
Houses are built differently now.
My dad was an HVAC contractor for his whole life. I can't ever remember living in a house without A/C. We had it in the early 1960's.
When I moved to Texas... never had it in Colorado. But I was sure as heck glad I had/have it in TX.
I was born in Upstate New York and never had a/c. We barely even had heat (old radiator type) but when I moved to Florida in '79 I have never lived in a placewith out it. Some had old window shakers but atleast there was always some type of cooling. Hell, even when I worked on the boats commercial fishing for 10 years, half of them had a/c in the cabin.
Well, Don't you rembember flopping you pillow over to feel the cool side? In some ways, I'm glad things are not like the Old Days.
I grew up on a dirt road. Was about 10 years old when we got our first window unit.
I didn't live in a house that even had ductwork til I was 24,they either hot water or steam, but as a kid growing up it was space heaters in cramped little apartments. Hard to tell how many brain cells I lost due to CO while growing up, luckily the houses were pretty porous and not sealed up like todays homes.
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Originally posted by ipic
When I moved to Texas... never had it in Colorado. But I was sure as heck glad I had/have it in TX.
In 1962 my Dad bought us an 18,000 btu Friedrich window unit from the old White's store in Houston and he insatlled it in our den and it keep a 4-bedroom house cold.
By the way I was 12.
When we got married in 1967 we got an apartment on Broardway in the city of Rennsellaer New York. The rent was $60. dollars a month which included steam heat. Unfortunately it was a second floor apartment. Not far from the Hudson River so the humidity was like 300% :)in the summer. Plus it was on the main throughtafare so we couldn't open the front windows.
Being a newly wed I wanted some at least every night so I sprung for a 6,000 BTU unit for the play room. (bedroom).
It cost over a hundred dollars back then.
My mother had central A/C put in our ranch house in 1973 because my father was ill. It was a Spacepak high velocity system which worked very well for 31 years. I bought the house from my mom in 1982, and was nursing the A/C along for the last 5 years or so, but this year I finally bit the bullet, and replaced the entire system. I hope my new one lasts as long...