What did people do before air conditioning? (Page 5): Does anyone remember the Big tube that was attached to a side window of the car? I think you put water or ice in it and as you...

FallenOak Loc: St George Utah

archie bunker wrote:

Did it just not get hot in Summer before? Cold in Winter? How did people worldwide survive so that we can all be here now?
Maybe most are a bunch of spoiled pussies?
Yep, that's my theory, and I'm sticking to it!!

Does anyone remember the Big tube that was attached to a side window of the car? I think you put water or ice in it and as you drove it blew cold air into your car. I don't know how to cut and paste here but there are some for sale on ebay. Look up thermador auto cooler.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

FallenOak wrote:

Does anyone remember the Big tube that was attached to a side window of the car? I think you put water or ice in it and as you drove it blew cold air into your car. I don't know how to cut and paste here but there are some for sale on ebay. Look up thermador auto cooler.

Oak, what time frame are we talking here? I'm 73, yet don't recall 'thermador auto coolers'. I looked 'em up and found the following...Cool

https://www.bing.com/search?q=thermadorautocooler&cvid=16a923974a07477084107390ebbf32d5&aqs=edge..69i57j0.10582j0j4&FORM=ANAB01&PC=HCTS

FallenOak Loc: St George Utah

slatten49 wrote:

Oak, what time frame are we talking here? I'm 73, yet don't recall 'thermador auto coolers'. I looked 'em up and found the following...Cool

https://www.bing.com/search?q=thermadorautocooler&cvid=16a923974a07477084107390ebbf32d5&aqs=edge..69i57j0.10582j0j4&FORM=ANAB01&PC=HCTS

I remember seeing them in the 40's after WWII and into the 1950's. I grew up in Southern California, northern San Diego county and Elsinore Valley before there were many people living there. Graduated HS in '56. A few people had them but I never rode in any car that had one and I don't know how well they worked. People also hung those canvas water bags on their front bumpers when going on trips.

CarryOn

Mikeyavelli wrote:

Not only survived, we thrived.
I still feel like I'm wussing out when I turn on the air conditioner at home. Feel the weather, it's natural.

Yup. Definitely thrived. I was a farm kid and we worked in the fields out in the heat of the summer ... and did not have an air conditioned home to go to at the end of the day. You sat under a shade tree and drank iced tea until you cooled off ... unless you worked until sundown, then the tree was irrelevant. Life was good then.

son of witless

Mikeyavelli wrote:

Old man undershirts without sleeves. Like a very light tank top.

I get it. We did not wear those. Even my Dad never wore those.

Mikeyavelli

CarryOn wrote:

Yup. Definitely thrived. I was a farm kid and we worked in the fields out in the heat of the summer ... and did not have an air conditioned home to go to at the end of the day. You sat under a shade tree and drank iced tea until you cooled off ... unless you worked until sundown, then the tree was irrelevant. Life was good then.

17 years old working in a 125 degree factory over summers to pay for college. Walking out to a 90 degree day was very refreshing. Worked every summer till I got an easy job spiking ties for a railroad repair company. That was the good outdoors. Youth doesn't know heat but for sex.

Tiptop789 Loc: State of Denial

Big Bass wrote:

Ms Macho, do you live in Florida without a/c? Why are you trying to tell everybody how they should live. Where do you communists get off with your bs?

Don't care if you have it or not. Some of you try to make it like "when I was a kid, we didn't have it, just got use to the heat and it was no problem". Well guess what, they have it now and it makes the hot humid summers more bearable. Once upon a time, they didn't have electricity so your fan would be no good. Like I said, I don't care but some of you folks make really dumb comments. Want to talk about some other modern conveniences, how about refrigeration or would you rather go the ice box route?

Big Bass

Tiptop789 wrote:

Don't care if you have it or not. Some of you try... (show quote)

“Some of you have it like…” Do you now think you’re a valley girl?? I bet, with a face like yours, you can stop a horse at fifty paces.

Mikeyavelli

Tiptop789 wrote:

Don't care if you have it or not. Some of you try... (show quote)

Before electricity we all had fancy fans that we wiggled in front of our faces.

CarryOn

Mikeyavelli wrote:

Before electricity we all had fancy fans that we wiggled in front of our faces.

I have a bunch of those!

Tiptop789 Loc: State of Denial

Big Bass wrote:

“Some of you have it like…” Do you now think you’re a valley girl?? I bet, with a face like yours, you can stop a horse at fifty paces.

Typical dumb comment. Want to try again?

Tiptop789 Loc: State of Denial

Mikeyavelli wrote:

17 years old working in a 125 degree factory over summers to pay for college. Walking out to a 90 degree day was very refreshing. Worked every summer till I got an easy job spiking ties for a railroad repair company. That was the good outdoors. Youth doesn't know heat but for sex.

You should be happy for youth, that's what built that condo you stayed while on vacation. It wasn't 70 yr old men that built it.

Mikeyavelli

CarryOn wrote:

I have a bunch of those!

Those look like the ones that the FBI took from Mar-a-Lago.

CarryOn

Mikeyavelli wrote:

Those look like the ones that the FBI took from Mar-a-Lago.

Dang .. you caught me!

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Mikeyavelli wrote:

Those look like the ones that the FBI took from Mar-a-Lago.

Most likely, made in China.