Yes, I had AC growing up, haven't had it since.
My mom told me that she didn't have air condition when she was growing up. She was born in 57 . Did you have AC growing up?
No we didn't have AC but we had room fans Yahoooo!
I am a lot younger that your mom :) but no I didn't have air conditioning growing up ...I didn't even have airconditiioning in my own home until this past summer:) it's a hard knock life for me :)
No A/C til 1970's.
I didn't have any AC until I got my first apartment at the age of 19. The heat didn't bother me when I was younger but I couldn't live with out AC now.
We didnt even have hot water. Or a fridge. Or a washing machine.
Of course that was back in the 1940s when such things were considered luxuries.
My family lived in New Mexico and Texas growing up, however, my parents were old school. Unless the temperature outside hit 110 degrees, dad wouldn't turn on the A/C. We would have fans going and windows open and you just learned how to live in the heat, but it was pretty sticky during the summer months.
It was readily available, and we had it in the house at my moms but never used it. In the months it was hot enough to have a need, that meant I was at the pool, and my mom was either at work or college. At my dad's we had a ceiling fan in his room and the living room, but I preferred my sprinkler.
Alot of times no in this texas heat family couldnt afford the elec bill . No ac. In cars we had till mid 70s
H-How did she survive? No AC? I'd rather jump off a cliff than have no AC.
I grew up in Florida (heat + humidity) without a/c. I moved out before my mom had it installed.
Yep, believe it or not..people existed without airconditioning for thousands of years ... They endured hot AND cold temperatures without any modern day technology .. No insulantion in homes, very inefficient furnaces (IF they even had furnaces), typically a wood stove or even just a simple fireplace was the only heat source in a home...(which is VERY inefficient) but nonetheless, was better than nothing.
Dear Megan Goodgirl,
No...I was born in 1944, and no AC. I do not like air conditioning, and never had it at all until 2011-2015, hot humid Iowa summers very uncomfortable, at least for old folks, without it. Even now in Washington State, no AC...and summer here was lovely, temps up to 99*F.
It's pretty simple, actually, I learned how early on; warm days you spray water on the roof, put a block of ice in front of a fan, take care with window shades, make icy drinks, keep hydrated. If REALLY hot you can always douse yourself with water and just sit in front of the fan, hot weather is fun!
Yes, I grew up with air conditioning (was born in '95--our cars had it too, though it was broken in my grandmother's car). I can't imagine not having it here in Florida.
Iwas born in 1954 and didn't have AC but at that age who really cared and also we didn't have color TV til 1957 but then we didn't lock doors back then and kept car windows open when we shopped, movie matinees on Saturday afternoons were only 10 cents
Definitely not! I was born in 1947; and when I was young, the only places that were air conditioned were theaters.
I was born in a really cold place and moved to a really hot place at around 10 years old, so I'm pretty resistant to temperature by now and the AC isn't usually needed
I don't believe I've ever lived anywhere that needs airconditioning. But funnily enough my husband likes to turn on one that we bought for our bedroom about 10 days in any given year. Sorta chilly climate you might say.