they had no ac?
i didnt see a a/c how did they keep cool in summer
alices lemonade?
Maybe they had central air and you couldn't see it? Who cares?
I didn't see a furnace on the Newhart show in Vermont but they seemed to do OK.
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Most episodes occurred during the school year, so they never addressed what the Beadys did during summer. Except the vacation episodes but those could have happened during spring break.
shareIt aired from 1969 to 1974. In 1975, only about a quarter of American homes had AC. No one would have expected them to have it. It was on uncommon luxury. We lived without it fine.
shareExactly. I thought his question was weird...
shareThey lived in a upper middle class house and had a maid...they had AC.
shareBack then people seemed to survive without air conditioning.
shareI thought the AC invention saved mankind from extinction
shareI wouldn't go that far. People were more hearty back then.
shareI heard the AC was created by an African American slave in the South and it saved many from dying of heat exhaustion. Then the white man took credit for the new invention
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I heard the AC was created by an African American slave in the South and it saved many from dying of heat exhaustion. Then the white man took credit for the new invention
Correct. That was my great grandaddy Rufus "Chill" Washington (son of a slave). The man just couldn't stand the heat. Necessity is indeed the mother of invention. Everyone just told him "Chill, move north where it's cool", but he was a stubborn cuss.
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Was central a/c around then? Even if the rest of the house had it, I doubt the attic would have had it. It must have been really hot up there.
shareBy the 1960s, most new homes in the United States were built with central air conditioning.
https://www.coynecollege.edu/a-brief-history-of-hvac-air-conditioning/
By the late 1960s, most new homes had central air conditioning
https://www.energy.gov/articles/history-air-conditioning share