[johnny7]

LOL... remember when retail stores had signs outside bragging that they were air conditioned?

[elcid1970]

“TWENTY DEGREES COOLER INSIDE! C’MON IN, FOLKS!”

;^)

An historical tidbit: when the U.S. first established its embassy in the new Republic of South Vietnam in 1955, it was said that the only window air conditioner in all of Saigon was in the American ambassador’s bedroom.

[Coldwater Creek]

Or, you could set outside in your car and watch the TV’s.

Now that I look back on it, how dumb, you couldn’t hear a word, but cars were lined up to get a space.