I can't believe this is almost 100 years ago. I think these guys were built a little different back then also. No AC would be brutal.
We have the one out in the RV. Haven't had to use it for the food/freezer just yet, but we did go out & sit in the camper during one heat wave outage. In fact, Rulzzz & his mom dropped by to check on us old farts, and joined us out there for a bit.
No WAY!!! and kids had to walk up-hill both ways, in the dark.Wonder if they called off school?
Most people farmed back then, so they got up and got their work down early and when it got hot they sat in the shade. Many slept outside on the porch to catch a little air movement, and the houses had large windows to allow in the breeze if there was any. Winter and the cold would have been much worse than summer time for these people. Houses that were always cold and going out to the outhouse in January could not have been worse.
We didn’t have any AC outside of a window AC in our farmhouse when I was growing up. Dad wouldn’t turn it on due to cost. It had to be really hot to do use it. Maybe 1-2 days a year I would sleep on the living room floor to avoid laying in a pool of sweat. You just learned to tolerate it back then. Bale hay with an old 4020 and a year around cab and you opened the windows and door for air flow.
I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s in farmhouses that had no air conditioning. It just got hot, you dealt with it. Lots of days spent in front of fans, doing what you could to try to cool down. Every night we had fans in our bedroom windows, at least bringing in the night air into the house. When my brothers and I were out with Dad in his pickup truck, we’d beg him to turn on the AC, but he’d never do it. He’d tell us, “You’ll just feel hotter when you have to get out.”
