[fieldmarshaldj]

What on earth did people do in the past when cars didn’t have a/c ?

[fwdude]

What on earth did people do in the past when cars didn’t have a/c ?

Left their windows rolled down. This was ALWAYS the case with us as small children.

[Responsibility2nd]

They used common sense. They put blocks of ice on the floorboards. They stopped once an hour. They kept coolers full of drinks. Back in those days - Mama held the baby - it was not kept hidden away in a carseat in the back seat - and so if the baby even began looking distressed, they stopped and made sure it was OK.

[jboot]

My first car didn't have air. It had a black interior, too. I had to put a heavy blanket across the vinyl front seat in summer or the heat would blister the backs of my legs. The rear windows were messed up and couldn't be lowered. Long summer drives were hot, sweaty affairs. I used to always carry an extra shirt to change into when I got to my destination.

it was a PITA but nobody ever died in that car.

[Lera]

What on earth did people do in the past when cars didn’t have a/c ?

Babies usually rode in the front , either in the mothers arms or strapped in a tiny car seat in between the driver and passenger where they could be constantly checked .

Now with all the laws that force babies to ride in the back the parents are not as attentive to what is going on in the back seat and they are being forgotten.

In really hot places your front seat can be much cooler than your backseat even with ac running

[discostu]

Paid attention.

[TalonDJ]

Rolled down more than one darn window and paid attention to their baby.

[miss marmelstein]

The kids sat in the front seat in the old days. Pretty hard to forget about the kid when it’s right next to you.

[Jeff Chandler]

What on earth did people do in the past when cars didn’t have a/c ?

Open the windows.

[luckystarmom]

They didn’t take newborns out in the heat of the day. Used to be babies stayed at home their first 6 weeks.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***What on earth did people do in the past when cars didn’t have a/c ?**

They would roll down the windows, then turn the wing windows and flood the car with air from outside.

Opps, wing windows are no longer placed on cars. Neither are mechanical outside air vents.

Wonder how all families survived till the 1970s without AC.

[dalereed]

“What on earth did people do in the past when cars didn’t have a/c ?”

They spawned humans not useless primadanas!

[goat granny]

Before car AC we went camping out west. The Texas panhandle was hell on earth...with open windows the air was like a blast furnace. It was 110 that day. When we stopped at a gas station, the attendent said we should have been there last week, it was really hot....land was flat and the heat raising off the ground distored homes off in the distance. Texas down my the gulf is nice, but the panhandle sucks big time...back in the 60’s....

[calex59]

What on earth did people do in the past when cars didn’t have a/c ?

We drove around with our kids and they didn't die.