[Windflier]

We lived in an old house without AC, in north Texas. We had a single water cooler in the living room and that was it.

Man, summers must have been fun back then. I live in North Texas now, and can't imagine life without it.

When I was an Army brat in Okinawa in the sixties, we lived without a/c for a time. It was freaking brutally hot. When Dad finally got us a proper house on base, we felt household a/c for the first time in our lives.

After moving back stateside, I didn't have a/c again until I was in my forties.

[GeronL]

I think its state law now that any rental home/apt must have air conditioning