I certainly do remember the heat, and no one mentioned global warming then.
Some very hot summer nights people went down to the beaches to sleep.
It was hot all right.
Those hot nights made it seem impossible to believe that in a few months you would be facing winter northeast snowstorms and then getting blasted with cold NW air after they passed.
Those days you didn't get a few days notice that disaster was heading your way as we do now. Weather forecasting is big business today.
Undoubtably saving lives.-Tom
My grandmother once told me the same year NYC got hit by the blizzard of 1947, the worst of the 20th century, they had one of the hottest summers on record. From one extreme to another in a matter of months. Other than a few mansions in Riverdale and the then brand new postwar luxury high rises built on Park Av, even most well-to-do people didn’t have AC yet. People who suffered in those old walk-up apartment buildings were sleeping on the roofs and fire escapes.