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Yea and you had to walk up hill both ways through an avalanche in the middle of a hurricane.
School I went to was like many of it's era -- no AC, but those funky windows that open out. The ones we all wanted open for the fresh air when it rained. Sometime in the late 60s when I was about 5th grade, they built new classrooms. Those didn't have windows at all, except for a single escape door in each room. Those classrooms did have AC. But they were really depressing to be in. We were told the reason for no windows had nothing to do with energy efficiency (heck back then no one had even heard of the term "energy efficiency" but so the kids wouldn't waste time gazing out the windows. So that's why they had AC.
And at the time we didn't start school until after Labor and got out before Memorial.
Stores, churches and cars didn't used to have it either. I don't hear anyone complaining that they do now.
That ^^ really doesn't make sense. Air conditioning used to be only for the fairly well off people so it was the norm not to have it. People also didn't complain because they didn't have a microwave/dvd/Roku, etc. I remember many nights as a kid having a hard time sleeping because I was hot and the box fan wasn't cutting it.
Grew up in south Florida. Every public school I attended had A/C. For context, I'm 54. I'm sure A/C was more standard there since you'd literally die in the summer without it.
The middle school I went to had air conditioning in the late 80s. The windows were tiny, though! My elementary school and high school did not have air conditioning. That was in Connecticut. I have no idea if the schools up there have a/c now.
I live in Florida and of course everything has central air, including the schools.
In elementary school, there was this lonnnggg pole with a hook on the end. You inserted the hook into a slot at the top of the window to open and close it. That was our air conditioning.
It was surprising that no birds, bees, or pterodactyls flew in, but that was probably because they knew that a 1950s nun was inside and they didn't want any part of that.
Grew up in south Florida. Every public school I attended had A/C. For context, I'm 54. I'm sure A/C was more standard there since you'd literally die in the summer without it.
Literally? There are many, many people that live in areas without A/C that continue living despite not having air conditioning.
All of my schools have had it... I'm in my 30's... so at least since 1980's in many parts.
Even the old Elementary school I went to WAY out in the boondocks had AC. I attended public school from Florida up to Virginia.. been in many of them and each of them have had AC (and heat).
In Los Angeles A/C started coming in the 60s and expanding after the rebuilding following the 1971 Sylmar earthquake. The entire design went from those large school windows which were needed for the occaisional triple digit temperature days to the prison wall look where a small space capsule window could not be cracked if the system failed.
Both of the elementary schools I attended in the '70s were constructed in 1920, and neither had a/c. They were demolished shortly after I left and replaced with modern structures. The junior high and high school I attended were recently completed and had a/c. All of my children's schools have had a/c.
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