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Never heard of a swamp cooler. I grew up in the mid Atlantic....In my area at least, in the DC area, I remember around construction sites and road work, before the battery powered blinking lights resting on construction horses they used kerosene lanterns, and black metals balls with a flame at the top of the ball. The balls looked like one of those old fashion hand grenades.
I remember the old 1948 Ford my boyfriend had with a make-shift radio hook-up. He installed the large battery for the radio between the driver and passenger in the front seat. It made it quite inconvenient for us to sit close, or we would get tangled up in the battery wiring, resulting in losing the connection to our 50's music.
Never heard of a swamp cooler. I grew up in the mid Atlantic....In my area at least, in the DC area, I remember around construction sites and road work, before the battery powered blinking lights resting on construction horses they used kerosene lanterns, and black metals balls with a flame at the top of the ball. The balls looked like one of those old fashion hand grenades.
Very interesting. I think swamp coolers are for extremely hot places during humid season. In AZ that's July through September (monsoon season). Swamp coolers are pretty much a thing of the past, though. The casita I briefly rented was old.
Very interesting. I think swamp coolers are for extremely hot places during humid season. In AZ that's July through September (monsoon season). Swamp coolers are pretty much a thing of the past, though. The casita I briefly rented was old.
They're used in arid areas. They add moisture to the air. Some people still use them at least once in a while.
(Off topic scientific side note) - evaporation is also what keep our bodies cool, and the entire planet cool. The lower the humidity the better it works.. Swamp coolers work best in dry climates, but even with high humidity, a fan blowing over a wet towel offers some cooling. So does a fan blowing on your sweat drenched hair and body. (I grew up in Florida, no air conditioning)
I grew up in the mid Atlantic....In my area at least, in the DC area, I remember around construction sites and road work, before the battery powered blinking lights resting on construction horses they used kerosene lanterns, and black metals balls with a flame at the top of the ball. The balls looked like one of those old fashion hand grenades.
Smudge pot road flares. As a kid I always thought they looked so eerie. The glowing fires in the middle of the street with black smoke coming up.
This may already be somewhere in the thread, but it's still a good one.
Name the show that had the first interracial kiss on prime time television
Bonus points if you can name the episode.
Nobody gets any points for naming the actors or the characters they were playing.
I've heard Star Trek cited. However...
The first interracial kiss on television is debated, with several examples identified in the 1950s. For example, Shatner had another interracial kiss more than 10 years earlier on a 1958 episode of The Ed Sullivan Show, when he kissed France Nuyen, a person of Asian ancestry. This was during a scene from the Broadway production of The World of Suzie Wong.[3]
I must become more skeptical. So many things everybody "knows is true" end up not being true at all.
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