Re: Air conditioning - we didn't have an air conditioner until I was about 11 or 12 years old. Before that, my dad used to put a huge fan in the living room window every summer. It was made of steel and had to weigh at least 50 pounds
Same here SC. We just had 1 window unit in my parents bedroom. The Col's Grandma had one of those 50lbs fans in KY. I'll you tell you what that thing really cooled the house down good when she turned it on.
Re: Television - No cable then. We had 6 or 7 over the air broadcast channels and some would go off the air each night at 11:00 p.m. before coming back on at 6:00 a.m. If you tuned to those channels when they weren't broadcasting you'd probably see a test pattern.
If the President was on your night was shot. We never got cable till I was a senior in high school. And the remote wasn't wireless it had a phone wire hooked to it.
Did anybody else use a tv tray as a tv stand?
