Southern California and parts of the Southwest exist as they do today — populous and prosperous — principally because AC made them livable.
… asked no one living in our scorch-and-sizzle places. Not until the 1950s and ‘60s, anyway, by which time air conditioning altered our lives and living spaces almost as much as electric light and running water.
AC is so consequential that it has its own museum: the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Museum, in a building just below downtown L.A. that’s also a headquarters and training center for air conditioning and related trades. The museum should be reopening its remodeled self next month. It will still showcase “Old Chiller,” the nearly hundred-year-old AC system — green as a sea serpent and almost as big — that once freshened the air at the Huntington Library.
Three months after Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt moved into the White House, in 1933, the nation learned that “The Roosevelt family is going to be comfortable even if it has to stay in Washington in summertime.” Air conditioners were installed in five rooms: FDR’s bedroom, his study, Eleanor’s bedroom , their daughter’s room, and that of FDR’s indispensable adviser, Louis Howe.
For a nation mad about autos, it follows that car AC was one of the earliest consumer uses. The 1940 Packard was evidently first in that luxurious line of “factory air.” In 1944, a “futurist” Times story predicted that every car in the future would have a dashboard radio-telephone , be air-conditioned , and cost $400 .For the longest time, home air conditioning usually meant a noisy box mounted in a sash window.
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