The Cast and the Curious 3: South of Union Square
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The neighborhood South of Union Square is one of New York City’s great
centers of cast iron architecture. This area includes some of the city’s
earliest ...
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From the "Big Apple" to the heart of the Ontario countryside, kids will be kids. Both my husband and myself have photos of ourselves sitting in our mothers galvanized wash tubs on a hot summer day. How else did you beat the heat? My gram (who lived with us) would make homemade ice cream. I used to sit on the retaining wall with my dad and grandad and have watermelon seed spitting contests. The cellar opened from outside the house and if it was really hot I would take a blanket and go down there to cool off. No ac back in the day, just the good old seabreeze fan that could take your hand off if you weren't careful. What were your cooling off tricks?
Lots of fans and the sprinkler in the park across the street, sometimes the Pitt Street pool and of course those glorious visits to Coney Island.
But mostly fans. Lots and lots of fans.
CO - Lordy, what did we do before we had air-conditioning (I'm sitting right in front of the air-con as I write this)?
I was lucky in that we were out in the country most of the time - big lakes, big trees, lots of shade. Nice wading pools in the back yard for when we couldn't get to the lake . . .
Or maybe a day down in the cellar . . . I never even though of getting air-conditioning until I came to New York . . .
T.
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