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Thread Number: 54216
Minty Westinhouse MobileAire Fan |
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| Post# 766091 6/26/2014 at 05:48 (3,590 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod) | ||
Ain't she Purdy ?
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| Post# 766100 , Reply# 1 6/26/2014 at 06:49 (3,590 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
Boy!
Does that thing bring back some memories!
The years I was in high school (1965-70; Atlanta didn't have middle schools at the time) were years when the South was transitioning to air-conditioning. Most of my school, built in 1954, did not have air-conditioning, and we had those exact fans in every classroom. In '68, an expansion and remodeling program got underway, first with new, air-conditioned areas being built, and then air-conditioning being added to old areas. The fans soldiered on to the bitter end; when I graduated, there were still areas that hadn't gotten A/C. Funny now to think of all that money being spent; the entire school was razed a few years ago to make way for a new middle school. Some of the "new" areas were not thirty years old, and the whole place was built for the ages, in excellent repair. All gone now. Wonder what happened to the fans? There must have been seventy or eighty of them. 
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| Post# 766101 , Reply# 2 6/26/2014 at 07:08 (3,590 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod) | ||
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Ah ha.
Sandy, I forgot about having those in school.
My Aunt had one (MobileAire) in the kitchen at the farm house to keep the poor dear cool. I remember now we also had Large Hunter Box Fans on movable stands. Our Elementary school was built in 1960 and being in New Jersey, there was only really May and half of June to deal with. The High School was built in the early 1922 and is still there. I see now thy have A/C by the roof top units. 
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| Post# 766144 , Reply# 3 6/26/2014 at 09:29 (3,590 days old) by firedome (Binghamton NY & Lake Champlain VT) | ||
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Post# 766147 , Reply# 4 6/26/2014 at 10:02 (3,590 days old) by KENMORE58  (Rhode Island) |
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| Post# 766317 , Reply# 5 6/27/2014 at 09:00 (3,589 days old) by Blackstone (Springfield, Massachusetts) | ||
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