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Joan, 1945

From Jack's photos

We didn't get air conditioning until we moved to this house in the suburbs of Kansas City in 1959.
With one tree in the neighborhood we needed it.

Before that we relied on fans:

Electric

And manual

On porches and patios, and living outside

Betty R. on her patio on Russet Lane

July 1949

Sundresses on Ben and Cele's patio on Russet Lane

On getting out of the city onto or into the water

1930

Ben on left with friends at Fort Salonga on Long Island

1935

Cele (right) and a friend at Eagle Bay in Old Forge, New York

About 1950

Barbara, Ben, Bill and Uncle Eddie

On going to the movies, which were "cooled by refrigeration."

And on ice cream from the Carvel.