Central A/C and Heat
There was no such thing as central air condition. The little house on Texas Street where I was brought home after being born had clunky window swamp coolers. I remember how mother would place me on her bed in front of the water cooler at nap time. The sound would lull me to sleep blocking all other noise. For heat we had floor furnaces. As an infant, I fell onto one and burned my leg. For many years, I had a large scar all the way up my calf in the shape of the furnace grid. Mimi and Pappy had a furnace grid in a small hallway in the center of the house, and we would straddle it to soak up the rising warm air. Central Air came into vogue and was placed in the ‘modern’ home that Mother and Daddy built on 4105 Bismarck Street in 1963.
The picture below was taken in 1955 or 1956 in the backyard of our home on Texas Street in Vernon Texas. This is the swamp cooler Mother would lay me in front of for a nap each afternoon.
