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Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007
Maybe that 1936-1937 Romanian magazine exagerated with the accesibility of refrigerators in U.S.A. in those years. But I do think that more people could afford them comparing to Germany, France, U.K.
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I will say that more Americans were early adopters of major appliances such as refrigerators, water heaters, central heating plants, and washing machines compared to England, France, Germany, etc. Whether that was due to availability, affordability, I don't know. But I did find it interesting how it was even mentioned in a book from 1914 that the English were resistant to adopt electric washing machines. Even that far back. It's probably more of a cultural thing, if you ask me.
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Originally Posted by Colly0410
BTW we don't have air conditioning, we open windows wide & turn on a fan on the few hot humid days we get in our summers...
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Reminds me of that time y'all were having a marathon in summer, and runners were collapsing from heat stroke, because it was a sizzling 32C. As an American, I had to convert that to Fahrenheit to be sure, it was like 85F. That's hot for you guys, I guess. Many places in America regularly have summer days in the 100s(F), or 40s(C). And I'm not just talking about desert places. Chicago, for example, has freezing cold winters and hot summers. Air conditioning is not necessarily an extravagance. Opening the windows doesn't always cut it.