PRAISE JEEBUS! A/C is fixed at work.
@LiberalLibrarian I was seven years old and visiting the Empire State Building with my grandmother. We were in the elevator. It was summer. They hadn't invented air conditioning yet, or deodorant. I was nose high to all the men's armpits. It was a long way up. Air conditioning is one of life's miracles.
@LiberalLibrarian It's memories like this one that make me feel a million years old. I doubt many here on CoSo would recall these times or have an appreciation of what it was like to live when people really stank.
@elbutterfield @LiberalLibrarian
And what were the smoking restrictions like in the Empire State Building back then? Mine was the last generation with smoking sections in bars and restaurants made grimy and blue- or yellow-hazed by the smoke. I bet the full-body reek of smokers didn't help much in even more enclosed spaces.
@elbutterfield @LiberalLibrarian
Sometimes I *think* I want to travel to the past, but then I review my options and I'm generally of the opinion that, nah, I'm good. 😬
I don't mean to go all Panglossian, but the world we live in today would seem like sorcery to Voltaire.
@LiberalLibrarian @MLClark Just learned a new word! Panglossian. I like it!
My beloved tÃo Rene was a heavy cigar smoker. (Cuban, so of course.) I still remember the smell.
@MLClark @LiberalLibrarian You've got that right, and it wasn't the cigarette smokers as much as it was the cigar and pipe smokers. That smoke lingered and clung like nothing else.