EARLY ACCESS: Rear Window
Added 2023-07-20 14:00:07 +0000 UTC
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When you watch older movies, you can see some architectural details that were everywhere before air conditioning. High ceilings (heat rises). The transom: those little windows above the doorway. That would allow you to move the hot air at the ceiling out into the hallway. (And yes, people would use it to snoop on others. "Transom Peeper" was the term. In some ways, our hyper-connected, fully surveilled world is more private than our lives in the 50's.
N1nth Sh4dow
2023-07-21 17:48:32 +0000 UTCAnother fine Tocci pick!
N1nth Sh4dow
2023-07-21 17:45:03 +0000 UTCYeah, sleeping on the fire escape is a way of dealing with the heat. Old buildings like that wouldn't have air conditioning. There were window air conditioners, and they were pretty popular, but they were also expensive and loud. In old homes, they'd sometimes have "sleeping porches" that were screened-in rooms on the corner of a building, to catch a breeze, and there'd be beds in there for people to sleep. In city apartment buildings you wouldn't have that, so you'd just drag a mattress out onto the fire escape.
Kevin Mowery
2023-07-21 16:15:36 +0000 UTC
