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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIt's still amazing to me to live in a place where it is routinely over 100, and even 110 degrees,
and I can enter a store and purchase ice.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)I'm thankful for central air conditioning.
kairos12
(12,849 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)right now. Clouds coming in,should knock that down a few degrees. Hottest week of the year on average this next week.
kairos12
(12,849 posts)Way worse Tuesday and Wednesday 115 degrees.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,243 posts)"don't forget your bucket......
ellenfl
(8,660 posts)Zorro
(15,730 posts)Ferocious thunderstorms daily for the past week around Tampa. The heat and humidity is great for the skeeters.
kimbutgar
(21,103 posts)Then she said she was coming out to San Francisco to visit us. Shes sick of the heat. I always end up loaning her my jackets.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I wilt when it goes about 75, and it frequently is here in New England in the summer. When it's hotter than that you will find me inside my air-conditioned apartment until the temps go down. I hate feeling sweaty. The humidity is especially brutal.
yellowdogintexas
(22,243 posts)been that way all week
Sure has messed up my canvassing and blockwalking
LeftInTX
(25,201 posts)It zaps my energy.
I went out around noon, came back at 1:15. Didn't shower cuz I made calls for Mike Collier. Then went out again at 6 pm. Not showering in between was the worse part.
Staying home today.
GoneOffShore
(17,339 posts)LeftInTX
(25,201 posts)https://www.expressnews.com/life/life_columnists/paula_allen/article/City-was-hotbed-of-cool-technology-10891636.php
The irony: San Antonio was one the last cities to have indoor plumbing. By 1950 over 100,000 residents still had no indoor plumbing.
Brother Buzz
(36,407 posts)Thanks, largely to the 'Blue laws' of the day; grocery stores were closed on Sunday, Ice plants had to remain open seven days a week.
In 1927, Southland Ice Company employee John Jefferson Green began selling eggs, milk, and bread from one of 16 ice house storefronts in Dallas, with permission from one of Southland's founding directors, Joe C. Thompson, Sr.[7] Although small grocery stores and general merchandisers were available, Thompson theorized that selling products such as bread and milk in convenience stores would reduce the need for customers to travel long distances for basic items. He eventually bought the Southland Ice Company and turned it into Southland Corporation, which oversaw several locations in the Dallas area.[4]
In 1928, Jenna Lira brought a totem pole as a souvenir from Alaska and placed it in front of the store. The pole served as a marketing tool for the company, as it attracted a great deal of attention. Soon, executives added totem poles in front of every store and eventually adopted an Alaska Native-inspired theme for their stores. Later on, the stores began operating under the name "Tote'm Stores". In the same year, the company began constructing gasoline stations in some of its Dallas locations as an experiment. Joe Thompson also provided a distinct characteristic to the company's stores, training the staff so that people would receive the same quality and service in every store. Southland also started to have a uniform for its ice station service boys. This became the major factor in the company's success as a retail convenience store
In 1946, in an effort to continue the company's post-war recovery, the name of the franchise was changed to 7-Eleven to reflect the stores' new hours of operation, which were unprecedented at the time.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,336 posts)I spent a few summer months near El Paso. Hot, but the dry heat is more tolerable.