On: American Summer: Before Air-Conditioning (1998)

[loso]

This is the truth. I use to live in Louisiana outside of New Orleans for 4 years and it was very humid all of the time. But the past 5 years I have been living in Harlem and the humidity and heat feel a lot worse in NY even though as far as the thermometer says the heat is no where near as bad as it used to get down south.

[mamoswined → loso]

I grew up in Georgia and my mother was too cheap for air conditioning. It doesn't even compare to the misery of riding the NYC subway in July.