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[dsrtrace]

Would there be an Asia economy without A/C? I was part of a management team for 3 plants in Asia. The primary reason employees would work for $4/hr 14 - 16 hours/day, is A/C, breakfast, lunch, & light dinner. The employees would rather work all day instead of returning back to a hot and humid home in the village.

[Elroy Jetson]

Florida is much like Palm Springs, which is very dry but hotter. Only 98 there today, but often 118 which is more comfortable than it sounds and there's no bugs - but it wouldn't be there without air conditioning.

The only reason Palm Springs was inhabitable at all without air conditioning was because it fell in the shade of Mount San Jacinto during the day and it was a natural spring - home to about 300 Indians.

One of the first resorts would close in the Spring and reopen in the mountains at Lake Arrowhead. In Fall the resort would reopen in Palm Springs.

Around the same time Julia Tuttle bought a square mile section of land, 640 acres, which is now Miami and spent five years trying to convince Henry Flagler to extend his railway line to her property. A few years after the railroad had been built, the population of Miami was less than 1,700.

It's not likely that all of them were year round residents, apart from the citrus growers.