Promo from 1940 reminded people that they could enjoy air conditioning at this theatre

Cool!

The history of air conditioning is interesting (to me, anyway). The technology started as humidity control for printing presses, bc otherwise the paper would get all weird. Then they noticed all the workers would take their lunch breaks in the rooms with ac.
The first businesses to take it commercial/public facing were theaters bc they had the economic justification to be early adopters, since it would draw in more paying customers. Neat little bit of building tech history.

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