Brimstone Baths, Lake of Fire: Welcome to Summer
by Paula Bosse
NOT from a Chamber of Commerce brochure…
by Paula Bosse
Summer in Dallas is HELL ON EARTH. Welcome, newcomers!
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Cartoon by Dallas Morning News staff cartoonist John Knott — it appeared in the July 17, 1922 edition of the DMN.
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Copyright © 2016 Paula Bosse. All Rights Reserved.
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Our Dallas ancestors were of tougher stock…I can’t imagine surviving the summer without air conditioning. And ice in drinks or water was kind of a luxury, too!
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I would absolutely not have been able to survive these summers without air conditioning. Weather-wise, I should be living in some dark and cool place where it rarely gets above 60 degrees. Summer is not my friend!
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