Decades before air conditioning became a must have item in homes, cars and businesses, Sarasota was referring to itself as The Air Conditioned City — fanned by gentle gulf and bay breezes that wafted coolly through the community, making the hottest day in August a pleasant experience in comparison to our northern brothers and sisters who were dropping like flies.
“Beat the Heat! Stay in Air-Conditioned Sarasota where it’s C-O-O-L.!”, reporting that while New Yorkers were suffering sunstrokes and Washington, D.C. was sweltering through 98-degree afternoons, we were “enjoying a temperate 87 degrees.”
