Even here in sticky, humid-as-hell, dogbreath Memphis
I stayed at my great grandmother’s house one summer night during a fire department strike, when my parents were in the hospital.
The house was built in 1904., before air conditioning, but with an attic fan, window fans kitchen fans, and portable electric fans, Because it was built in the era of fans, the ceilings were 10’-6” (3.204 meters) which is lower than older homes, before the era of fans).
It was also the anniversary of the death of Elvis, So the radios were all playing old Elvis songs, It was hot, but I took a bath in a big, old clawfoot bathtub, and slept with a fan blowing my mind as I took up the ambiance of a moldering old house on a hot, sticky summer night.
I wouldn’t mind just a few hot nights like that, without A/C if the house was appropriate.