6 Jan
2001
6 Jan
'01
6:03 a.m.
At 02:16 AM 1/5/01 -0800, petro wrote:
Actual boiler-type furnaces are quite rare in the US, and
No they aren't. Out of 5 apartments I lived in in Chicago, 4 of them had steam heat. So did the apartments of most of my friends.
My grandmother's house in Saint Louis has/had a boiler and steam heat.
The hospital in the town I grew up in had one for heating, and emergency power in case of brown/black-outs. It was functional and operating, when as a lad of 15 or so, I ventured down to the basement one day. Figure mid 1970s, for timeframe. Reese