Anglo-American communications studies

[Reese]

At 02:16 AM 1/5/01 -0800, petro wrote:
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 >>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