108 Poway
108 Los Angeles
118 Palm Springs
116 Riverside
114 San Bernadino
115 San Fernando Valley
114 Glendale
109 Hollywood
102 Bakersfield
118 Indio
110 Las Vegas
110 Phoenix
104 Tucson
I can't remember ANY temperature ever in Glendale Growing up over 110 degrees even in August or September from 1956 to 1969. The fact that GLENDALE got 114 degrees is pretty scary actually let alone Los Angeles. When I was growing up most cars didn't have air conditioning and most houses didn't either from the 1950s until the late 1960s. If they had anything it was usually swamp coolers that are big fans with water going through fibers so the house usually smelled kind of swampy from the water flowing through what looked a lot like Hay on the 4 vertical sides of the fan cooler unit on the roof. It's the same principle as putting ice in a dish and blowing a fan over it to stay cool. except a swamp cooler cooled by the fan and evaporation of water.
Hopefully when this happened there was also very low humidity which would make it easier to stay alive in these temperatures than high humidity.
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