When I was a kid, long before we ever got our first swamp cooler ( evaporative cooler), we relied on a Mathes box fan sitting on the floor. the box fan cabinet was a piece of furniture actually, since it had a highly polished cabinet of Mahogany with inlay, the louvers were alternating teak and cherry. there was a place in the back of the cabinet to place a tray of ice. I didn't know it at the time but my grandfather had made the cabinet for the fan. it had a brass plaque with the mane of Mathes on the the lower front I always thought it was there noting that it belonged to him sine his name was Mathes, but actually that was the company that made the fans he wasn't directly related to Curtis Mathes' but had worked with him as a cabinet maker in the late 1940's as far as I know his fan with the ice tray may have been the only one ever made that way. From what an uncle told me When Curtis Mathes started making televisions he made one of their first cabinets for them.