>>5306196People do that out here for novelty and sometimes use pans and actually eat sidewalk fried eggs lol. If you use a metal pan in 110F+ (43C+) air temp the pan will reach in excess of 150F (65C) within an hour out here, almost enough to cook meat.
Air conditioning in Phoenix didn't become common until after WW2 though, when GI's that worked on and trained in WW2 airplanes in Phoenix factories and air bases found the real estate market enticing and decided to settle here. It must've been miserable before that. We have a very large nuclear power plant providing extra electricity to the city now though. It must suck relying on only generators.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AaB-ZJvCM 
