OT Where did they go?

[hkestes41]

OK you have to read this using the best Andy Rooney voice in your head.

FENDER SKIRTS'.

I came across this phrase yesterday 'FENDER SKIRTS.'

A term I haven't heard in a long time, and thinking about 'fender skirts' started me thinking about other words that quietly disappear from our language with hardly a notice like 'curb feelers' And 'steering knobs.' (AKA) suicide knob.

Since I'd been thinking of cars, my mind naturally went that direction first.

Any kids will probably have to find some elderly person over 50 to explain some of these terms to you.

Remember 'Continental kits?'

They were rear bumper extenders and spare tire covers that were supposed to make any car as cool as a Lincoln Continental.

When did we quit calling them 'emergency brakes?'

At some point 'parking brake' became the proper term. But I miss the hint of drama that went with 'emergency brake.'

I'm sad, too, that almost all the old folks are gone who would call the accelerator the 'foot feed.'

Didn't you ever wait at the street for your daddy to come home, so you could ride the 'running board' up to the house?

Here's a phrase I heard all the time in my youth but never anymore - 'store-bought.' Of course, just about everything is store-bought these days. But once it was bragging material to have a store-bought dress or a store-bought bag of candy.

'Coast to coast' is a phrase that once held all sorts of excitement and now means almost nothing. Now we take the term 'world wide' for granted. This floors me.

On a smaller scale, 'wall-to-wall' was once a magical term in our homes. In the '50s, everyone covered his or her hardwood floors with, wow, wall-to-wall carpeting! Today, everyone replaces their wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors. Go figure?

When's the last time you heard the quaint phrase 'in a family way?' It's hard to imagine that the word 'pregnant' was once considered a little too graphic, a little too clinical for use in polite company, so we had all that talk about stork visits and 'being in a family way' or simply 'expecting.'

Apparently 'brassiere' is a word no longer in usage. I said it the other day and my daughter cracked up. I guess it's just 'bra' now. 'Unmentionables' probably wouldn't be understood at all.

I always loved! going to the 'picture show,' but I considered 'movie' an affectation.

Most of these words go back to the '50s, but here's a pure-'60s word I came across the other day - 'rat fink.' Ooh, what a nasty put-down!

Here's a word I miss - 'percolator.' That was just a fun word to say. And what was it replaced with? 'Coffee maker.' How dull. Mr. Coffee, I blame you for this.

I miss those made-up marketing words that were meant to sound so modern and now sound so retro. Words like 'DynaFlow' and 'Electrolux.' Introducing the 1963 Admiral TV, now with 'SpectraVision!'

Food for thought - Was there a telethon that wiped out lumbago? Nobody complains of that anymore. Maybe that's what castor oil cured, because I never hear mothers threatening kids with castor oil anymore.

Some words aren't gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most, 'supper.' Now everybody says 'dinner.' Save a great word. Invite someone to supper. Discuss fender skirts

Someone forwarded this to me. I thought some of us of a 'certain age' would remember most of these.

[1940plymouth]

Here are a few products from the same period of time that you don't see anymore

Carter's Little Liver Pills

Ipana toothpaste Bucky Beaver

Sloan's Limiment

Black Label Beer "Mable, Black Label"

My wife and I still use the word supper for the evening meal.

We both grew up on dairy farms, so I guess that is one of the reasons why

Also how about the Timax (sp) commericial where John Cameron Swayze would day, "takes a licken and keeps on ticken"

[BobT-47P15]

Miller High Life, the champagne of bottled beers.

Arthur Godfrey advertising Sylvania tv's.

Groucho Marx show sponsored by DeSoto.

[Dennis Hemingway]

I still use a percolator in our trailer. Nothing beats the smell and sound of Coffee being perked in the morning.

Dennis:D

[Jim Yergin]

I often wonder how old you have to be to know why its called "dialing" a phone?

Or "tuning in" a TV show?

Jim Yergin

[greg g]

remember when if you installed a new radio you had to trim the antenea????

ignition file is not a location on your computor.

Janice Joplin sang of Dailing for Dollars on the radio

When you sent for stuff from the Speigles catalog it came from Chicago 9 ILL.

How long before can openers become obsolete?

Have you tried to find ink for your Fountain Pen lately??? Or cartridges for you Papermate?

[hkestes41]

Remember when you were the remote control?

Had 3 TV channels on the TV and you knew exactly where they were on the dial so when dad told you to ghange the channel you would just spin it to the right spot. Which always prompted a "Stop that you are going to break the damned thing."

[BobT-47P15]

And when those stations were off the air, you could watch the test

pattern that appeared on the screen.

[hkestes41]

And when those stations were off the air, you could watch the test

pattern that appeared on the screen.

Yep Channels 7 - 12 and 16. Always got the National Anthem at the end of the evening before they signed off.

Channel 7 in Pittsburgh had to have just enough aluminum foil on the rabbit ears and turn them just right on top of the TV to get rid of all the snow.

[1940plymouth]

How about Annette on the original Mickey Mouse Club?

Also Spin and Marty and Toby Tyler

All along time ago now

[greg g]

[1940plymouth]

Greg,

How about the "Wired Woodshed" on WSYR-AM" 770?

[PatS....]

Having supper at the kitchen table with the rest of the family and no TV in the room.

[greg g]

Featuring the stories from Upcountry and Downcity with Deacon Doubleday.

And the 5:00 PM radio news with Fred Helliges (or as my father in law called him Fred Fullagas) but it was 570 on the dial.

Are you a transplant from CNY?? My wife's sister relocated to Kingston in 73 or so, now lives in Highfalls.

[Frank Elder]

If your'e out of Schlitz, your'e out of beer!

I'd rather fight than switch! Tareyton

The Hamn's bear comes out at quittin' time!

Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should!

Aw for crying out loud, their all commercials, for the love of Pete!

I yam what I yam I,m Popeye the sailor man! TOOT TOOT

[1940plymouth]

Yes, we lived just outside of Hamilton for about 16 yrs, I am from the Plattsburgh area, but my wife is from the Hamilton area

I knew better, when I reread the post that I had put the wrong numbers for the radio station

[Niel Hoback]

Sometimes I go to the ice box and get a soda pop to drink sitting on the davenport.

Yeah, my dad had a remote for the tv back in the early fifties; me with a pair of pliers to change the channel because the bakelite knob was broken.

Along with the muffled cries of "#$%$^#@$% clinkers" coming from the basement was the phrase " who took the pliers?"

[greg g]

The Admiral Halo light black and white Television. And what about the clingy plastic prismatic sheet you put o your B & W set to simulate color TV.

Whose got any 16 RPM albums????

[Niel Hoback]

Greg,,,,,,,,, Winkie dink.

[greg g]

wink wink nudge nudge, didn't think you cared......................

I believe you are correct. and we are both showing our age.

[Furylee2]

You'll wonder where the yellow went, when you brush your teeth with "Pepsodent".

[Frank Blackstone]

I bought at an antique store for 5 .00 and she loves it. Chrome plated nickle or copper that makes the best coffee. So what if you have to clean the filter instead of throwing away the paper disposable filter.

it is nice to be around you guys that remember all that nostalgia stuff.

[Don Coatney]

The Admiral Halo light black and white Television. And what about the clingy plastic prismatic sheet you put o your B & W set to simulate color TV.

Whose got any 16 RPM albums????

I have some 78's, 45's, 33's, but no 16's that I recall.

[Rodney Bullock]

Leave it to Don to make a small tear fall from my eye.

My moms favarite words. "You have me at my wits end"

what happened to trailway wagons, skates that need a key.

PF flier's and blue tip sneakers

Riding the running board, we did that on my grandfathers truck all the time:) sweet! Riding in the back of an open pick -up truck in the summer.

Doing my school shopping out of the speigal catalog.

The blue clock radio with the alarm. At 7:15 you would hear And now the message of hope. I would stand there and listen to this gentleman and this would acyually shape my day. wook radio 1430 AM then The Tempations or some motown group would come on.....time for school.

[james curl]

OT Where did they go?

The same place our youth went, except they will be found again by another generation.