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.









Just for fun, Pass it along to others of "a certain age"!

things that make you go hmmmm..........

What is a "fender skirt"?

Although I was born in 1964, too young for most of the words your talking about, I do remember several. And even still use some of them. I remember my mother having an Electrolux. Even today no one in my house uses the word dinner, it's still supper. And a bra is still a bra to me. I have never called a coffee pot a percolator, but that dosen't mean I don't know what your talking about.
My mom was almost 40 when she had me and I was always around people more her age, and I have 3 sisters who are older then me, guess that may have had something to do with it.

But what I want to know is this. Does anyone really know what lumbago is? I have heard the word before, but no one as of yet has been able to tell me what it is or was for sure.


PMS



lumbago

I've heard and used all of these termsbefore except lumbago. My dad still makes his coffee in a perculator on the stove. It's the best!

A fender skirt is a rear wheel well cover for a car. Makes the quarter panel flow straight through. Looks good on certain vehicles.

Remember'm ALL...... How about davenport. Clue it;s not a town.

Very good catchme, I remember all of them. Perhaps someday someone will take you to dinner at a Supper Club and put Ethyl in gas tank of their street rod before they pick you up.

This has some cute pictures down the whole thing..

Lumbago- I highlighted it then my lil Y comes up & yahoo gives me a list of choices.
It said lower back pain..

Davenport- couch- sofa!!

& PMS I was born in 1962, I remember them..

Hiya GF!!!

Supper club! hmmmmm Maybe if i ever "dated"

I do remember getting Ethyl & lookin at the price sign being $.38

& My Gramma has their original dial phone with the # as Edgewood 9....

Instead of the 2 #s a the front..

Ethyl at .38 , I remember I used to be able to fill up my Topper, Get a Pepsi & a lg. bag of peanuts to put in it for 50cents & ride all day long. ;;''''''' Does anybody know what a Topper was?

I just won a trivia contest at sturgis with this question: in 1962 harley davidson came out with its first scooter. What was it called? Scream out the answer to win great prizes. Topper!

And right back at ya. Does anyone remember or can tell me what a "growler pail" is or what it was used for?

yaayyy!!
The "growler" was a pail that men would send down to the local bar for more beer..


http://www.thefreedictionary.com/topper

I cheated at the Y thou!

Hi longhair, dlad u won at Sturgis, but you were missinformed on the yr. Mine was a '59.(1st yr) 62 was the last. Now do you know the difference in the yrs??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley-Davidson_Hummer