Obsolete
words
I’m old enough now to have outlived a
surprising number of words and phrases.
How many of these do you know?
Transportation: Sunday drive,
vent window, running board, rumble seat, continental kit, fender skirts, curb
feelers, souped up, chopped and lowered, bored and stroked, rolled and pleated,
four on the floor, whitewalls, recaps, fuzzy dice, service coupe, steam roller,
steam shovel, drive-in movie, A&W Drive-in, Howard Johnson, meter maid, caboose
Attire: homburg, bowler,
spats, zoot suit, jodhpurs, galoshes, rubbers, penny loafers, suspenders, hat
veil, pink stuff (hats, shirts, shoes, ties), monocle, bobby socks, girdle, corset,
brassiere, hoop skirt, mink coat
Games: marbles,
Chinese checkers, tiddlywinks, carrom board, croquet, badminton, horseshoes,
canasta, pogo stick, hula hoop
Miscellaneous: double
feature, crew cut, duck tail, delinquent, reform school, flower child, ice
house, ice box, ice man, mechanical typewriter, electric typewriter, word
processor, slide rule, pocket watch, doilies, jukebox, juke joint, soda
fountain, a malt, glass milk bottle (with disposable paper cap), let’s rumble, dial
tone, party line (my house was two rings), telegram, carbon copy, rewind, Kodak
moment, flash bulb, Linotype machine, movie usher (my sister was one, with
uniform and flashlight), black-and-white TV, penny candy, inkwell, blotter,
shaving brush, blueprint, Bakelite
If you know them all, you’re at least as
old as I am and statistically we’re supposed to be dead.
Phil
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