Dead words that eldergays remember.

Disco

Icebox; phone booth; the want ads; punch the time clock; beeper.

Davenport.

Dinner for the meal at noon.

petting replaced by fisting 👊

Job application; bread box; cassette; leftovers; answering machine; butch; porno mag; *69

Bruce Jenner

Kaftans

"Please" and "thank you"

Mongoloid

Bohemian

Mimeograph

Punch card operator

Mercurochrome.

Bench Seats

Spring House

Milkman

Corinthian Leather

Grip (for luggage). My grandmother used to say "go bring me my grip". She would be 122 years old if she were still alive.

Janet Jackson.

Dungarees

Charga-Plate

[Davenport.]

Which is in the "front room".

Olestra chips.

Retarded

Fag Hag

Pocketbook Poser Siamese twins Gapped

Gypped

Prophylaxis

Latrine

Dropsy

"Tablet" as a generic word for "pill."

Rabbit ears

Ditto paper

Carbon copy

Afternoon/evening paper

Double feature

Festival seating

Bag lady

Wino

Mimeograph

Travel agent/agency

Stewardess

Split-level

Macramé

Parlor

Hobo

Green stamps

Hippie

AYDS (a diet reduction candy)

Children's matinee

Perambulator

Mimeograph

Craigslist

R16 I don't know that one. Had to look it up.

Do blue collar workers no longer have time clocks? If so, I had no idea.

skid row, boarding house, dance card, long-distance call

Mulatto.

R5, some of those are current

R8 has closed the thread. It’s OVAH. Well done, R8!

R32 My great-grandfather was one.

Colored

Oriental

R32 Barack, Derek Jeter, Lenny Kravitz

OP, "dead words"?

Try "words that uneducated people don't know."

Posing pouch

'Weather Bureau" vs todays 'Weather Service"

Roneo

Reverse charge call

Tarvy, which is what they used to call pavement.

Collect call!

Cremora.

Mongoloid.

BM

Oleo. Part of my childhood was spent in Wisconsin where the dairy farmers made it illegal for margarine to sold with yellow coloring so it looked like butter.

If you bought margarine it came in these plastic packets with the white margarine on one side and the yellow coloring on the other side and you had to break the seal between the two sides and squeeze the packet back and forth so that the coloring would mix with the margarine or Oleo as it was called.

Icebox

My grandmother would call the toilet a "commode". I haven't heard that years.

Shinola as in "can't tell shit from Shinola". Even as a kid I had no idea what Shinola was.

Fax machine.

shoe polish!

Foundation garment

Condom

French letter

R30 I don't know, Mrs. Drysdale.

Active

Passive

R51

I’d say rubber is the bygone word by this point 🤷🏻‍♂️

xerox (as a verb)

neat (to mean "cool")

foyer

credenza

fedora

Transistor

Victrola

Typewriter

CinemaScope

“Let’s go for a movie and afterwards we can put oleo on each other!”

Village Voice

Quadraphonic (sound)

Junket

^ The rennet custard

Junket is used every day in politics

Ethics, civic duty, democracy

[quote]Dead words that eldergays remember.

Cuz if me don know it it DAY-ED.

“Machine” was my grandmother’s word for automobile.

She drove a Packard, too.

Better that than an Edsel.

We had the same in Quebec, r47. It was the Dad's job to do the mixing. It wasn't uncommon to see fathers on their patios after work manipulating that bag with a scotch on the rocks or martini nearby.

A young woman recently asked how my husband and I met, and when I replied “a personal ad in a newspaper,” she was agog.

"Dull," meaning a person who is mildly retarded.

simpleton

r73: also "slow."

bigot

Party line

Thank you, R8.

R11, I remember my Mom applying mercurochrome whenever we had a canker sore as kids.

Words in pig Latin

phonograph

dipsomaniac

tosspot

I thought mercurochrome was for external use only?

Water closet

Selectric (IBM typewriter)

My grandmother (born in the 1900s) used "icebox" her whole life. She died in the 1990s.

R66 Not capitalized as a brand name...

Tupperware

garbage can

Mop n Glo

roll down the window

ticket stub

R78 It's a wonder you're still alive.

R82 Don't we still say "roll down the window"?

R37 My grandfather just went from quadroon to passing for poor white trash when he changed states.

R66 Yet, capitalized at the beginning of a sentence. No?

[quote] garbage can

Do you also believe that "groceries" is an old fashioned word, R82?

Chinaman. As in, "doesn't stand a Chinaman's chance."

And a typeball, R79, for the Selectric in the font of your choice. Elite 12 and Courier 10 - if memory serves me - were mine.

Payphone

Smelling salts

Picture show

R89 - I remember a Pica typeball from high school typing class freshman year of high school (1978).

Frenchie

Condom, abbreviation of “French letter” or possibly a resident of France.

Aspergum

R91 My husband said he used special typeballs when he was in the military back then. One had nautical characters that IBM made up for the Navy.

Bicarbonate

dime store

Five and dime

Montgomery Ward

Sears Roebuck

Lord and Taylor

Rogers Peet

Get off my coattails, r97.

"Bermudas" for any type of shorts worn in warm weather.

I use all five of R56's words (the last three only when referring to the object, of course—what else do you call those things, even if they're rarely seen now?).

Ayds.

For when you wanted to lose weight.

Dungarees

R99 standing corrected

Potation

Cattywampus

Settee

Rolodex

Filofax

Palm Pilot

Blackberry

Polaroids

Clicker

Hydramatic or better yet, Dynaflow, or more forcefully, Shift Command.

Parlor Car

Wessonality

Party Line ( a home phone line shared by two different random homes)

Peddle pushers

enceinte

bastard (to refer to a child born out of wedlock)

maiden aunt or spinster

porter

107 sed the thread

Fruitious . I used it recently and the people I said it to had no idea what I meant .

Oleo from my grandma too.

Touch tone

Ma Bell

I wonder if youngsters even know what IBM is. In years past it was known for business machines (of course), computers, and as an general example of a large bureaucratic corporation. Even though they don't make hardware anymore they still employ about 300,000 people, so I might be wrong.

Itsy Bitsy Machines

[quote]Foundation garment

Zips up the back and no bone!

tureen

Green Stamps

Welfare

Full Service (as in gas station)

r107 see r77

I'd Walk A Mile For A Camel

Jazz shoes

Trick.

You’re welcome

Certs.

Martini and Rossi ( on the rocks)

You can be sure ( if it's Westinghouse)

Intimate Freshness ( Massingil)

Handiwipes

Linen Closet

Root Cellar

Trick ( aka hookup)

Coal bin

Cross your heart bra - it lifts and separates!

Hair up in rollers

Pin curls

High and Tight (hair)

Hitler Youth (hair)

Wouldya look at those hippies down on Sixth Avenue!

Cottaging

Drinking fountain

Polio scare

Air raid siren

Wall phone with extension cord

Telephone book ("I'm in the book!")

Kaposi's sarcoma

Spoolies

Fallout Shelter

Duck and cover

Coets

The Great War

I only know what oleo is because I do crossword puzzles.

Housecoat. Girdle. As in, "I wear my housecoat at home, but I never go out without wearing my girdle."

Did anyone else refer to mercurochrome as "monkey blood?" Or was that just my weird family?

Toilet trader

Antimacassar

How is your MOTHER and FATHER?

Replaced by How's your MOM and DAD?

Hitler Youth (hair) was only 10 years ago. the undercut. Why is this dead words? those beautiful young men are probably in their 30s now and know the expression.

Pocketbook

GRID

Gay Related Immune Deficiency

this was the word/phrase just before scientists came up with AIDS.

Snood

Slacks and or Dungarees

Telephone Booth

Wingtips

Mollyhouse

Monkey Wards.

Naugahyde.

Dinette Set.

Trash compactor.

Velamints.

Jello Pudding Pops.

Leatherette

Hamburger Lift

Jello 1-2-3

Jelly Shoes

Leg Warmers

FOOTSIE

KBONGERS

Newborn Thumbelina

Beautiful Chrissy has beautiful hair that grows.

Spirograph

Tee-tee for pee.

Ghetto & slum (to describe a place).

Ghetto is still widely used.

common courtesy

civility

respect

tolerance

[quote] Ghetto is still widely used.

To describe behavior, yes, but it was widely used to describe (mostly Black) places where people lived. I was recently watching network election night coverage from 1968 & there was a talk then of the ghetto vote. It was commonly heard in this context as late as the '70s.

Gestetner

Got it, r152. "Ghetto" is still used as slang for a poor and dangerous neighborhood, but you're correct that it's not used in mainstream media anymore.

I have sufficient.

Decoration Day

Limp wristed

Pansy

Fairy

Fruit

"You're hot."

“Confirmed bachelor.”

When I was a little kid and heard that, I thought a priest or a bishop was involved.

"Artistic" and "creative" as code words to describe a man who was gay.

OP - I learned that word doing crossword puzzles (asking my Silent Gen father what the hell that shit was!).

Not to be confused with "olio" another crossword favourite.

Chifferobe

Divan

BarcaLounger

Love Seat

Day bed

Conversation pit

Stereo console

Dial tone

Cuspidor

Brougham

Hardtop

Ashtray

Chain smoking

ashtray

Whoops, R146.

Food processor

Salad spinner

Crock pot

Pet Rock

Pension

Government cheese 🧀

Mitsouko

"Taken advantage of"

Today it's called "rape."

Air fern

R6 You win! Lol!

R106 and R137 Clicker and Pocketbook are not dead in Massachusetts. Those are still part of common parlance here.

(Light enough to pass)

Rotary dial.

Knockers

Jugs

Cannons

Udders

Bazooms

Tallywhacker

[quote] ...not dead in Massachusetts

Do you still say PACKAGE STORE?

R154 it’s used every day, in any discussion about the Holocaust and European anti-semitism.

People use to call Italians DAGO or Wop as a racial slurs.

There was a joke, What sound does an Italian sports car make when it gets a flat tire.

Dago, wop wop wop.

But, R182, it used to be widely & regularly used to identify where Black people in the US resided. Even in predominantly poor Black neighborhoods, it’s no longer in usage. But I take your point about it still be used in reference to Jewish ghettos in the WWII era.

Not “but”—I didn’t contradict the earlier post, I clarified the word’s (original) meaning…still in regular use.

Chinaman

Shanty Irish

My dad sometimes says "what kind of martha-dyke shit is this" when he's trying to put something together and the pieces don't fit. I asked him what that means and it turns out he means hermaphrodite!

Siberian whore

Three dollar hooker

wing wong

Wallace Beery

Liza Minnelli

Broad

Percolator

Fuse

Dial

Busy signal

Whitewall tire

Call waiting

E ticket

Separation of powers

Checks and balances

R122 - what do you call the closet you keep your towels and sheets in? We have a pretty small condo, but we have a linen closet.

Once in a while, I'll say "icebox" for some reason. Probably because I grew up hearing it. If we had an icebox when I was small, I don't remember it.

Broadloom (for Wall To Wall Carpeting)

Wall To Wall Carpeting

Snackwells

Saturday Morning Cartoons

The nation's babysitter while the parents slept-in. Cereal and milk meant any four year old could get his own breakfast and park himself in front of the TV.

Honorable mention to School House Rock.

Ahem. NOUNS.

Shortening. I don’t see that in new recipes. Honestly though lard is great in pie crust.

Chastity Bono

Words evolve. The word "ghetto" originated from the Venetian Ghetto in Venice, Italy, in 1516. Specifically, it refers to the walled-off area where Jews were required to live by law. It was then most commonly used during WWII to describe any place Jews were required to live in Europe during Nazi occupation. Later, it was used in the US to describe slum areas that poor Black people lived. Now, "being ghetto" in contemporary slang can mean behaving in a low-class manner or exhibiting behaviors associated with a perceived lack of sophistication, often associated with poverty and urban environments. It's a word that is still used, it's just that the meaning has evolved.

panty-waist!

R205 is our resident Sherlock.

No shit!

Did oleo cause polio?

R163, my grandmother (b. 1902) used to refer to the the freestanding closet in her bedroom as a Chifferobe. I understand the difference between it and an armoire, but I never heard anyone else use it, until I read it in one of Tolstoy's short stories.

My mother told me her grandmother (b. 1875) would refer to a frying pan as a spider.

Was your named gran named Mayella? Did she try to seduce a man by asking him to bust up a chifferobe?

Every kid in America learns what a chifferobe is by 8th or 9th grade English required reading.

Bedclothes

Billfold

Washing powder

Vapors

Settee

MEPS

Even if not an eldergay, if you're a crossword fan you know the word settee.

Prisoner, to describe an arrested individual.

Alienist (former name for a psychiatrist).

Chiropodist

Oculist

Orderly

Secretary

R209 What she was referring to did not look like the frying pans we use now because then a pan used for frying had legs to old it over the grate or the embers in a fireplace prior to the introduction of cookstoves.

Oddly enough (or not) today a flat or shallow strainer or skimmer is called a spider because the wires forming the basket are supposedly reminiscent of a spiderweb.

Schvartza. The lady who came pnce a week to do housewotk.

That’s a racial slur, asshole. BTW, you didn’t even spell it properly.

Mulignan

Thanks, R220

I used to watch this on my local PBS. Here he is explaining a spider

R220 I have one of those. It's quite useful. I always called it a Chinese strainer. I think that's what Martha calls it.

AAPI strainer

Avon calling!

Riunite

5" floppy

That’s used on Scruff all the time…guess you wouldn’t know that

Seven Seas dressing.

Zories!

^ you kids call them flip flops. We were more cultured back then.

r229 In reference to your dick?

The disks were 5.25" (and 3.5")

Soft. Not hard disk.

Crisco

Crispy Critters

fruit truck

rice queen

Three of those four are still very current.

Where? Ohio?

I am so extremely old that I remember learning to recite the alphabet ending with "x..y..z.. and, per se, and."

"And per se and" meant the & symbol, and it used to be part of the alphabet. And the per se meant that it was the word and rather than the use of the word and.

It's the original the word Ampersand, which is just a slurring of and per se and.

Checks and balances

Well, we just called 'em 5-inch floppies, as opposed to 3-inch floppies. Were you even old enough to have a job back then?

And speaking of inaccuracies, you didn't even notice my moniker? I don't have a penis, 5", 5.25", 3", or any other size.

A fact, R234, for which I am [italic]extremely[/italic] grateful.

R181 it's the pakky.

8-track tape

Be kind, rewind.

Ditto machines.

Can you still remember the smell of the damp dittos, fresh from the machine, on your school desk?

R222 Racial slur or nit, back in tbe day the black help who came in occassionalky was calked a shvartza. That's tbe word that wad used. I believe this tbeead is about dead words? Well thats a dead word that once upon a time was widely used.

Style

Elegance

Flair

Cache

[quote]Dinner for the meal at noon.

This is a regional expression that's still commonly used in New England.

Javelle water as a name for laundry bleach.

"Touched" used as a word to describe a person who was mentally ill.

"That boy's never been right in the head, he's always been touched."

R245 I bet you used the N-word too. They are equivalent, FYI.

[quote] Well thats a dead word that once upon a time was widely used.

Notwithstanding my protestations, I have relatives, in their late '60s & early '70s, who still use the word.

[quote] [R245] I bet you used the N-word too. They are equivalent, FYI.

Apart from the very serious historical context, isn't the N-word somewhat the equivalent of "white trash"? I mean, "black trash" is never used.

"Dial" a telephone number

R251 no it’s not. Get a clue.

R253, as I prefaced in my post, obviously, historically at least, there is no equivalency. White people in this country have no history of being lynched & denied their franchise. And there is no white equivalent of the Tulsa Race Massacre, what happened in Wilmington around the turn of the century, & so many other racist offense in our history. But ... it's a truism - & a form of racism - to not recognize that we don't have a term comparable for white trash to describe very bad behavior in non-white communities. See Rock, Chris.

R250 No. Never heard the n word till i was in college. Wadnt a word i grew up hearing. Shvartza on the other hand was yoddish sbd i grew up in a yiddish speaking community. By the way, back then "black" was a racial perjorative . The polite word then was "negro," which is another dead word. Afro-anerican became a thing in tbe 60s abd 70s. Wasnt used bavk then. Afro ametican is anothet dead word.

So much wrong in your run-on paragraph. You embarrass your “community.”

r160, or Unique and distinct, where the terms used for my gay voice. When I was little, if my grandmother thought I was playing hooky, the Truant officer was going to come and get me.

I remember my mother saying "He's a little simple" to describe someone who was mildly retarded.

Light in the loafer.

Donald Trump remarked that Jarad "is a little light in his loafers" after their first introduction.

[quote]I am so extremely old that I remember learning to recite the alphabet ending with "x..y..z.. and, per se, and."

How many letters were in the alphabet back then?

[quote]Javelle water as a name for laundry bleach.

"Javellisant" is the French word for bleach.

[quote] Donald Trump remarked that Jarad "is a little light in his loafers" after their first introduction.

No surprise since he's stuck in the '50s, either the 1850s or 1950s.

[quote]Cache

The word you were looking for is CACHET.

Tatty

Posh

Live words that the long gone wouldn't recognize? Surreal, which was seldom used back in the day & is now deployed indiscriminately.

Foundation garment

Support hose

That’s another thread r266

Literally

I’d like to think of it more as a spinoff thread, R268.

R251 remember when there was all that Russian troll farm racism years back? That was insane.

*Schwartze, r245 r255. And Yiddish.

eight track tape

R271 It's actually שוואַרץ. Yiddish is written in Hebrew letters (so the Germans won't understand).

Don’t get me started on polio. And why they often got it after swimming.

chickenhawk chicken

trade

"Basket", as in, "look at the package on this one".

"Buns", as in, "look at the ass on this one".

Both, very 70s.

androgynous

[quote]Both, very 70s.

Coincidentally, a lot of the posters in this thread appear to be in their 70s.

R271. You’re a day late and a dollar short, Nancy.

R222, the real Nancy

Reform school

Are those kinds of schools even around anymore?

Juvenile delinquents.

Juvie

Cordless phone

[quote]Don’t get me started on polio. And why they often got it after swimming.

It'll be back in vogue soon enough.

From another thread, the word "piker."

WTF is a piker?

Trollup

Stingy. Not to counted on for anything.

What? Did you mean trollop?

Piker. Duh

Yes r290

Butch wax for your flat top haircut.

DA

Pompadour

Party Girl i.e. "whore"

"easy," as in she's easy, she'll do it with doorknobs...

"Town bicycle" or "town pump," aka the biggest whore in town.

"Shellacking" your hair, which meant styling your hair with Dippity-doo or another one of those old-timey hair products.

"I'll be ready in a minute, I just have to shellack my hair."

Be Kind Rewind

“That’s what SHE said!”

In old movies I've heard "pulling a boner" meaning to make a blunder.

Bonehead

…where it comes from

i still say that

Dickey

Niggardly

Mock turtleneck ;)

Skinflint - a person who's cheap and miserly

Honey, R285, look at the title of this thread.

308 thanks for clarifying (?) who’d a known

Skinflute

mean as in cheap

Serving realness

Pissant!

droll

meretricious

Half-Windsor

I still use some of these. Actually, several of them.

Yea— that’s the general idea. You and no one younger. Get it?

dickey

R318, I do too

Rubberneckers

Color TV

[quote] Yea— that’s the general idea. You and no one younger. Get it?

Do you understand the answers without explanations or looking them up? Sincere question - my four grandparents were born 1880 - 1895. In the 1960-70s I had humble myself and ask them what the hell they were taking about. there was no Google then.

Newspaper delivery boy.

Milkman.

I read a lot of British novels, and they're always mentioning "milk floats," which I gather is the truck or other delivery vehicle that milkmen use. Is milk delivery still a thing in the UK? And why is it a "float"? We generally only use that word for things in parades.

The poor farm. (A real thing, apparently.)

My father used to warn us that we'd end up there if we kept asking for pricey things.

Ding A Ling ( slang word for penis)

Nuthouse

A dear friend from upstate NY told me her grandmother used to refer to homosexuals as "Bessies". Unclear if the singular form was "Bess" or "Bessy". Also unclear if this was a slur, or a socially accepted term.

A "Boston marriage" was a gay man and a lesbian marrying one another and pretending to be straight while having their same-sex lovers on the downlow.

R334 yes. For better or worse, I haven’t seen anything in this thread that I had to look up elsewhere. I’ve been around the block a few times, as they used to say.

R331 don’t be ridiculous. A Boston marriage was two women living together, neither dependent on any man. (father, brother or other). It was not necessarily sexual, but clearly emotional. In no universe was it man and woman who were married.

R331 read your Henry James!

Or David Mamet, if more your speed.

Slap and tickle.

Thongs - what Flip Flops used to be called.

We used to call them just "sandals."

R337 see R232

“Jockey Boy” when it meant (racist) lawn ornament, not twink with an underwear fetish.

er…lawn jockey.

Used then used now.

Downtown Suzy (euphemism for the vagina), the Fur Cellar (euphemism for the vagina), whisker biscuit (euphemism for the vagina)

[quote]We used to call them just "sandals."

Sandals were generally more substantial and made from leather. Flip-flops were the cheapo plastic things that cost about 50 cents.

Weren’t they rubber originally?

No. The were originally woven twine or straw. They became a thing in the U..S. after WWII…from Japan to the West Coast (California, in particular).

No shit Sherlock!

Talk to the hand!

Where’s the beef?

Bu-fu

Short for “butt fuck,” a euphemism for “gay.”

This was an infamous slang term used as a slur (though sometimes in humor) in the very early 80s, as I remember growing up as a teen in the suburbs of Dallas. It occasionally showed up in popular culture (see Moon Unit Zappa’s use of it in her and her father’s hit song ‘Valley Girl’)

I say this all the time, R346. Does this make me an eldergay?

R347 Good one! This is definitely one for the 80s memory vaults.

I would point out for those unfamiliar that it was pronounced, “Boo-foo.”

Hardly infamous. I never heard used outside of the song context. And inside the song context it was a satirical reference, not a slur.

I remember hearing “boo-foo” long before that song came out. In the 70s. I lived in AZ. It was often used in the phrase “boo-foo buddy.” It meant “fag.”

That’s funny—even Oxford traces it back to only 1982–the song.

It’s settled: Moon Unit Zappa invented this phrase

How is funny? Moon Unit heard it from someone.

I don’t think she coined the phrase.

I don’t think anyone said she created the phrase. But a search does turn up any apparent reference in the press, pop culture or elsewhere that predates the song.

Anyway…back to actual eldergay words: horseplay

does NOT*

My understanding is that Moon was just doing impersonations of girls at her school and Frank recorded it.

Correct

Booby Hatch

Uranian

Invert

Floozies!

Ho Chi Minhs

crats

Ham and Motherfuckers

Black Syph Island

A John Wayne

“read” the law

[quote]Does this make me an eldergay?

Yes, among many other factors.

My mom used to call margerine oleo. When I was a kid she called the noon meal dinner.

Dry goods.

Blowser

Front seat (of a car).

Station wagon.

TV antenna.

Vertical hold Horizontal hold Fine Tuning

Phone book. Someone on Reddit unresolved mysteries thought a killer must have known his victim because he kept calling her house. I explained that there were big books with everyone's address and phone number written in them.

Address book.

Don’t forget Diagonal, R372

[quote]Floozies!

A great word that deserves to make a comeback.

R256 Thats all youlk get from me on dl, run on scentences and typos from typibg on my little kphone jetboard.

Blue haired ladies. Mah Jong Club Canasta Women's Christian Temperance Union Block Busting Some of My Best Friends Are Jews Credit to their race

R378 If you want punctuation, you have to ask for it.

r379 if you want to teach a fucking English class, you can get of a bullshit forum that uses conversational, stream-of-consciousness ramblings.

huh?

Mod

Groovy

Rad..

Saturday matinee movie

Notions, as in the notions department of a store.

Newsreel

Referring to cops as “the fuzz”.

Datalounge

'Nothing' as is women had nothing down there. So Shakespeare was making a pun. As the play has much to do about 'nothing.' Still as an eldergay why would I of all people know this. Maybe an elderlez would know it.

OPERATOR, Get me the POLICE!

Haberdasher

Men's Furnishings

Men's Hair Stylist

Radar Range

Ladies' Entrance (to a bar).

Screaming Yellow Zonkers

the vapors

copacetic

Dime Store Floozy

(now it’s Dollar Store Trash!)

Gesundheit!

Follow that cab!

Brylcream

Doppelgänger, Zeitgeist, Wunderkind, Kaffeeklatsch

Yiddish endures, though

r387, and a "Fuzz Buster"

Just heard this one on Bugs Bunny: "Slip him a mickey."

Pal.

Buddy.

Ladies' Club

does club soda still exist?

Of course it does—where have you been?

So does seltzer, in the big city.

Piazza

Crimeny. My grandmother always used to say "oh, crimeny" or "for crimeny sakes" when something when wrong.

L.A. Weekly personals

Plaza

Backpages

cigar store Indian

trading post - souvenir gift shops used to be called this in tourist areas that had no special Native American connection.

“Trip to Hollywood” - a good thing used as a negative: “He’s no trip to Hollywood”

gosh darned

frisky

split beaver

R407, i drink it every day

spectacles (for eyeglasses)

spats

gallivant

britches

Trousers

R112 - IBM is very much still in the hardware business.

radiotelephone Telex

r420 I think "trousers" is still the default word in British English, because "pants" means underwear there.

Gossip bench.

Green stamps.

R420 that word has not gone anywhere….used everyday.

R425 Not used as much as it used to be.

Kodak

Xerox

Bausch and Lomb

Stagflation

Oil embargo

Waterbed

Campfire Girls

Really? When you go shopping for a men’s suit, do they ask why style of coat or pant you want? No, they ask what kind of jacket and trouser would you like.

Okay, you win. I was talking about everyday usage. People used to use trousers more, now they use pants more. It's like frock, or gown. Dress is used more now.

Waldsterben

[QUOTE]Peddle pushers

Oh, dear.

Trousers is used for men's pants in the UK. Believe me, I was living there, and tried to use both pants and slacks and was corrected.

"Straights" for unfiltered cigarettes.

"Gimme a pack of Camel straights."

“Leaded or unleaded?”

Bluelight Special

Courtesy Check Cashing Card

Whalebone corset.

Iron-poor blood

Hi-test

Twenty five cents a gallon, five gallons for a dollar on Tuesdays.

Thespian

[quote]does club soda still exist?

Clearly a lesbian. Vodka/soda is gay mens' mother's milk.

Club soda has minerals, seltzer does not. I drink club soda for the health benefits.

Automat

Nash

Auburn

Cord

Peerless

Pierce Arrow

Packard

La Salle

De Soto

Hudson

Kaiser

Graham - Paige

Reo

DuPont

Duesenberg

Oakland

Viking

Marmon

Studebaker

Fill ‘er up with Ethyl.

Balderdash.

“I left my pawket-book in the cah! Just a wicked day eh?”

[quote]Vodka/soda is gay mens' mother's milk.

It never was mine. I rather hated vodka. Gin was my drink, on the rocks with lime. Preferably Bombay. If I ever drink again, it will be Bombay Sapphire.

"Would you like a highball?"

Plymouth

Pontiac

Oldsmobile

The Coast.

Yo grandma was poh’ white trash OP.

Pontiac is still around.

Back east

R452 The city is, but GM stopped making them 15 years ago.

Gum band Calgon, take me away! "Hey, Culligan Man" LSMFT

Gum band?

LSMFT?

r456 A gum band is an elastic band, in Pittsburghese. LSMFT = Lucky Strike (cigarettes) Means Fine Tobacco.

Bargain basement

Gin is so low class.

Despite all the Russians passed out in the gutters of Moscow vodka remains THE drink.

Bread, Dough-as in money.

Beatniks.

Divorcee.

Latch key kid