Terms Which Have Disappeared

[2jakes]

“Extra, Read all about it."

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

Must've been a heck of a gas war. That's a searchlight truck. Maybe they were expecting an air attack from a rival gas station.

 

[2jakes]

Must've been a heck of a gas war. That's a searchlight truck. Maybe they were expecting an air attack from a rival gas station.

 

[Stearmen]

especially when you have a lot of gas!

 

[LizzieMaine]

A lot of war-surplus searchlights turned up on the back of flatbed trailers in the postwar era as gimmicks for promoting all-night sales at used-car lots, supermarket openings, and other marketing events. We had a guy around here who was still using one as recently as the '90s.

When I was little we had seven gas stations in my home town, with a population of less than 2000 people. The gas wars were brutal, and lifelong friendships were destroyed for the sake of a few pennies. It was the worst kind of cut-throat business, and devil take the hindmost.

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

20 miles north of me in Moriarty, NM there is a fireworks stand in a big revival-style tent. Near the 4th of July and new year's they have a sale and have 3 or 4 searchlights sweeping the sky at night. I can see them from my backyard at this distance.

 

[2jakes]

^^^^
They are very much in use where I live.
Besides the fire works, they are used for car promos, carnival &
fair events.

 

[Stearmen]

Yippee ki yay little buckaroo!

 

[Stearmen]

Kemosabe!

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

Bitchin'!

 

[2jakes]

“Umgawa”

 

[2jakes]

 

[skydog757]

"I'm going to thrash him to within an inch of his life."

"I'm going to beat the living tar out of him."

 

[Trenchfriend]

It seems, that marketing in Germany calls the classic men's slippers actual more and more after the older term"penny-loafers".

 

[skydog757]

He was standing there big as life and twice as natural.

 

[BlueTrain]

Well, gosh all fishhooks, I don't think anything them things are gone. They aren't, are they? Maybe I ought to get out more.

Maybe a few things are gone and a few other things are close to it. But that was true when I was knee-high (not to be confused with Nehi). I already mentioned somewhere or other how the passenger trains no longer stopped in my hometown of about 8,000 people, although the station was still there. In fact, none of the trains stopped there. Eventually the station was demolished, only to be rebuilt maybe 30 years later as a railroad museum.

One thing that is gone, probably never to return is "locally owned." But you always had to watch out for them out-of-state drivers.

 

[Fading Fast]

I turned on Turner Classic Movies yesterday morning and caught two-thirds of the very enjoyable pre-code "Design for Living" (basically, an argument in favor of a long-term threesome relationship with two men and one women - pre-codes where definitely ahead of their times) and the terms "masher" and "nertz" were used. I think we've discussed both terms in this thread before, but it was neat to see them both pop up in one movie.

Also, one of the best things about TCM is the surprise of turning it on and, more often than not, being able to enjoy what is playing right then and there.

 

[LizzieMaine]

That's a great picture. If you think the movie's snappy, you should read the play it's based on. Oooweee.

 

[Zombie_61]

...One thing that is gone, probably never to return is "locally owned." But you always had to watch out for them out-of-state drivers.

"Locally owned" is still quite popular in the coastal towns associated with cruise-line tourism, and I'll tell you why. Both Royal Caribbean and Princess Cruises (and probably every other cruise line) are very good about handing out pamphlets when you disembark which let you know which businesses they "recommend" you visit while you're off of the ship. What they don't tell you is that they recommend those businesses because they get a percentage of the tourism profits. So when you see a store or restaurant with a sign that says "Locally owned" (or something to that effect) it means they're not associated with any cruise lines and that they keep whatever profits they make, which is far better for their local economy.

 

[Stearmen]

Locally owned is still big in commercials here! But, it is funny to hear, Locally Owned since 1995, like that is such a long time.