Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

[AtomicEraTom]

I always call it a lunch pail. I did the other day and my sister replied "What is this? 1957, oh I bet you wish that!"

She also harasses my mother and I for saying Short Pants instead of Shorts.

I was raised to call that thing you carry your sandwich in a "dinner pail." "Lunch Box" was a term used only by outastaters.

 

[jamespowers]

I always call it a lunch pail. I did the other day and my sister replied "What is this? 1957, oh I bet you wish that!"

She also harasses my mother and I for saying Short Pants instead of Shorts.

Well, they are short pants. Shorts were what you watched at a movie house before the main film.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Shorts = Gym Pants. No adult would be caught dead wearing them on the street.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Icebox
Davenport
Hi-Fi
Swell
Neat

'You've got more excuses than Carter's got Liver pills.'
'As the Crow flies'
'Knee High to a Grasshopper'
'in a Coon's age' (my friends have adopted this as I use it quite often)

 

[TidiousTed]

Shorts = Gym Pants. No adult would be caught dead wearing them on the street.

Personly I wouldn't be caught dead wearing any sort of short pants on the street in Oslo. You look ridicelous in tweed, hat or sixpence and short pants

 

[jamespowers]

Shorts = Gym Pants. No adult would be caught dead wearing them on the street.

Unfortunately now it is---no adult should be caught dead wearing them on the street.

 

[jamespowers]

Icebox
Davenport
Hi-Fi
Swell
Neat

'You've got more excuses than Carter's got Liver pills.'
'As the Crow flies'
'Knee High to a Grasshopper'
'in a Coon's age' (my friends have adopted this as I use it quite often)

Davenport? Isn't that the guy from Dukes of Hazzard?

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Well, him too.

I never use Davenport unless someone has their feet on the couch, then I say 'dogs off the davenport.'

Davenport? Isn't that the guy from Dukes of Hazzard?

 

[jamespowers]

Well, him too.

I never use Davenport unless someone has their feet on the couch, then I say 'dogs off the davenport.'

The good old A.H. Davenport Company in Massachusetts may be long defunct now but their synonym with the sofa or folding couch is still around today.

 

[LizzieMaine]

We called any record player a "Victrola." As in "Shut off that damn Victrola and go to bed!"

 

[Philip Adams]

When I was a child, my grandparents always referred to the radio as 'the wireless'.

I never really understood this as more often than not the thing was attached to the wall via a lenght of wire that provided the power!

 

[scottyrocks]

It's the way the signal is received - over the 'airwaves.' No wires.

 

[Effingham]

We called any record player a "Victrola." As in "Shut off that damn Victrola and go to bed!"

My mother did that, too. Ah, sweet memories.

And, Philip -- at least they didn't call it "the Marconi."

 

[Philip Adams]

And, Philip -- at least they didn't call it "the Marconi."

I guess I can be grateful for something!

 

[Miss sofia]

When I was a child, my grandparents always referred to the radio as 'the wireless'.

I never really understood this as more often than not the thing was attached to the wall via a lenght of wire that provided the power!

I still call it a wireless, i can't help it!

 

[jamespowers]

My mother did that, too. Ah, sweet memories.

And, Philip -- at least they didn't call it "the Marconi."

It should actually be called "the Tesla."

 

[C-dot]

I never use Davenport unless someone has their feet on the couch, then I say 'dogs off the davenport.'

My grandmother used to call the couch a "Chesterfield" lol She also referred to carpet as "the broadloom," and the landing as "the vestibule."

It must have been a Golden Era thing to refer to most items by their brand names. I'll admit that "the car" doesn't have the same ring as "the Pontiac."

 

[LizzieMaine]

We always called the front porch the "piazza." And with the exception of my great great grandmother, we aren't even Italian.

 

[Tango Yankee]

Was he using one of those Ron Propeil gadgets?

Glass cutter if I recall correctly; might have also tried using diamond saw to cut it, grinder and polishers to clean it up. He was a "rockhound" so had this equipment on hand for cutting and polishing rocks.

 

[C-dot]

You know what vintage thing I would like to have back? News and weather casters that will just tell me the news and weather. I don't want to hear about the cute thing their kids did before the headline story, and I don't want to be told that the weather across Eastern Canada is "status quo" and "the temperatures speak for themselves." A rockin' party on the roof of the building is not what I consider "whats going on in the world," and I don't think their jokes between stories are funny.

This is why I prefer the newspaper.