I was thinking of some of the old words we use to use all the time and wondering where they went.

Remember the car terms such as; fender skirts, steering knobs, curb feelers, running boards, (oops that dates me)even emergency brakes isn't used much now. Also when an accelerator was called a foot feed. OH and the ever popolar continental kit? Every guy I knew had or wanted one to make his car look like a Lincoln.

Remember when a coffee pot was called a perculator? Oh, and when we women wore brassieres? Not anymore...

We use to say coast to coast and it was a big deal to travel so far, now we take for granted the term, worldwide.

If you were a reaqlly bad guy they called you a 'rat fink.' Thats laughable when you think of what you'd be called today...

Remember when saying a dress or candy or something we acquired was 'store bought'? OH, the good old days!

Last but not least when we were to proper to say 'pregnant.' Oh my no, you had to be expecting, or the stork was visiting soon, or in a family way (that was a biggy.)

Remebmer going to the picture show? Try saying that now in open company...

And can someone tell me if I missed a telethon? Remember the dreaded lumbago so many suffered from back in the day, what ever happened to it? Maybe the castor oil we were all threatened with back then cured it.

Funny when the mind wonders, all the golden oldies that sometimes surface...

Does anyone else have any old words that have ceased to be used?

record, record player, 35 m...

soon: vcr, land line, analog....

transistor radio
Tape deck
Bells (as in bell-bottom pants)
"Do" (hairdo)
Out-of-wedlock (may be used sometimes nowadays)
"In trouble" (pg/unwed)
"My friend" (your period/menstruation)
Bookbag (today's backpack)
Loose leaf book
We used to say "Call for me" to our childhood friends, meaning going to your friends house
Stay over (stay at a friend's house overnight)
Slumber/pj party
Get an "order" or go "food shopping"
Wear your rubbers (goulashes/rain boots)

I'll think of more.

Those are great ladies...But where do these words go? I never could figure that out.

I recall: rat fink, raunchy, cruisin' and toolin', moonin', hep
skag, blitzed, chicken, duck tail, jazzed

How about go-go boots, girdles, chickened out, beehive hairdo, brown-noser, catching zs, five and dime, corner store...

Dotsie,
I forgot about the five and dime. We still have a five and dime in my hometown. The same family owns it, who owned it when I was
a kid.

BUt I bet everything still isn't a nickel or dime. Actually, that wasn't the case long ago, but the prices were dang cheap!

sorry rat fink ....thats for real, i though that was only the caped crusaders or just robin....cabammmb

So was more said for from then like holy cow? or was that just hollywood. .....