Terms No Longer Used (but the things still exist)

Maximus
Maximus Posts: 12,256 Member
edited September 20 in Chit-Chat
1. Ice Box
2. Department Store
3. Service Station
4. Handbag
5. Motion Picture
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  • Momma2four
    Momma2four Posts: 1,534
    people still have ice boxes? They really need to get a refrigerator! ( and it is spelled that way)
  • Phoenix_Rising
    Phoenix_Rising Posts: 11,417 Member
    I feel antiquated. I still say department store.
  • iplayoutside19
    iplayoutside19 Posts: 2,304 Member
    Britches
    Devan
    Veranda
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
    Stockings
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
    Brassiere

    As as kid I thought that was such a funny word. :laugh:
  • tubbytabbytales
    tubbytabbytales Posts: 5,883
    Darn (as in, darning socks)
  • JoyousMaximus
    JoyousMaximus Posts: 9,285 Member
    :laugh: I say stockings, handbag, and department store... and veranda as well. I don't even have age as an excuse. I'm only 25.
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
    I feel antiquated. I still say department store.

    I still say service station. :laugh:
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
    And how about pocketbook. :huh: Sounds like a book you put in your pocket instead of being a purse.
  • VballLeash
    VballLeash Posts: 2,456 Member
    sneakers...

    Ummm I saw department store too lol...

    ~Leash :heart:
  • VballLeash
    VballLeash Posts: 2,456 Member
    I mean say not saw.. obviously!
  • SachaMichel
    SachaMichel Posts: 95
    :blushing: I'm a teen and I say department store. What's it called now?
  • guidosgal
    guidosgal Posts: 581 Member
    How funny my nana use to call her couch "The Davenport" But I have to say I still shop at a department store But there are no more 5 and dimes :bigsmile:
  • Phoenix_Rising
    Phoenix_Rising Posts: 11,417 Member
    beauty parlor?
  • weaklink109
    weaklink109 Posts: 2,831 Member
    In a related vein, words or terms from the past that you now have to use carefully due to a different meaning in the culture than was originally intended:

    From the Christmas Carol "Deck the Halls"...."Don we now our gay apparel!"

    "Booty"--used to be something you found on a baby's foot, or a pirate's treasure, but now it refers to a different part of the anatomy!!

    There was also a product that was advertised as an appetite suppressant which was called "Ayds"--don't know if it exists anymore, but if it were being marketed now, I don't think that would be the name they would choose.

    I am sure there are more, but I can't think of anymore right now.
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  • lotusfromthemud
    lotusfromthemud Posts: 5,335 Member
    This is making me miss my grandma. . .awwww. . .

    She also called the couch a "davenport" and called her shirt a "waist."

    Yep, that's right. . .a "waist". Which, thanks to too much time on the davenport, she did not possess. (a waist, that is)
  • Shannon023
    Shannon023 Posts: 14,529 Member
    Barber shop.
    Record store
  • Kityngirl
    Kityngirl Posts: 14,304 Member
    Apothecary.

    we used to walk up to the apothecary almost every day during the summer to get candy....I guess it's just called the drug store now...
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    cook, sew, clean.............Oh you mean not just me?:tongue:
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    Record store

    :sad:
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  • mello
    mello Posts: 817 Member
    Waste Basket (Grandma used to tell me to throw my garbage in the waste basket)
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  • TCASMEY
    TCASMEY Posts: 1,405 Member
    clicker
    glove box
  • mello
    mello Posts: 817 Member
    I thought you put your pocketbook in your hand bag. Pocket Book is the wallet and handbag is the purse
  • CasperO
    CasperO Posts: 2,913 Member
    We still have Barber Shops in the smaller towns, no self respecting farmer's going to a salon.

    I still say Clicker, or clicky thing (maybe that ones just me,,,).

    Ottoman.
  • TCASMEY
    TCASMEY Posts: 1,405 Member
    My husband still says clicker ....its been awhile since they clicked though!:smile:
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