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    Terms No Longer Used (but the things still exist)

    Posts: 12,256 Member
    edited September 2024 in Chit-Chat
    1. Ice Box
    2. Department Store
    3. Service Station
    4. Handbag
    5. Motion Picture

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    • Posts: 1,534
      people still have ice boxes? They really need to get a refrigerator! ( and it is spelled that way)
    • Posts: 11,417 Member
      I feel antiquated. I still say department store.
    • Posts: 2,304 Member
      Britches
      Devan
      Veranda
    • Posts: 9,543 Member
      Stockings
    • Posts: 9,543 Member
      Brassiere

      As as kid I thought that was such a funny word. :laugh:
    • Posts: 5,883
      Darn (as in, darning socks)
    • 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.
    • Posts: 9,543 Member
      I feel antiquated. I still say department store.

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

      Ummm I saw department store too lol...

      ~Leash :heart:
    • Posts: 2,456 Member
      I mean say not saw.. obviously!
    • Posts: 95
      :blushing: I'm a teen and I say department store. What's it called now?
    • 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:
    • Posts: 11,417 Member
      beauty parlor?
    • 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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    • 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)
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      Barber shop.
      Record store
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      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...
    • Posts: 18,702 Member
      cook, sew, clean.............Oh you mean not just me?:tongue:
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      Record store

      :sad:
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      Waste Basket (Grandma used to tell me to throw my garbage in the waste basket)
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      clicker
      glove box
    • Posts: 817 Member
      I thought you put your pocketbook in your hand bag. Pocket Book is the wallet and handbag is the purse
    • 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.
    • Posts: 1,405 Member
      My husband still says clicker ....its been awhile since they clicked though!:smile:
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