Updated Directory Pages

 

For those of you who purchased directories, I have handed out or mailed the updated pages. If the information on your page needs to be changed on the next update, please let me know. 

 

Mary

Did you ever wait at the street for your daddy to come home, so you could ride the 'running board' up to   the house?
  
Here’s a phrase I heard all the time in my youth but never anymore - 'store-bought.'  Of course, just about everything is store-bought these days.  But once it was bragging material to have a store-bought dress or a store-bought bag of candy.
  
‘Coast to coast' is a phrase that once held all sorts of excitement and now means almost nothing. Now we take the term 'world wide' for granted. This floors   me.
 

On a smaller scale, 'wall-to-wall' was once a magical term in our homes.  In the '50s, everyone covered his or her hardwood floors with, wow, wall-to-wall carpeting!  Today, everyone replaces their wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors.  Go figure.
  
I always loved going to the 'picture show,' but I considered 'movie' an affectation.
 
Most of these words go back to the '50s, but here's a  pure-'60s word I came across the other day - 'rat   fink.'  Ooh, what a nasty put-down!
  
Here’s a word I miss - 'percolator.' That was just a fun word to say. And what was it replaced with?   'Coffee maker.'  How dull. Mr. Coffee, I blame you for this.
  
I miss those made-up marketing words that were meant to sound so modern and now sound so retro. Words like ' Fordamatic ' and 'Electrolux.'  Introducing the 1963 Admiral TV, now with 'SpectraVision!'
  
Food for thought - Was there a telethon that wiped out lumbago? Nobody complains of that anymore.    Maybe that's what castor oil cured, because I never hear mothers threatening kids with castor oil anymore.
 
Some words aren't gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most is ‘supper.'  Now everybody says 'dinner.'  Save  a great word. Invite someone to supper.  Discuss fender skirts.