The lost Model A vocabulary

[700rpm]

I was thinking today about words and phrases that were common in the Model A era, and how they have all but disappeared from our everyday language. For example:

Tin Lizzy
Flivver
Oh You Kid!
Swell
So's yer old man
Flapper
Shingle-bob haircut
Jalopy
Bowler (hat)
Cat's Meow
Cat's Pajamas
Cat's Whiskers
Hootch
Gat
Spats
Swank (and Swanky)

I'm sure there are others. Anybody want to share what they remember?

 

[newshirt]

Jeepers creepers, where'd ya get those peepers?

 

[james hitchcock]

What about Daddy-O. Actually my daughter keeps that one alive. I'm always called Daddy-O.

 

[kp]

Hubba ,hubba .

 

[gweilbaker]

I'm much obliged sir.

 

[Roadster62]

Gas is going to eighteen cents a gallon!

 

[700rpm]

Those are good. How about:
Gas war
Knickers
Newsboy
Golly!
Soda jerk

 

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Those are good. How about:
Gas war
Knickers
Newsboy
Golly!
Soda jerk

TURTLE SHELL (trunk)
TOE SACK
POKE (paper bag)(not poke salad)
FROG STICKER (cheap pocket knife)
SLOP BUCKET (kitchen wastes for the hogs)
SQUIRREL & DUMPLIN'S (delicacy!)

 

[mnherb]

Here is the definitive list: http://local.aaca.org/bntc/slang/slang.htm

There are some doozies in here!

 

[Ken B]

And then there's:
Hootenannay
Jittney Bus
Flim Flam Man
Dame
Boogie-Woogie
Hep Cat
Juke Joint
Vamp
Mickey-Finn
Moxie
Speakeasy
Dizzy with the Dames
Gin Joint
Hooch
Double Cross
Hotsy Totsy
Rot Gut Bathtub Gin
Pip
Scram
23-skidoo
Trip the light fantastic
G-Man
Flatfoot, Gumshoe
Peachy Keen
Clam-bake
Bee's Knees
On the lam
Spiffy
Nifty
Heebie-Jeebies

 

[Roland/Pittsburgh]

How about "dear" meaning expensive or valuable?

 

[Mike V. Florida]

Here's another site;

http://www.sagedragonfly.com/sayings/1930s_slang.htm

 

[700rpm]

Those web sites are the berries! Just bully!

 

[allison-tech]

HOT DOG!......Yowza,Yowza,Yowza !

 

[Chris Haynes]

Gas is going to eighteen cents a gallon!

Gas was $.12 9/10 when I was in high school in the '60's.

 

[Hicktick]

I remember pumping Esso Extra when it went to , 36.9 , I think reg. was 29.9 .

You could pump some in a glass jar and it looked like tea .

 

[John Kennedy]

I'll add "Please" and "Thank you" to the list, please.

Thank you!

 

[kp]

some day gas is gonna be fifty cents a gallon .

 

[Gary/IA]

some day gas is gonna be fifty cents a gallon .

Would that have been "Regular" or "Ethyl"?

 

[Purdy Swoft]

The cheapest gas that I remember here in Alabama, in the sixties was 29.9 regular, 31.9 ethyl. In 1972 gas prices dropped to a low of .25 cents per gallon. I remember filling several 55 gallon drums, because I didn't figure the low price would hold for long. The best that I remember, it stayed at 25 cents pe r gallon for over a year. At the time regular was 94 octain and ethyl was 100. I remember visable gas pumps in the very early fifties in remote places.