“Perhaps the use of “jalopy” depends on where once was born & raised.”
Could be. I grew up around a whole mess of older folks.
I wonder if anyone remembers the Rumble seat. They were gone by the time I made the scene but I remember the older folks talking about them.
Millenials and younger probably think it’s the stool boxers sit on between rounds.
“I wonder if anyone remembers the Rumble seat.”
I’ve ridden in a rumble seat-——great fun.
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I grew up with lots of "older folks" ( great grandmother, grandparents, great grand aunts & uncles, great aunts & uncles, and a slew of very much older cousins ), but I was really talking about location/ village/town/city/state.
I still use some rather "old fashioned" words/terms/phrases because I was extremely close to my grandparents and just learned them whilst learning how to talk; not to mention the fact that all the adults I grew up around had HUGE vocabularies, used them, and never talked down to me.
How about a "running board"; do you know what that was? I loved looking at old family photos, so saw cars with with them, in many albums.
Millennials, even those who go/went to the very best schools, have VERY lacking verbal skills/vocabularies; sadly.
As the automobile liberated youth from front parlors, the rumble seat became scandalized as ‘portable bedrooms.’
Soon auto manufacturers reduced the width of rumble seats to make it less possible to lie down in them.