The other day someone asked me how I liked a restaurant I recently visited. During the course of the conversation I heard myself using “old school” and “back in the day”. I wondered to myself when these two phrases had crept into my vocabulary. This led me down a rabbit hole of thinking about all the words of my youth that I would so easily bandy about. When did I stop using these words? Did I just one day wake up and not use or even think about using or remembering some of these words:
- groovy
- cool beans
- go go boots
- bee hive hairdo
- smokes
- O P’s
- draft dodger
- tricky dicky
- bra burner
- a happening
- 8 track
- mix tape
- Member’s Only Jacket
Do you remember this hairstyle? 
- flip – I was always in search of the perfect flip.
SUNRISE, SUNSET
SWIFTLY PASS THE PHRASE
ONE WORD FOLLOWING ANOTHER
LADEN WITH HAPPINESS AND TEARS.
Wishing you words filled with happy memories,
Bernadette
How about copacetic? I love that one! I’m so sure…
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every thing is copacetic. Loved that one.
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Know them all except O.P.s and cool beans. Many of those phrases were attached to fashion and the technology of the times, and they changed. Changes in language follow changes in life, I think.
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I still say ‘Cool Beans’! 🙂
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If you’d use them now, the younger generation would not understand what you’re saying—ha ha!!
jodie
http://www.jtouchofstyle.com
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I still say, “Cool beans!” – but your list made me laugh, good memories to many of these!
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This is such fun, and I too still say ‘cool beans’, but the grand-girls look at me funny when I do. Those hair styles I remember, but never did I have one, too much trouble! Did you?
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I tried but was never very successful.
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Speaking of hairstyles what about the DA or pompadour? Thanks for the trip. I did use most of those phrases. Wonder what phrases of today will be relegated to memories in the future?
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Where did you find those pictures of me? I just wished my hair had looked like that ‘back in the day’.
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Yup… I remember it all… and then some… I had lots of flips, especially when I slept in my rollers…
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I remember the hairstyle, there was only one girl in my school who could do it perfectly like that, we all envied her. Being British, several of those phrases are ‘foreign’ to me but I do remember groovy – we had ‘gear’ and ‘fab’ too – and Tricky Dicky. I also remember white GoGo Boots but I was a little young, so didn’t have any. My son uses fab quite a bit, I suppose words like fashions get recyled every so often.
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I forgot about fab
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One of my characters in my Super Spies series says cool beans! I really love that phrase! 🙂
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You got me at O P’s Bernadette but the others I remember them well. I have a new challenge for the month of May that you may be interested in: http://beyondliteracylink.blogspot.com/2016/05/spring-gallery-invitation.html.
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Maybe it’s a Philly thing, Bern…no one understands O P, but I do!
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It must be a local thing.
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And everyone knows that the perfect flip was obtained by rinsing out orange juice cans, rolling your hair on them at the bottom, and securing them with “clippies.” It was a happenin’ thing! With a little Dippety Do to sculpt the bangs! 😉
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And toilet paper rolls in a pinch.
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Phrases come and go, wonder what the kids of today will be pondering in their future. O P’s is unknown to me too.
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O.P’s must have been a local Philadelphia area expression – it means other people’s. It referred to people who never bought cigarettes but only smoked other people’s.
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haha this was fun Bernadette!
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Lovely memories. My mother had wigs in this design and looking at this, I could picture her in my mind wearing them with those wide floor-length trousers 🙂
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Loved reading this slice of words and phrases. And reading the comments – Dippity Do was such a staple of our lives. Used it to try to flatten out my curls back in the day.
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