Memories........ 1955

Wumbey Goomba · March-31-20 05:03

It's a Canadian thing.

OV-1D · March-31-20 05:03

I don't think so , not fair looking it up and telling , now . If that's so Wumbey explain yourself , please .

Wumbey Goomba · March-31-20 06:03

Constable on patrol
In Canada they're called Constables. 👮

ikoiko · March-31-20 07:03

Well, I used to think it was "Constable On Patrol". But that's not it.
Also used to think another word was an acronym "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge", but that's wrong too.

OV-1D · March-31-20 08:03

It has something to do with a kind of metal ,now that's a big clue .

barrytheprof · March-31-20 08:03

Copper badges?

Bigbird48 · March-31-20 08:03

Quote from: uncle_lee on March-30-20 04:03
Quote from: OLD and GRUMPY on March-29-20 17:03
You talked about the post office raising a stamp to 7 cents. I think that back then they delivered 2 times a day? That is stuck in my head.Might be wrong. OR all the stay at home house wives with no cell phones.

Might have been up to where you lived.
In 55, our postman left town at 8:00 AM and got back around 5:30 PM.
No way he could make 2 deliveries.

They were instructed to deliver letters frequently and promptly — generally twice a day to homes and up to four times a day to businesses. The second residential delivery was discontinued on April 17, 1950, in most cities

Bigbird48 · March-31-20 08:03

I haven't looked up COPs yet come on guys

OV-1D · March-31-20 08:03

Yup you got it Barry , the first badges in most cities were made of copper (stainless I don't believe was in existence back a hundred years or so ago and other metal were a little too expensive) thus the crooks would yell here come the coppers thus aka "Cops" was now added to Websters dictionary .

Wumbey Goomba · March-31-20 12:03

After asking Mr. Google.
It seems there is no real answer to where "Cops"
came from. Some say it's Constable on patrol,
some from badges or buttons, others from a Latin
word meaning to "seize". I guess it comes down to nobody
knows. It is interesting to read about.

Uncle_Lee · March-31-20 14:03

Quote from: Bigbird48 on March-31-20 08:03
Quote from: uncle_lee on March-30-20 04:03
Quote from: OLD and GRUMPY on March-29-20 17:03
You talked about the post office raising a stamp to 7 cents. I think that back then they delivered 2 times a day? That is stuck in my head.Might be wrong. OR all the stay at home house wives with no cell phones.

Might have been up to where you lived.
In 55, our postman left town at 8:00 AM and got back around 5:30 PM.
No way he could make 2 deliveries.
They were instructed to deliver letters frequently and promptly — generally twice a day to homes and up to four times a day to businesses. The second residential delivery was discontinued on April 17, 1950, in most cities

There were no double runs to our area in the 40's either.

ikoiko · March-31-20 15:03

Latin for "seize" makes sense. Slang for taking/stealing something is cop/copped.

glenn · March-31-20 17:03

Memories .... 1955 ....

Along about June of 1955, I remember going to the Drive-In Movie Show with my Dad & coming home with my Mom.

heyjoe · March-31-20 19:03

Quote from: glenn on March-31-20 17:03
Memories .... 1955 ....

Along about June of 1955, I remember going to the Drive-In Movie Show with my Dad & coming home with my Mom.

hahahaha

cfsharry · March-31-20 21:03

Here in WI, yes to twice daily mail deliveries.
Cop is short for copper. British Bobbies had copper badges.
Did anyone mention phosphates? Don't know if they are made anymore.

LHB · March-31-20 22:03

I have to agree with Uncle Lee, where I grew up, in 1955 we were lucky to get one delivery a day, if the roads were passable, and we had to go a quarter of a mile to the road intersection, where the boxes were. It there was a parcel post package, the carrier was allowed to drive the extra quarter mile to our house and back. Then in the sixties, the carrier was allowed to deliver all my folks mail to the box at the end of their drive. The carrier was a distant cousin of mine, and he bought a new car every year, due to the miles he put on them, six days a week.

RogueTS1 · April-02-20 08:04

I believe it was short for "Coppers" due to their copper badges? $:-\$

OV-1D · April-02-20 10:04

That is what I was led to believe Rogue . Copper badges , the cheapest good looking metal at the time , always read about the owners polishing them nice and shiny for visibility .

Pedaler · April-04-20 08:04

Cops is short for copper. If I remember correctly the slang came from England where the police wore badges made of copper.

Texduk3 · April-19-20 12:04

Quote from: Texduk3 on March-21-20 06:03
Quote from: barrytheprof on February-02-20 00:02
There are those who say you have to go to a Brooklyn diner for a real eggcream. They may be right.

What's a Mike man?

Had egg creams in the Bronx, I sat at the counter, and watched it being made. born in '55

theysayimnotme · April-19-20 14:04

Quote from: uncle_lee on January-31-20 05:01
I can't list all my 1955 memories.
It was a GOOD year.

Turn signals on a 55 VW Beetle??
If you were turning left, you turned on the left signal and a little "arm" would raise up out of the left door post. For the right, the right door post. After the turn, the little "arm" would drop back down.

When I was in Germany we called them mox nix sticks. Just because it popped out on the left side didn't mean they would turn left.
A lot of people didn't know which way to turn the knob. Do you go by the top of the knob or the bottom? I had a 1949 Bug while I was there.

theysayimnotme · April-19-20 15:04

I believe Cop came from Constable on Patrol. I remember my favorite lemon lime phosphate drink at the soda counter, to get two flavors I had to order the large ten cent size.
I always thought Harry Truman temporally stopped twice a day delivery because of the Korean "Police action" but when I just looked it up it was two months before that. They were/are? still using the same letter cases decades after that. Instead of one slot for each address now two addresses to each slot & you case mail left & right in the slot. How much easier it mu8st have been to know all the people on your route when you only had half as many stops, someone was usually home & everyone in the house had the same last name. Now with most of the mail already in delivery sequence the routes are much longer than when I retired.

barrytheprof · April-19-20 16:04

What area of the country called a soda a phosphate? Do they still use that term? I may start using it. It sounds erudite, like you should say it with your lips pursed.

theysayimnotme · April-20-20 01:04

phosphate
[ˈfäsfāt]

NOUN

dated
an effervescent soft drink containing phosphoric acid, soda water, and flavoring.

I haven't seen one since the soda fountains disappeared around sixty years ago.

Uncle_Lee · April-20-20 04:04

Quote from: theysayimnotme on April-19-20 14:04
Quote from: uncle_lee on January-31-20 05:01
I can't list all my 1955 memories.
It was a GOOD year.

Turn signals on a 55 VW Beetle??
If you were turning left, you turned on the left signal and a little "arm" would raise up out of the left door post. For the right, the right door post. After the turn, the little "arm" would drop back down.

When I was in Germany we called them mox nix sticks. Just because it popped out on the left side didn't mean they would turn left.
A lot of people didn't know which way to turn the knob. Do you go by the top of the knob or the bottom? I had a 1949 Bug while I was there.

I was low in the pecking order so I sat in the back seat.
We had a lot of fun in that little car.

Canoeal · April-20-20 07:04

I don't honestly remember 1955. After all, I was a 1yo..

Bigbird48 · April-20-20 08:04

Funny the things you remember from your child hood. I was 5 in 1955 and I remember the flood that took the back porch off my Grandfathers cabin. I can see him and my father up in the woods trying to get it back so they could attach it again. I remember him making a pencil mark about 6 feet up on one of the logs on the side of the cabin to show how high the water got.

OLD and GRUMPY · April-20-20 08:04

1955. I was three. I remember going to Disneyland on July 16. That was the day before the grand opening. They needed to do a dry run to see if everything worked so they packed it with the contractors,suppliers and there kids. My dad worked for one of the contractors.Someplace I have pics. https://www.google.com/search?q=disneyland+opening+day&client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=ALeKk01QiLEBkjewERsParMnO9NiJ-uDcA:1587396786627&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiijtbsqffoAhXSPH0KHfg_B4YQ_AUoAXoECCEQAw&biw=1366&bih=654

Bigbird48 · April-20-20 09:04

That must have been exciting

OLD and GRUMPY · April-20-20 12:04

Too young to understand.

Uncle_Lee · April-20-20 13:04

Quote from: OLD and GRUMPY on April-20-20 08:04
1955. I was three. I remember going to Disneyland on July 16. That was the day before the grand opening. They needed to do a dry run to see if everything worked so they packed it with the contractors,suppliers and there kids. My dad worked for one of the contractors.Someplace I have pics. https://www.google.com/search?q=disneyland+opening+day&client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=ALeKk01QiLEBkjewERsParMnO9NiJ-uDcA:1587396786627&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiijtbsqffoAhXSPH0KHfg_B4YQ_AUoAXoECCEQAw&biw=1366&bih=654

You may be Grumpy, but you ain't old....