12 Photos of Vintage RV Campers That Will Take You Back To The Best Times Of Your Life
By: By Moojan
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12 Photos of Vintage RV Campers That Will Take You Back To The Best Times Of Your Life
Road trips were the best if you had one of these!
When we were kids, our favorite thing in the world was going on road trips. If they were a surprise, even better!
Traveling in a car just didn't have the same feeling to it. An RV camper or a teardrop trailer on the back of your truck was the only way you could actually have a memorable summer holiday.
Here are 12 photos of vintage RV campers that will take you back to some of the best times of your life.
1. There was no shortage of these on the roads during the summer times.
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2. The GMC motorhome looks small from the outside, but was HUGE on the inside. Also, did yours always smell musty?
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3. The VW Beetle bug campers were the "cutesy" thing to own.
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4. The 1953 35' Vagabond was literally a house on wheels.
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5. This '70s RV bus makes going to school seem fun.
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We all wanted at least one of these next ones!
6. These caravans were super popular and a much cheaper alternative than having a massive RV.
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7. This was like stepping inside a time capsule.
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8. You either loved or hated these trailers when it rained.
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9. Compact vans were only cute and nothing else.
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10. Camping just isn't the same without one of these.
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11. The teardrop trailers were arguably the best campers created.
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12. The Benroy teardrop trailer has stood the test of time. Do you agree?
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Did your family own any of these RV campers?
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We never had an RV or a camper trailer, and the closest thing I ever had to it was a round red pop-up tent that was only big enough to sleep 2. When I and a girl friend camped at the small Beers Family Fox Hollow Folk Festival in upstate New York it earned the nickname of 'The Snoring Tomato'. When my marriage was breaking up before the thought of China came up I wanted to buy a small one-person sized RV and travel in it all over Canada and the USA, but then the opportunity arose to go teach English in China so my RV rambling never happened.
I've never owned-- or even been inside-- one of these.
I did go camping in the High Sierras with my uncle and cousin. We stayed in a large tent.
The air was amazing, and the scenery was breath-taking!
I spent six months exploring New England in a small camper the year after I retired. So, been there. Done that. Many good memories, but it is not cheap and is really exhausting. Just setting up and breaking camp plus all the complications of dealing with plumbing, heating and refrigeration systems is real work. Also, rental for nice spots can cost as much as a hotel room. Still, I don't regret it...
If the movie RV is any example, I guess I know what you mean.
I had a really nice new truck and camper. After a while we ended up staying in motels while the camper set in the parking lot just because it was such a hassle to set up and break camp, plus the cost of a good spot with hookups was almost the same.
Maybe my idea of roaming the USA and Canada in an RV wasn't such a good idea.
Long ago I went cross country in a Red Rambler convertible (I don't remember the model or whether it was a 2 door or 4 door but it look something like this):
We didn't even consider a camper trailer-- we stayed in cheap hotels. (We researched them thoroughly-- the ones we found were pretty good).
There were 4 of us-- myself and girlfriend plus another couple who owned the car. It was a wonderful trip!
When we got to Colorado we split up-- they wanted to go to California, we wanted to see Mexico.
We had to cross two states to get to the border: Colorado and New Mexico. We found out we could hitch-hike in one, but that was illegal in the other one, so there we took a bus to the border.(I forget which was which, it was long ago).
Convertibles are normally 2-door.
I don't think I ever hitch-hiked in my life.
There were days I did it for hours. A lot of people picked us up because back then there were a lot of students from all over the world hitching around Europe and the middle East and North Africa.
We all wore flags on the back of our knapsacks to show what countries we were from. Sometimes people would pick us up, and stop for lunch and treat up to lunch.Some interesting conversations for both the hitchikers and those who picked us up.
I don't remember if I told you this story-- but like most (all?) American hitchikers, I wore a Canadian flag not an American one.
Guess why?!!?!
As I was reading your comment, when I got to the words "We all wore flags on the back of our knapsacks to show what countries we were from." I knew what I was going to reply to you and obviously you knew as well. Back then Americans were not liked for certain reasons, such as their considering themselves superior, and sometimes crass behaviour. So Americans tried to pass themselves off as Canadians, who were, as you know, very polite and considered by others to be so.
Hehehe!
Well, you know the olde saying:
No one knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men!
That makes sense.
That is something I didn't know (I actually not much of an expert on cars).
That makes sense. And may be part of it.
But there was another major reason. (I guess it was an unfair question, because I didn't mention the time period).
it was during The War in Vietnam. And most Europeans were highly opposed to that-- in many cases disliking Americans because of that war.
If we hitchhiked with American flags, many people would not have picked us up. (Even though I was strongly opposed to that war-- even participated in demonstrations against it-- Europeans would of had no way of knowing that).
In retrospect, there was a lot of specialized knowledge re: hirchiking that I eventually learned.
For example. doing it as a lone male, lone female, or one of each.
-Single female: most people would pick them up but of course most single women didn't feel safe-- so definitely better to go as a man and a women together. (Or even two women together rather than one).
-Single male: More common, but not ideal. Many single men met a single women just to travel with-- not for any relationship, sex, etc- but many drivers who might have been afraid of single men (possible crime?) felt safer if a man was accompanied by a women.-
Male and Female together-- probably the best but often harder to arrange.
Also some countries were safer than others.
In retrospect, there was a lot of specialized knowledge re: hirchiking that I eventually learned.
For example. doing it as a lone male, lone female, or one of each.
Of now-a-days none of this would be easy.
In part because you's have to take into consideration not only off biological sex-- but what sex (or sexes!) someone identifies as!!!
A few NT members are experts in car lore - I'm not one as well. In High School I had a choice from 3 options: Woodworking, Motor Mechanics or Commercial. Those who chose woodworking got to build a chair or some similar thing, Motor Mechanics they took apart and put together a car engine, but I chose Commercial and learned some simple accounting and how to touch type, i.e. all fingers on the keys and I don't need to look at the keyboard and can type fairly quickly, which serves me a lot better today that the others would have.
I can understand that. I had a lot of friends who were draft dodgers from that war, a couple of whom I went into ;partnership with and we opened the Toronto Folklore Centre which was a successful enterprise. I had another make me a fabulous leather jacket that has ended up with my son. Good people.
Yes, logical.
At the time I had several friends who were draft dodgers. A few crossed the border into Canada and I never heard from them again.
In my Junior year I went to Europe with three friends. Two of us spent a whole month in Paris attending the Sorbonne. after a month of true conversational French, two of us hithiked down the Spanish coast and then ferried to Morocco.
I was very political and very left wing at the time (very much a believing "Socialist") , so I went to Israel to work on a Kibbutz.(Which was beyond Socialism-- it was actually democratic Communism!)
But one of the four did something really interesting. To avoid the draft he didn't want to return to the states. So he bought a motorcycle in Paris and said he was going to immigrate to Australia and become a citizen!.
He traveled through Europe, through Turkey-- and actually rode his bike through Afghanistan (even back then a very dangerous place-- lots of bandits, etc).
He then rode though South-east Asia (avoiding Viet-Nam-- all of this was during the Viet-Nam war!!!) and IIRC took a boat to the tip of Northern Australia (Darwin).
Yes, he biked all the way from Paris to Southeast Asia and then a boat ride to Darwin. Yes-- all during the Viet Nom war!
We wrote each other letters for a few months, then lost touch. For all I know he's living happily in Australia as a citizen!
My family had a tent trailer when I was a kid and I had one just like the one above in my twenties. I always liked them because of the ventilation, you open up the windows and it's like sleeping in a screenhouse the breeze just blows right through.
Sleeping in a screenhouse invokes a wonderful memory for me. When I was a little kid I spent school summer vacations at my grandmother's beach cottage. I used to sleep on the couch on the screened-in porch at the front of the cottage, that faced south-west looking over Burlington Bay and I would watch the sunset lighting the ripples on the water and enjoy the cooling westerly breezes It was exciting when there was a storm, and the leaves on the tall poplar trees would rustle and turn over to show their shiny side. Great memories.
The day after finals were over (this was at UNC Chapel Hill) several carloads of us drove to North Carolina's outer banks. We slept on the dunes-- no house or motel! The air was invigorating but there was a problem-- Mosquitos!
For my of my traveling back then I slept mostly in youth hostels. They were clean and very, very inexpensive.
Another advantage of hostels-- in every one we met other kids who had just come from place we were going to-- so we got up to date information about places to stay, good restaurants, and which tourist sites were worthwhile!
However there was another beach I slept on beside the Outer banks-- when we reached Gibraltar we went around the back of the big rock and slept on the beach there!
Screens can be helpful. We have no screens here but we're on the 15th floor. However, because there can still be the odd mosquito or other little flying bug I have a special light beside my bed that attracts them and when they fly into it they are zapped. It's rarely needed, maybe two or three times a week at most. The zap can be loud and it actually woke me up at 5 this morning.
I only had a short stopover in Gibralter. It was on my way from Spain to Morocco. Makes me think of the Alec Guiness movie Captain's Paradise.
I have one of those. Very effective.
And yes-- the zaps are very loud!
Mozzies are nothing..wait till a blowie (blowfly) flies into one..
Not to mention the smell..
I didn't know what that a Blowfly was so I googled it.
OMG-- they sound horrible!
In making the ferry trip between Europe and North Africa in that area, there are actually two ports-- two cities-- on each continent where you can get a ferry. On the European side there is, of course Gibraltar.where you can get a ferry to the African side. But in addition. also on the European side, right across the Bay of Gibraltar there is the Spanish city of Algeciris-- which also has ferry service to Aftica.
On the African side,there are also two ports-- both have ferry service to Europe (to either Algeciris or Gibraltar). IIRC one is Tangier which is, of course, part of Morocco. In addition, there is another city on the Moroccan coast called Ceuta-- is is actually part of Spain.
I don't think there are blowflies here - don't think I've EVER seen a blowfly.
There is a time of year in Ontario when the blackfiles are murderous, mostly in wooded areas. There is even a song about them "The Blackllies of Ontario". It's during a short time during the Spring, and you don't dare go out uncovered, even with wearing a hat with a net to surround your head.
I crossed to Tangier.
I assume the beds were in the extensions.
Yes, there are actually three beds two are the extensions and the other is on the left side where the table is and it can be dropped down even with the benches and becomes a third bed.
Me and my brother borrowed our grampa's compact van camper one summer vacay to do a roadtrip. It could sleep two, had a little storage and sink area and not much else. Anyway he hooked up with a sweet young thing in Thunder Bay and left me to make my own way home to London. Fun times.
I didn't know you were a Canadian, or was it just your grandpa? I lived in London for a year when I was a freshman at University of Western Ontario. If I can remember, my best friend and I lived in a basement apartment on Regent Street that was within walking distance of teh university.
As I may have mentioned before (?) when I was in college (undergrad) I hitchhiked around western Europe, spent some time North Africa (Morocco & Egypt and Israel).
I spent some time in England. mainly London, also Cornwall.
I really like England-- although for some reason their command of the English language is not as good as Americans'.
They don't know the correct names of ordinary objects (for example the name of certain parts of cars) and they misspell words (ex: "colour" instead of "color).
But those faults are minor.
All in all I'm sorry I didn't see mores of the country-- and missed Wales, Scotland, and Ireland entirely.
I, too, spent time in London, England, but the London I was speaking about was London, Ontario. Ontario has cities named London and Paris, and before WW2 one called Berlin but when the war started the government renamed it Kitchener, after the British Lord Kitchener.
Okay, so the Brits use words like "boot" for trunk and "lorry" for truck and they and Canadians and Australians and all Commonwealth countries use the "u" more, and double the "L" more but they were speaking the English language long before the Americans were, and they didn't need to "simplify" the spelling to make it easier for persons with lesser cerebral capacity.
Really? I though we had discussed this before. I'm actually a dual citizen and was born in the USA to Canadian parents working there, when I was 3 and half we moved back to Canada and I have been here ever since except for a 4 year posting to Germany and a few tours in Cyprus, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan for work. Odd story due to being born out of country I actually had to become a landed immigrant at 19 before becoming a Canadian citizen at 21, a lot of us military brats had to do this to officially be citizens.
I was a military brat so we moved around a lot, but London (and area) was what I considered my hometown (we probably lived there a total of eight years)
My first wife and I had a wonderful time in Wales. On Christmas eve we drove around a town called Ruthin looking for a place to stay and everythng was filled. By the time we were driving out of town we could see sheep in the fields and there was one house where a man was taking down his B&B "Vacancy" sign. I stopped and told him we couldn't find anywhere to stay, and if he had a manger we would sleep in it (I really did say that). He told us he just gave up the last bedroom to an American couple, but asked us to come inside. HIs wife saw us and said to her husband, they could stay over in THEIR bedroom, and they would sleep in the attic - can you believe how wonderful they were? They trusted us entirely - even her jewelry was left on her dresser.
In the morning they, the American couple and we enjoyed a nice breakfast that they made us, and they told us that there was to be a famed Medieval Dinner at Ruthin Castle that evening. We all went to it - it was an amazing experience. A meal similar to what would have been served hundreds of years ago was served and mead was poured in our chalices by maidens in Medieval dress while Medieval music filled the hall.
After breakfast the next morning we were going to leave, and without our knowing our host had drawn and written out a mapped guide for us to drive across to Canaerfon Castle and the town with the longest name in the world on the coast. When we left Canada I had bought at the duty-free store and we had with us an unopened expensive giant-sized bottle of Canada's most famous whiskey - Crown Royal. I paid for our stay and I gave the whiskey as a gift to the couple who were so kind and so good to us. I will never forget them.
Sorry, Freefaller, but I guess at my age I tend to forget some things. Okay, I guess Hallux is Canadian as well so that makes three of us that I know of. I wonder if there are any more. There used to be a couple of others but they're gone or passed away.
I guess you're aware that Justin may not survive the next election. His dad was the last Liberal I ever voted for - thought he was the best PM Canada ever had. Met him at a party in Westmount years later when he was no longer with Margaret and I was accompanied by my daughter who was at McGill at the time. He hit on her, unsuccessfully, but at least he showed he had very good taste.
Morning Krishie...what us mob can't spell proper??... it's you mob that hacked it up...
Buzz and I speak and spell proper English...you can ask Devangy that..
We may have slightly changed a few words but us mob down here speak the Queen's English..it will never be King's that really grates..😬😬
So "U" rules... colour harbour and who spells cancelled with one "l".🙄
We have a lot of cities and even small towns named after those in foreign countries.
Long ago I discovered there's a Moscow Texas. I later googled it-- amzing how many "Moscows" there are in the U.S:
There are more than 20 towns in America called Moscow. Why is that?
I was surprised at the reason for there being so many Moscows i n the U.S.
I've never heard "mob" used that way. And I don't think I've ever heard "hacked it up" at all!
I assume those two are Australian-- but not British or Canadian?
I think I'm pretty good at recognizing accents. I think I can tell which is which: is American, British, South Africa, Canadian (aside from the accent there's an easy clue-- Canadians say "eh?" every few words!)
Canadians have a reputation for being overly polite -- I don't know if that's true.
I think I'm pretty good at recognizing accents. I think I can tell which is which: is American, British, South Africa, Canadian (aside from the accent there's an easy clue-- Canadians say "eh?" every few words!)
As I remember, there seems to be many variations of a "British" accent, and actually there many variations in the states.(i think there's a distinct accent from Chicago and vicinity,.)
Also in my experience there's a distinct variation between North African Arabic accents (or at least Egyptian) and Arabic from further East (Jordan, Syria, etc.)
I have seen some Welsh words-- many are incredibly long!
My English is very American, although for some reason I've always spelled cancelled with two lls.
Here's a quiz (for Americans) that claims to be able to tell what part of the U.S. a person lives in:
This Is A Dialect Quiz — I Can Guess Exactly Where You Live With A Few Questions
It'll take 40 questions, but I think I can do it — oh, and don't forget: There are no right or wrong answers. The only requirement is honesty. Are you ready?
I'm honoUred to have you as a Commonwealth partner.
For some weird reason when I click on your linked words all it does is reopen this article again.
I think just Australian.
Here are a couple examples of polite Canadian protesters.
You lost me on that one.
They shortened the name to LanfairPG.
Do you have an accent?
That link opens a site called BUZZFEED. Don't worry, I just ate lunch and I'm fine.
Lunch!!! I am thinking about tea..
Aussie to the eyeballs..🦘
By tea do you mean an afternoon tea break, or do you mean dinner? It can have either interpretation.
No here it's breakfast (brekkie), morning tea (smoko), lunch, afternoon tea, (arvo tea), then tea..which many refer to here now as dinner which is American...
So when I was a kid it was always breakfast, lunch and tea...and you went out to dinner to a restaurant etc..times change...
And on that note I say good night and don't let the bed bugs bite..😁
I Took it and it it was right, said I live in Virginia
So much tea, and I'm not a tea drinker. Is there a difference between dinner and supper?
It told me I'm from South Carolina. I'm from West Virginia.
In my family, dinner was closer to midday, and supper was an evening meal.
Lunch is midday meal, supper is evening meal and dinner can be either if it is a big or special meal.
The same in my family. Breakfast was catch as catch can. Both Mom and Dad had always had busy school, work and social schedules. Mom had help when we were little but we soon learned to fend for ourselves in the morning and generally ate lunch at school. "Dinner" was something other families had at 6:00 PM. Out family meal was "Supper" which was served after Daddy got home which was usually around dark thirty. In Summer it was normal to eat at 9:30 PM...
And yes, we said our pleases and thank yous and "would you pass the potatoes". No elbows were on the table and you'd get in trouble for not thanking Mom for a delicious meal...
Breakfast on weekdays was cereal and toast. Weekends, we had eggs, bacon or sausage, biscuits, fried potatoes. Sometimes pancakes.
Lunch was either a sack lunch or school lunch. On weekends, breakfast was usually late, so we skipped lunch.
"Supper" was at 4, which was when we kids and Dad all got home from work or school. When we were in high school, and all in sports or choir after school, it moved to a later hour. It stayed later because Mom went back to work and Dad can't boil water.
And now that my parents are pretty much empty-nesters (my sister is living with them, but only for a few months), breakfast is cereal and toast, and "dinner", which is now the last meal of the day, is at 3 or so, when Dad gets home from the golf course.
All politcians and by extension all politics suck so I ignore it all as much as possible and prefer not to discuss it either
I apologize for correcting you but it's mosly true. Thank you and have a pleasant day
Sometimes I feel like I have a very juvenile sense of humor.
(But of course I don't care!
)
I've heard those terms used in different ways by different people. I think its a "regionalism"-- that is to say that even though those are all in English, the words may be used differently in different parts of the country (in this case the U.S.).
Here's another example: Is a carbonated soft drink (Coke, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, etc) called a "soda"-- or is it called "pop"? In different parts of the country it's called different things.
And here's one that IIRC can be called one of 5 different things in different parts of the country: running shoes, athletic shoes, sneakers (and I think there are one or two other names).
No problem! I have no problem with being corrected. (Some people are obsessed with "being right"/-- I'm not)
Perhaps one of the causes of all the stupid partisan arguments one occasionally sees on social media sites...? (The need to "be right"-- or perhaps more accurately "to obsessive need to "make the other person wrong")
Was that a scary place to be?
LOL!!!
I had always thought the two words were interchangeable.
Thanks for pointing that out. I had put in the wrong link-- this one should work:
There are more than 20 towns in America called Moscow. Why is that?
Actually its a pretty interesting article-- not what I had expected at all.
I think it goes back to England, and it mostly persisted in country families. Your favorite author (and mine), Jane Austen, used "supper" to refer to a meal served later than dinner, after an evening party. I remember when reading the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, she used the terms in the same way - dinner was a mid-day meal, and supper was at night. There is a very informative book about the Regency and Victorian periods and their customs called "What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew." If you can obtain a copy, I think you'd enjoy it. According to its glossary:
We country folks in the US have a tendency to stick to the older usages we brought with us, so in my family, it was "breakfast, dinner, and supper" when I was growing up. Now "dinner" and "supper" are pretty much interchangeable.
Mine was not exactly accurate-- but it was close.
It said New Jersey.
I think it was only partialy accurate-- I've lived in several cities up and down the East coast-- and inland. So I probably picked up more than one word from by living indifferent areas.
And when I learned two different words (from two different areas) I probably preferred the word from one area-- but in some cases from another.
P.S: Some of New Jersey is a suburb of NYC_- so probably people there pick up some NYC words as well as Northern NJ words.
Trivia of the day: A small portion of southern NJ actually lies south of the original Mason-Dixon line!
That's also the way I think about it. I always had thought we had three meals: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. But later the third one was called either Dinner or Supper.
I always though of Tea or teatime as exclusively British. Late afternoon I believe-- tea of course and an assortment of small pastries.
I had summered in Fire Island for a few years. In the two gay communities there (Fire Island Pines and Cherry grove) they have "Tea Dance". It took place in the discos there in the late afternoon -- people got stoned out of their mind (in those days the drugs of choice were Cocaine and sometimes Quaaludes although IIRC 'ludes were mostly in the straight communities))--- and went dancing in their fabulous discos. (Back then discos were still "a thing"-- before they became "Clubs".
No actual tea...or crumpets.
Most were looking for "Mr Right" (and barring that, hoping to find "Mr 'Right Now'")
So after Supper (at 4) you didn't eat another evening meal-- didn't eat again 'till breakfast?
ROTFLMAO
It could not have been more mistaken. The answer I got was California.
@ sandy 4.1.34
LOL, a superb schedule and menu variations.
We'd usually have a snack while watching TV later in the evening.
reply to Freefaller @ 4.1.35
Your preference is understandable. No problem.
Actually the point I was trying to make is that in addition to an accent being recognizabe as being from a particular country, in some countries there are very different accents in different parts.
For example, people in China might recognizesomeone as having an "American accent"-- the "music" of American accents are different than thos of China.
But in addition there are differentAmerican accents-- some quite different than each other (for example the difference between a Southern accent and one from the Northern states.
But in addition to that, there are nuances-- for example there are more subtle differences in Southern accents depending on the part of the South.
And even a "Northern accent" in the U.S.-- that can befurther broken down: a Bahston (AKA "Boston")accent definitely different than a Brooklyn accent.
The same is true in other accents-- for example even in the same language, Castillian Spanish is a variation that sounds to non-Spanish speakers as a lisp.
reply to Krishna @ 4.1.37
I don't care either.
reply to Krishna @ 4.1.39
I always thought that it's called "soda" in America and "pop" in Canada. Maybe people who live near the border call it "soda pop".
Not really, I was a little nervous the first couple of patrols but after that it just became normal work. Lol, however when an IED went off your heartrate definately went up
Mostly I found the place to be interesting and a little strange
reply to Krishna @ 4.1.40
I always thought that "sneakers" differed from "running shoes" because the sides were more like regular shoes like loafer in that their sides were lower.
reply to Krishna @ 4.1.41
Good analysis, i agree with it entirely - lots of examples of it here on NT.
Morning..I did that quiz as well and I think I caused it to melt down..
There was no answer for me...don't know why..🤣
It's "pop" in West Virginia, too. I have to switch back and forth from that to "soda" when I leave Virginia and visit family in WV.
Morning..nah you are both wrong..
Everyone knows it's called soft drink..geezzz...
reply to Krishna @ 4.1.45
LOL. That link is for a source that is blocked here. I imagine one of the reasons for naming a place after a foreign capital is because there could be a lot of residents living there who emigrated from or are descendants of ones who emigrated from that particular nation.
reply to Krishna @ 4.1.48
I have pretty well the same understanding as Krishna on the meal nomenclature. I do think though that when I was a kid the evening meal at home was "supper" but if we went out for it, it was "dinner". For example, people could throw a "dinner party', but nobody would call it a "supper party".
Morning...we don't really do supper here..if you stuff your face after tea well it's just basically called that stuffing your face..
It was almost frowned upon especially when we were kids..use to get asked didn't you have enough tea?.well you will get more tomorrow night..yeah great more vegetables..
Snacking in between meals was also frowned upon as was eating food in the street..
Here, the only time we have a meal called "tea" is at a fancy resort hotel. The Homestead in Virginia serves High Tea in its Great Hall every day at 4 PM, but it's more like the British tradition of afternoon tea than high tea. Basically, it's tea and cookies (biscuits to you Commonwealth folks).
No.
I don't have any easily recognizable regional accent (Boston, Southern, New York or Brooklyn, Mountain etc).
Recognizable as generally American (and I might conceivably pass for being from some part of Canada?).
reply to Krishna @ 4.1.54
A Chinese person may not be able to tell the difference between specific accents like between a person from Mississippi and a person from Maine, or if they are from Canada or America, but Chinese people also speak with specific dialects depending on where they are from. My wife speaks Mandarin in the normal manner when speaking to others from elsewhere, but she can also use a Chongqing dialect when speaking to a fellow Chongqing person.
reply to shona1 @ 4.1.60
I think it only works for the USA.
reply to shona1 @ 4.1.62
Maybe in Australia it's more important to distinguish it from "hard drinks". LOL
Much if not most of the midwest calls it pop.
Soda pop. Pop for short.
Different states in the United States use different terms for soft drinks:
Morning Sandy..yes we have that here high teas at restaurants etc..costs an arm and a leg (very expensive)..
Yes I thought that but I wanted to see what it would do..
The silence was golden..🤣🤣
Tea as in a drink and the evening meal so had two meanings..
At the moment I am having smoko..(morning tea)...a cappuccino and a slice of cold pizza...yep can hear the groans from here...
Love cold pizza room temperature not out of the fridge.. don't know what you are missing..
Yes-- that sounds very British!
Same.
To shona and sandy:
Yeah, microwaving it does something bad to it, so cold out of the fridge is the right thing to do.
I think shona and I both prefer to leave it out of the fridge, too. If you have pizza with cured meats, it can stay out overnight.
To reheat pizza (if you MUST reheat it) without making the crust go soggy, put it in a skillet on the stovetop on low heat. That heats it through while keeping the crust crispy.
Good. We usually have some left over when we have pizza, so I'll try that method.
I think people know that but its sort of "formal".
People who call it "soda" might say:
Could you get me a soda from the 'frig?"
But not:
Could you get me a soft drink from the 'frig?
Unless they were Canadian, if which case being that they are polite they would say
Could you please get me a soda from the 'frig?..."
In fact after they did that, Canadians (being polite as they are) might even say "Thank you"!)
In fact after they did that, Canadians (being polite as they are) might even say "Thank you"!)
Then there are some Noo Yawkers who think its really uncool to be polite. They might say:
Yo! Couldya get me a damn soda from the fuckin' frig already?
(Notice how they deliberately avoid using the term "soft drink"-- trying to impress you with how cool they are)
No, a Canadian would say "Please get me a pop from the frig."
Years ago you could accuse them of thinking that they "were the cat's pajamas"-- but that's really quite archaic.
Me, too. I'd say the quiz needs some work, lol.
Well at least mine didn't say Kazakhstan!
(When people start getting answers like that its may be time to worry!))
I'm not sure how accurate those quizzes are anymore. TV and the internet have homogenized language, and removed some of those quirks.
I was listening to a segment on NPR a few days ago about New Orleans. A New Orleans native was being interviewed. I couldn't pick out a hint of an accent.
We're all starting to sound alike.
I wouldn't worry unless we all started to LOOK alike.
Most people think of "tea" as only that drink made from the leaves of the actual Green Tea Plant (AKA Camellia sinensis).
For me, the word "tea" only means a drink made from leaves of certain bushes.
Actually what we think of as "teas" botanists call an "infusion":
. . . infusion: a drink, remedy, or extract prepared by soaking the leaves of a plant or herb in liquid.
Actually what we think of as "teas" botanists call an "infusion":
.(I'm not an actual Botanist, nor do I play one on TV).
I've heard its a little...unusual. I think that may be that people there may mostly be "living in another era"---i.e. mostly living the same way they did long ago.
A while back I saw a TV program that discussed that.
They attributed it partially to the fact that people are moving to different places more than they used to in the past.
Another factor contributing to this: the media. Over the last few decades people have been watching TV-- and constantly being exposed to accents that are different than the ones they grew up hearing.in their hometown.
I've often heard of the Brits having "Tea and Crumpets".
(I don't think I've ever has a Crumpet...???
I was curious so I just googled it: (Its more complicated than I had realized!)
Sneakers have gone by a variety of names, depending on geography and changing over the decades. The broader category inclusive of sneakers is athletic shoes . The term 'athletic shoes' is typically used for shoes utilized for jogging or road running and indoor sports such as basketball, but tends to exclude shoes for sports played on grass such as association football and rugby football, which are generally known in North America as "cleats" and in British English as "boots" or "studs".
The word "sneaker" is often attributed to American Henry Nelson McKinney, who was an advertising agent for N. W. Ayer & Son . In 1917, he used the term because the rubber sole made the shoe's wearer stealthy. The word was already in use at least as early as 1887, when the Boston Journal made reference to "sneakers" as "the name boys give to tennis shoes."
The name "sneakers" originally referred to how quiet the rubber soles were on the ground, in contrast to noisy standard hard leather sole dress shoes. Someone wearing sneakers could "sneak up", while someone wearing standards could not. [2] Earlier, the name "sneaks" had been used by prison inmates to refer to warders (guards) because of the rubber-soled shoes they wore. [3]
The term "sneakers" is most commonly used in Northeastern United States, Central and South Florida, [4] [5] Australia, [6] New Zealand, and parts of Canada.
However, in Australian, Canadian, and Scottish English, running shoes and runners are synonymous terms used to refer to sneakers, with the latter term also used in Hiberno-English.
Tennis shoes and kicks are other terms used in Australian and North American English.
I think the closest we have is an English muffin, but they're not quite the same.
If I wanted to pretend I was Canadian and wanted to fool people I would:
1. Be overly courteous and polite.
2. Occasionally apologize for not being polite even though I was. Throw in an occasional "please" and "thank you" even when not required.
3. Never disagree with anything they say or discuss any controversial topics.
4. And throw in an occasional "Eh?" every few sentences!
No doubt, but also incredibly f'd up by 70 uears pf unending war either with themselves or others and suffering incredible poverty. Hard to believe that in the 50's they were the most westernized, advanced and biggest exporting nation of the middle east. Times have changed
For several items we've begun calling them by the name of a particular brand rather than the "correct" name of the item. Examples;
1. "Scotch Tape' is a brand name. Other companies make the same product. Its "real" name is "Adhesive tape" or "clear tape"-- I've also heard called "cellophane tape". (Actually "adhesive tape" can be confusing as there's also "masking tape". and of course "Duck tape" (real name of item is "Duct Tape")
2. "Kleenex" is a brand name. Other companies make the same product. (technically it should be called "facial tissue").
3, Nike basketball shoes were once so popular that I've often heard basketball shoes referred to as "Nikes".
You might be right. (I would've thought the the largest exporter in those days would've been Saudi Arabia-- or one of the other oil rich countries. The vast oil exports of several of those countries has been huge (although things have changed back and for over the years).
For some weird reason when I click on your linked words all it does is reopen this article again.
Is this the one? I copied the beginning for you:
There are more than 20 towns in America called Moscow. Why is that?
When Jack Spaulding was growing up in Moscow, Tennessee, he always wondered how the town, a small, rural community of about 80 residents, got its name. It didn’t seem to have any obvious connection with Russia, but could any of the local tales he’d heard actually be true?
“I would ask all the old folks here in town if anybody knew how the town got its name. Well, I got all these hokey answers like, ‘Well, it’s because of the moss and… they used to send the cows down there to graze on the moss. Moss cow. And then after that Ma’s cow — like, belonging to your mother’s. … Nobody really had any idea where the name came about,” Spaulding says.
Spaulding eventually dug deeper, and his research turned up an unexpected finding: The area had been known as something like “Moscow” since before the town was founded in the early 1800s. That clue led him in a new direction.
“I went through the dictionary looking for any type of word that would sound similar to Moscow or would be spoken by Europeans like ‘Moscow’ and I believe as I recall, the word closest to that was Mashetow,” he says.
According to Spaulding, Mashetow was a Native American word meaning “to go” or “the place to where we’re going.”
“I think Moscow was the place to where the Native Americans would go for the watering ground. … What is this place? Mashetow! This is the place we’re going.”
I guess then that there aren't different names for the high sided and low sided running shoes.
More:
Spaulding’s conclusion wasn’t definitive, but it was a worthy effort. He isn’t the only person to set out trying to figure out why a small town in the middle of America acquired the same name as the capital of Russia. There are more than 20 identically named cities scattered across the country. There’s a Moscow in Idaho near the border with Washington, another up north in Maine and one down south in Texas.
When Ren Vasilyev, now a professor of geography at the State University of New York Geneseo, was a graduate student, she decided to tackle the riddle of America’s many Moscows. It was 1986, the height of the Cold War battle with the Moscow-capitaled Soviet Union, and in those misty pre-Internet days, a project like this required a lot of analog legwork.
She poured through old county history books, and found that just as with Spaulding’s hometown, most of the Moscows in America didn’t have anything to do with Russia or its capital.
One was the result of a misunderstanding: Moscow, Kansas. Town officials had tried to name their city after Luis de Moscoso, a Spanish conquistador, but they decided to shorten the name to M-O-S-C-O. When they submitted an application to create a post office, it came back with the extra letter.
[...]
“I was actually pleased that the Americans who were settling here from other places, from other European places, were taking Moscow as a name thinking of it as a prestigious name. People don’t want to live in a place that isn’t prestigious. … People want it to be something other than, you know, Hog’s Hollow,” she says. That’s what Moscow, Idaho, the biggest Moscow in the US, was originally named.
Theer's a lot more-- but that's just some of it.
There is an upper class boys' private school in Toronto called Upper Canada College. Upper Canada was the original name for Ontario, and Lower Canada was the original name for Quebec and maybe parts east to the coast. Private boys schools where I come from, and I attended one for my last couple years of high school, are very much modeled on British boys schools in England, as in the movie Goodbye Mr. Chips. The cheer that the Upper Canada College boys would chant was this:
"Crumpets and tea, crumpets and tea, We're the boys from UCC. Oxford, Pip."
You would make a fool of yourself. Do you see me doing all of those things?
Yep. I've always used the words "Scotch tape" and "Kleenex", but not Nikes. I guess I always said "running shoes".
Arvo..never heard of kicks..
We also call them sand shoes and just plain runners..
The Brits call them trainers..
Your linked comment mentions "Hog's Hollow" in a disparaging way. In Toronto, a neighbourhood called Hogg's Hollow is an exceptionally prestigious location. It is a valley, sometimes called York Mills Valley, with winding roads, all detached big homes and as in the movie, A River Runs Through It. My first wfe and I lived there for more than 20 years, raised our children there. Here is some history about the area. LINK -> Hoggs Hollow Neighbourhood Guide | Toronto | Elli Davis
The author of that article mentions colonial homes with shutters and white picket fences. We had those, and a swimming pool as well.
Holy Moley. it;s taken me almost 2 hours to work through and reply to the comments that built up on this article while I was sleeping. Now it's at 91 comments. It's a good thing I rarely delete a comment for being off topic - I believe that any civil discussion should be encouraged rather than discouraged.
Work faster Buzz..
LOL
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
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Well, perhaps you should try working through the comments while you're awake-- it would probably go faster!
Do you really think I'm still asleep? It's 10 a.m. and now I'm going to watch the biased news on TV.
I was just kidding.
I'm going to watch the biased news on TV.
Well, you have a choice. You can either watch the biased news on TV, or read the biased political articles online.!
I do both.
Me too.
Bad habit.
I gotta stop!
????
Who do you think you are:
Captain Marbles?
Batman?
Christopher Robin?
Christopher Columbus, perhaps?
Colombo?
Zorro?
The three Mousekateers?
The Incredible Adventures of Hillary Clington and Her Mysterious Disappearing Notebook?
One or more of the Avengers?
Annette Funicello?
One of those infernal Baskerville Hounds?
(And yet another dog that didn't bark in the night, perhaps?)
The Orient Express and a double cheesburger to go-- and make it quick!
Buffalo Bill and the Melodiacs?
Andrew Carnegys and his Carneg-aires?
Davey Croquette
Mel Brooks?
Harpo, Zeppo, Karl?
And their Polka Band!
If I had to choose one of those, it would be Zorro. Step aside, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas.
Well you had seemed to be unhappy that for the most part the only seeds that get a lot of attention are those stupid political arguments. So several of us were only too happy to remedy that situation.
And so far out efforts seem to be working....
Well, you're sure as hell keeping me busy. But in a little while I'll be watching my daily movie or two.
Of course that should read " our efforts".
(I've been excessively multi-tasking . . .
)
Indeed.
I occasionally "wear too many hats at the same time"-- but soon I may took off the one labeled "TSA".
("The Sorcerers Apprentice")
I've known about The Sorcerer's Apprentice ever since I was a kid watching the movie Fantasia.
I agree.
I've always thought of it as there being two types of "off topic" comments. One is where people in an argument are clearly "losing"-- so they try to throw the discussion off track , derailing it by posting things that are irrelevant to the topic of the discussion-- attempting to get it away from what's actually being discussed. (On most sites that's a violation of the rules)
The other type occurs when someone posts a comment that is not closely related to the topic, but not with the attention of interfering with the discussion. I have often seen instances where these "off topic" comments actually lead the discussion into a more interesting/useful discussion.
Okay, then in a full swing away from the topic, didn't you want to know what movie I watched yesterday afternoon? It was Matchstick Men, in which Nicolas Cage was a 'con artist', but he got conned by a young girl he thought was his daugher - a pretty good movie.
I'm not familiar with that one.
After hearing about all the movies you watch I'm beginning to think perhaps I'd really enjoy watching movies more often-- and perhaps cutting down the amount of time I spend on social media....
Since I'm fully retired and mostly stay home I have tme for both.
My apologies for posting something "On topic"-- but I've been curious: does anyone know why the RV in photo #8 has those rocks around it?
Eh?
So you can score points when you hit them reversing in..
Just a barrier to designate that is your particular parking bay in the camping ground...
And maybe to stop people driving on to the grass...
See it all the time here..
I've never seen it before.
(Although its been many years since I've passed by close to a RV campground.)
I had one experience in my life of sleeping in a big fully equipped trailer in a trailer park that was in Arlington, Texas. I was accompaning a Toronto client of mine to oversee his purchase of the trailer park. We dealt with a really nice woman lawyer in Dallas.
I think shona has the answer. I'd venture my opinion that the owner of that trailer has it parked beside a laneway and has had the experience of someone hitting and damaging his trailer.