Pluggers by Rick McKee for January 16, 2011

Pre Baby Boomers, the Greatest Generation.

That doesn’t make you a plugger, it makes you dead.

Yes, it was a “davenport in the living room.”

Back seat of a ‘51 Studebaker…………..

There are still some from the greatest generation that are still around, and if we take the time to listen, may come to know there were more honorable courtships than any of the following generations.

You’re a plugger if your courted your wife. Period.

The only person I ever heard call it a “davenport” was my dad, who enlisted for WW2 as soon as he was out of high school.

I have never found any explanation for where that name came from, until just now on Wikipedia. Come to think of it, the “davenport” we had when I was a kid was a futon.

How about in the rumbleseat of a roadster?

Re “chesterfield”: The Amer. Herit. Dict. of the Eng. Lang. 4th Ed. says this definition is a regional term common in Canada and N. Calif. around San Francisco which probably adopted it from trade with Canada.

“Davenport” is a more general term, but I’ve not heard it in decades. But maybe it’s one of those words that most women know but most men don’t.

Or if you were in the South, in the wooden swing on the front porch. Those were the days!

The reason the Greatest Generation was so honorable was because girls used to say “Not until we’re married!” So everybody got married real quick and got acquainted later. And you know what, most of ‘em stayed married, too. I haven’t seen a better system since.

Never ever heard the term Chesterfield to describe a davenport/sofa. Only Chesterfields I remember were the cigarette commercials on TV when I was a kid! Is that brand even still around anymore?

Ah the good old days :)