Former names you use without meaning to

[tchafe1978]

In Southwest Wisconsin, there was a local grocery store chain called Dick's Supermarkets. They had 9 stores I believe, in towns throughout the region. In the early 2000's, they sold out to the owners of Piggly Wiggly. All the former Dick's stores are now called Piggly Wiggly, but everyone still called them Dick's. The best part about it all, is that Dick's savings club card used to be called the Dick's Insider Savings Club. Amazingly, at least at the Platteville store, they still accept these cards, even though mine is about 20 years old and the barcode barely scans anymore! My Dick's Insider was a long-running joke, especially among the UW-Platteville students.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Peking, Canton, Byelorussia. Only in Spanish, and with Spanish spelling (Pekín, Cantón, Bielorrusia). In English they are Beijing, Guangzhou, Belarus.

Kiev, always.

[Rothman]

Yeah, I don't get the "Kyiv" switch.

[tckma]

Bombay, rather than Mumbai.  I don't know when that switch was made.

[davewiecking]

BWI used to be Friendship Airport. Don't know of anyone who still calls it that.

Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport just rolls right off the tongue.

[noelbotevera]

BWI used to be Friendship Airport. Don't know of anyone who still calls it that.

Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport just rolls right off the tongue.

Baltimore Washington International Airport rolls off even better.

[jp the roadgeek]

I still call Myanmar Burma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAlinvw2Rb0

[tckma]

BWI used to be Friendship Airport. Don't know of anyone who still calls it that.

Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport just rolls right off the tongue.

Baltimore Washington International Airport rolls off even better.

:shrug: I just call it BWI, that is "Bee Double-U Eye," and never anything else.

[noelbotevera]

BWI used to be Friendship Airport. Don't know of anyone who still calls it that.

Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport just rolls right off the tongue.

Baltimore Washington International Airport rolls off even better.

:shrug: I just call it BWI, that is "Bee Double-U Eye," and never anything else.

Same, I just say BWI, but if I'm talking to someone who's a real nerd, I might use the full name or the name I mentioned.

[J N Winkler]

Bombay, rather than Mumbai.  I don't know when that switch was made.

1995, per Wikipedia.  The nativization of names for other Indian cities has been ongoing since 1947, although most of the really big ones seem to have flipped in the nineties and noughties, e.g. Calcutta/Kolkata (2001), Madras/Chennai (1996), Trivandrum/Thiruvananthapuram (1991).  More information here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaming_of_cities_in_India



I just don't think people's names bed in well with airport names unless it somehow sounds euphonic to use the city name followed by the last name of only one person as shorthand for the full airport name.  For example, "Washington Dulles" works, but "Wichita Eisenhower" has perhaps too many syllables.  "Atlanta Hartsfield" is still much more sensible than "Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson."  BWI has a variant of this problem:  marketing considerations do not allow it to be labelled exclusively as a Baltimore airport, so "Baltimore Marshall" (dropping Washington) doesn't work as a less cryptic alternative to the IATA code.

[mariethefoxy]

Interboro Parkway, Shea Stadium, Triboro Bridge, Queensboro Bridge

[Bruce]

I will stubbornly refer to the large department store in Downtown Seattle between Pine and Stewart (and 4th and 3rd) as The Bon Marche, instead of Macy's.

How do you feel about Frederick and Nelson's?

A bit before my time. At least the flagship was replaced with another local company instead of a nationwide chain.

[mrsman]

Interboro Parkway, Shea Stadium, Triboro Bridge, Queensboro Bridge

What about the Brookly-Battery Tunnel?  I doubt you use the new name Hugh Carey Tunnel.

[1995hoo]

Marshall Field's.

[Max Rockatansky]

I'm sitting here watching the Bristol Race....Winston Cup and Busch Series are still part of my active dialog as opposed to whoever is sponsoring the series nowadays.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Much like I do with sponsored things, I never mention the sponsor since I don't get payed. Like 'That arena in Los Angeles' as AFAIK it doesn't have a sponsorless name.

[Max Rockatansky]

Much like I do with sponsored things, I never mention the sponsor since I don't get payed. Like 'That arena in Los Angeles' as AFAIK it doesn't have a sponsorless name.

Yeah but that kind of thing gets ingrained when you have sponsorships that lasted from 1971 to 2003.  Does Winston Cigarettes even exist anymore?  Hell they even had a movie with Days of Thunder where the name of sponsor name of the series was even mentioned.  Used to be a hell of a lot of fun to line up bottles of Tide, Busch Beer cans and empty packs of smokes around my childhood slot car tracks.  They amazingly resemble the race track billboards of yore.   

[kkt]

Yeah but that kind of thing gets ingrained when you have sponsorships that lasted from 1971 to 2003.  Does Winston Cigarettes even exist anymore?

The Winston brand still exists and the cigarettes are sold, though ownership has changed several times and it kind of a tangled web.

[slorydn1]

I'm sitting here watching the Bristol Race....Winston Cup and Busch Series are still part of my active dialog as opposed to whoever is sponsoring the series nowadays.

I'm with you there-though recently my brother and I have started to refer to the lower series as the Buschwideity Series and the top series as the Winnextsprint Cup Series. Just wait, the top series will be getting a new name next year as Sprint is going away as the title sponsor.

[The Nature Boy]

Interboro Parkway, Shea Stadium, Triboro Bridge, Queensboro Bridge

Technically Shea Stadium isn't a former name of the current field. CitiField is an entirely new structure.

[thenetwork]

There are a lot of people (including me) who refer to the ballpark that the Cleveland Indians currently reside in as Jacobs Field, or "The Jake" and always will -- Not Progressive Field.

Most people will still refer to the stadium where the Denver Broncos play as "Mile High Stadium".  For the moment, the official name is Sports Authority Field @ Mile High and before that it was Invesco Field.  Depending on Sports Authority's current financial problem, Mile High could be known as something else come September...again.

Previous posts were mentioning older ATM names.  My favorite branded ATMs were seen in Ontario of all places in the late 80s.  Canada Trust Bank called their ATM's "JohnnyCash" machines.   And yes, they had the official endorsement of the Man in Black, who appeared in commercials for the bank's ATMs!  http://www.openculture.com/2015/04/johnny-cash-machines.html

[Max Rockatansky]

I'm sitting here watching the Bristol Race....Winston Cup and Busch Series are still part of my active dialog as opposed to whoever is sponsoring the series nowadays.

I'm with you there-though recently my brother and I have started to refer to the lower series as the Buschwideity Series and the top series as the Winnextsprint Cup Series. Just wait, the top series will be getting a new name next year as Sprint is going away as the title sponsor.

I still like to refer to the team names by what they used to be.  I always manage to stick to Roush and forget about the Fenway part of the equation.  BTW, I haven't seen a crowd that small at Bristol in about 25 years....that doesn't bode well.

[jp the roadgeek]

Not many sponsorless major league sports venues left.

MLB: Fenway, Yankee, Camden Yards, Kauffman, Angel Stadium, Marlins Park, Nationals Park, Turner Field, Wrigley, Dodger (Turner will be gone after this year to be replaced by SunTrust)

NFL: Ralph Wilson, Dolphins, Paul Brown, Arrowhead, Soldier Field, Lambeau Field, Georgia Dome, LA Coliseum, (Dolphins lost Sun Life, but will have a new name come the NFL season.  Georgia Dome will be gone after this season to be replaced by Mercedes Benz Stadium.)

NBA: MSG, Palace at Auburn Hills

NHL: MSG, Joe Louis  (The Joe will be replaced by a soon to be corporately named arena for the 2017-18 Red Wings season.)

[vdeane]

There are a lot of people (including me) who refer to the ballpark that the Cleveland Indians currently reside in as Jacobs Field, or "The Jake" and always will -- Not Progressive Field.

Do they let people use the Name Your Price tool to buy tickets?

[hbelkins]

BTW, I haven't seen a crowd that small at Bristol in about 25 years....that doesn't bode well.

Lots of my friends noticed that too, and I have two theories.

One is all the tinkering NASCAR has done with the racing.

The other is Obama's economy. Bristol is very close to the heart of coal country. It's less than four hours from me and much closer to the coal-producing counties of SE Kentucky, SW Virginia and southern West Virginia. The coal mining economy has been wrecked and many locals can no longer afford to go. At one time, lodging from Bristol spilled over to Wise/Norton, Pikeville and even Prestonsburg and Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg/Sevierville. I bet that's not the case now.