As we're really rolling now- I thought I'd make this installment of Victorian Vernacular about... transportation!
Jalopy: a dilapidated old vehicle (as an automobile)
Joe drives an old Jalopy, while the Gilbreths drive a Pierce Arrow...
Above are magazine ads for the Pierce Arrow
(Be sure to take a look at the price!)
And here's a bit more of info I pilfered from the web about the Gilbreth family car of choice:
"In 1909, U.S. President William Howard Taft ordered two Pierce-Arrows
to be used for state occasions, the first official automobiles of the White House. An open-bodied Pierce-Arrow carriedWoodrow Wilson and Warren G. Harding to Harding’s 1921 inauguration. The Pierce-Arrow was a status symbol, owned by many Hollywood stars, corporate tycoons; royalty of many foreign nations had at least one Pierce-Arrow in their collections. In American luxury cars it was rivaled only by Peerless and Packard, which collectively received the accolade Three P's of Motordom. Industrial efficiency expert Frank Gilbreth extolled the virtues of Pierce-Arrow, in both quality and in its ability to safely transport his large family. "
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