That it should happen in our lifetimes

[rolanni]

Steve and I were talking last evening about the jobs that had existed during our lifetimes which exist no more. Here's a partial list, in no particular order:

1. Lamplighter
2. Ice man
3. Pin boy
4. Ayrab
5. Tinker
6. Insurance man*
7. Milk man
8. Secretary**
9. Street sweeper
10. Beat cop

What occupations and jobs have vanished from the world around you?

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* Back in the Day, the insurance man would come to the house weekly, and collect his quarter or half-dollar. Yes, was the legitimate insurance man.

**Actually, secretary seemed to almost die out as a job,the reasoning being that the boss could type his own dern letters if only he was given a computer. Then corporate thinking came back around to the realization that the status of having a live person to do all that silly paperwork for you was priceless, so the occupation has enjoyed a minor renaissance.

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[windrose.livejournal.com]

At Christmas dinner this year, I wound up talking with some cousins about our grandmother, and all the changes to the world she had seen in her lifetime. She was born in 1904, and died in 1998. That's damn near 100 years.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

She was born in 1904, and died in 1998. That's damn near 100 years.

Talk about having been born in whole 'nother world...