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.

Comments

[deor.livejournal.com]

A couple I was going to mention - knife/scissors grinder, cobbler, typewriter repair - have been brought up by others. But here's one you don't see much of anymore, at least in most retail clothing stores: in-store seamstress/tailor. My great-aunt did that for fifty years, and back in the day it was fairly common to get clothing in a store and then have it altered to fit. A few stores still offer this service, but it's not nearly as common as it used to be.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I know several in the UK, including the Levis discount store (my legs are too short, I have a 26 inch inside leg measurement so they typically have to take off aroun7 inches). It isn't as common as it was 40+ years ago, but it doesn't look as though it's decreasing any more now.