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Ted in NE-OH

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During my life time 72 years some jobs have gone away such as:

Milk man
Telephone operator
TV repairman

Can you add to this list?
 
In the town west of us there is a station that has both self and we serve pumps. Same price. It seems that its split 50/50 as to what customers choose.
 
residential coal delivery driver
elevator operator
railroad caboose crews and block operators
 
Pretty much right on that except in New Jersey. State law doesn't allow self serve. Really weird thing is gas is cheaper there than surrounding states.

jt
 
There's a little gas station/general market on a corner about 4 miles from us. 1 diesel pump and one gas. Drive up and the guy runs out and pumps it for you. He's been going it for 26 years I think it was.
 
Blacksmith/Farm welding shop that does that only. Not gone but Have to drive a few miles to get to one.

TV repair

Private small engine/lawnmower shop, also not gone but many fewer than there used to be.

Private hog or poultry producer.
 
livestock yardman - about every small town used to have a drop station for selling livestock (all gone now)

small town doctor with his own office/practice - mostly all in big clinics now

egg man - now mostly produced at huge facilities
 
HERE IN RURAL NE OHIO SINCE MY 84 YEARS:
Butcher truck
Iceman
Fuller Brush sales man
Watkins Vanilla and spices sales( horeound cough drops, salves for aches and pains and several tonics that contained 20% alcohol)
Insurance man on weekly collection routes
coal delivery man
bakery truck
real service stations except for two in Suiffeild and Hartville that are still full service
true hardware stores except for Gamauf's in Copley Ohio that still has everything and I mean everything
 
Some of the jobs I had as a kid involved:
Crosscut saw and axe
Manure fork
Scoop shovel
Hoe
Bale hook
Pitchfork
Push mower
Paint brush
I don't miss a one of 'em
 
TV antennae installer, shoe repair man,mobile feed grinder truck,many kinds of door to door salesperson. .. Ben
 
Baling hay (old way). Only actual "income" for many teen farm kids. Hard work but a chance to learn how to interact with others and even meet other farm girls that didn't go to your school. Learned how to correctly stack bales for larger load along with tractor driving skills and how hard farmers wives worked to make sure all were fed and watered. We all learned a ton and didn't even know it at the time but are better people for it. Laws first and then technology pretty much ended it all. Us 4 boys were "rented out" to various farmers all summer and when Dad needed hay baled he needed no baler or wagons or elevator. That's how things were done then. Usually when all done with a certain farm, we all got taken to some local lake for swimming and fun. Specially if they had good lookin' daughters! We also found out that girls loved tans and muscles and there's nothing more attractive than a farm girl on the wagon with you in ragged jeans and ponytail/ball cap and no makeup laughing ,joking and having good ole time. Bennefits far outweighed the hard work/sweat. So yew my addition is "baling hay" !
 
Used to be a guy not to far from us that made round wood stock tanks. Don't have any idea if anybody still does that.
 
Assembly line worker.

65,000 factories (big and small) have closed in America in the last 25 years.
Jobs are gone, people are still here. Old factory buildings are falling down all over America.
Textiles, clothing, shoes, furniture, electronics, tools, the list goes on and on.
What departed your town????
 
(quoted from post at 08:39:44 04/09/16) Blacksmith/Farm welding shop that does that only. Not gone but Have to drive a few miles to get to one.

TV repair

Private small engine/lawnmower shop, also not gone but many fewer than there used to be.

Private hog or poultry producer.

John I can add local livestock buyer/stockyards. Every town had one or two.
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I wouldn't have to go far to get pictures of dilapidated empty factory buildings. When I graduated high school there was a electronics factory that hired LOTS of young people, especially girls. During the summer college girls got jobs there doing sub assembly work in a clean environment. It was a great way for them to constructively use spare time and get extra $$. All that's long gone. Now college kids have a tough time in summer months finding jobs, at least around here. I don't see how any politician is going to turn the tide.
 
I retired from a commercial freight line just about 6 years ago. My daughter lives in center Indiana and every time we go visit her I go a different way and through towns I delivered in and its hard to believe how much industry and business that are totally gone.
 
(quoted from post at 11:01:52 04/09/16) I wouldn't have to go far to get pictures of dilapidated empty factory buildings. When I graduated high school there was a electronics factory that hired LOTS of young people, especially girls. During the summer college girls got jobs there doing sub assembly work in a clean environment. It was a great way for them to constructively use spare time and get extra $$. All that's long gone. Now college kids have a tough time in summer months finding jobs, at least around here. I don't see how any politician is going to turn the tide.
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My mother worked in a factory that made car interiors, and a cash register factory. My dad in several different auto factories, I worked in 9 different plants. Every single one is gone. Mostly to Mexico or China. Most of my relatives and neighbors could tell you the same thing. Btw - I really doubt that any of this is coming back. It's too late to turn back the clock.
 
Now when you say full service do they wash your windshield, rear window, wipe off headlights and check your oil and bring the dip stick to the window for you to see. That's the way I remember it and all for 23 cents a gallon.
 
My grandfather worked as a fireman in a steam powered mill paper mill. Shoveled coal eight hours a day 6 days a week.
 
Airplane navigator and radio operator. And on most airplanes, there's no more flight engineer. Nobody on the flight deck except the pilot and copilot.
 
Insurance agents that collected monthly premiums at your home. Seamstress for alterations. Peddler's driving down street selling produce.
 
Bruce. One of the very first jobs I had was running a mobile feed truck. Worked 6 days a week,started at 7am, if you were lucky,done by 7pm, if not, ground alfalfa hay for concentrate till midnight! Did get $10/day,$10 income tax, $50/week clear and thought I was in "tall cotton"
 
I have an 80" rear projection TV. I still have a TV repair guy that comes to the house and works on it. It was a high end TV in it's day and definitely worth repairing, but running out of time now. May not get repaired the next time it goes on the fritz.
 
I live 10 miles from nearest town of 500 population on a seldom travelled back road. I still have Richmond Time Dispatch delivered 7am every day. I hope it always is.
 
There's still a coal truck in my area. I guess enough people still burn anthracite. Used have the Surge milker service truck run a route through the area. No more.
 
I can remember all three. Kinda rare these days.There was a man that came around town in a wagon. Selling produce,eggs and milk,butter from his farm. Wagon was pulled by two of the biggest horses. A ten year old skinny kid had ever seen.
 
RandyB, Your experiences mirror mine growing up in the "thumb". I baled a lot of hay, spent a lot of time loading wagons behind JD 24T bales. Good memories. The Polish farmers wives knew how to cook. Supper time was the best.
Ted
 
The old country Doctor that came out to the farm. I was sick as a child and the old man called Doc. Kestin to come and as I laid in the front room on the day bed I seen him coming in that old 35 Dodge coupe with chains on, the roads weren't plowed yet. He gave me a shot with a needle as he always did no matter what was wrong with you. The old man said ,How much do I owe you. Doc said that will be 3 dollars. Can you imagine that today ? That was 70 years ago in the winter and dark of night for 3 dollars and I remember it well. ...Jack
 
Interesting how some of the responses below are regionally dependent. On our semi-rural road in New England, there are at least three different milk delivery trucks going by, so apparently there is still a lot of business for milkmen here. And we have a farrier/blacksmith down the road.
 
Yep, remember that one. My grandmother used to send my cousin and me out with a shopping list when the van came by, and made sure to give us just enough extra money that we could each get a pack of baseball cards with the change.
 
Railroad Fireman
Railroad lamp lighter
Railroad clerk
Railroad Brakeman
Railroad Tower Operator
Railroad Ice house workers
Railroad crossing guard
Railroad Telegrapher
Railroad weigh master
Railroad wreck big hook operator
 
Harness Makers.
Blacksmith shops.
Feed mills.
Steam Locomotives.
Lake ice cutters.
Seamstress shops.
Tailor shops.
Creameries.
Stables. Near the RR station. Horses and buggies for rent.
Beer Bars.
Pin setters. (Human)
Railway Express Stations.
Pool Halls.
Black & White television.
Phonographs.
Dial telephones.
Crank telephones.
Lye soap.
Bloomers. (;>))
High button shoes.
Men's hats.
Ladies girdles.
Garters.
Spats.
Spitoons.
Regulator clocks.
Pocket watches.
Celluloid collars.
Gas Lights.
National cash registers.
Penny post cards.
 
How about your dependable John Deere parts man and your dependable John Deere service man using a fuel injection pump test stand
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railroad depot operator but then so have lots of trains. i think almost ever town had a train going thru it.
 
The only daily in our area comes from 30 miles away, we took that paper for over 35 years but about 5 years ago they refused to deliver anymore, first they said there was a ''safety'' concern with the lady delivering on a gravel road???? The truth is we were the only people still taking the paper in a rural area and it was uneconomical to deliver to us, I wish they had of just said that to start with instead of the bogus excuse.
 
There are still tv repairmen. We bought a flat screen tv from Best Buy a few years ago. It was their store brand and came with a three year warranty. About two years in it quit working. Called them up and they verified the serial number and they said one of their geek squad repairmen would be out the next day. He showed up as promised, replaced two circuit boards and the tv is still working fine today. All with no charge to us and we had not purchased an extended warranty.
 
(quoted from post at 18:11:27 04/09/16) Honest trustworthy politician who wants to do something to help people. That one taint happening no mo
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If you go back and read history that has never happened, ever!

And they ain't there to "help" people and are not supposed to. They are there to REPRESENT people, not to lead or help.

But not to highjack this:

Lots of jobs have gone the way of the dodo bird for good reason. Labor cost and productivity.


Rick
 
House about 5 mile from me has sign in yard alterations. Might need to check on repairs as well like buttons comming off. Hate to throw away something good just for a missing button.
 
Lots of paper boys and girls here in town yet. Also lots of rual newspaper delievery drivers around as well. I did that for 15 years till health 6 years ago stopped it.
 
I personally know several harnes makers and some blacksmith shops. Actually need to stop in to see one of both.
 
Here if you are still 15 mile away from next closest customer they still want you to drive the 15 mile for 16 1/2 cents per paper and you furnish your own car. Paid same when I first started about 20 years ago and gas was 70 cents per gallon and when gas went up to 4.25 a gallon. Was that 16.5 cents per paper when I quite 6 years ago.
 
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