Service station attendants to fill up your vehicle, check the oil and water. When I was in Spain a few years ago they still had them. Creates jobs also
@@andreilacerda5634 I got paid full salary to play games and watch movies for years, but it got tedious and boring over time. It also made me lazy, so i had to find a proper job.
My dad did that. Two projectors, changing and rewinding reels, splicing and getting them back in the projector if the film split. I also remember the 8 second dot on the upper right side of the picture. You see the first dot, start counting to eight, at 8 you shut off one projector and turn on the other and the movie would continue without a pause.
My family had milk delivered to our house until I was in the 2nd grade.The milkman was named Mr.Marcos.I liked him,he often left me a carton of chocolate milk.
@@jenniferhansen3622 He was a real nice guy.I missed his visits,but by then my mother bought milk at the grocery store.I did some telemarketing in the '80's,once I called a woman named Marcus who turned out to be his daughter in law.She told me many of his former customers had fond memories of him.What little home delivery there is now is to older people who are unable to get out & shop for themselves.
We got milk when I was a kid. Not everyday, but a few times a week. We were so excited when we occasionally got chocolate milk. We also got potato chips delivered in big metal cans. They were good.
I remember the ice man, the milk man, and the bread man. I also remember when you actually got service at a gas station that included a washed windshield, oil level checked, and tire air pressure checked. All with a smile and an attendant wearing a uniform and a tie. That’s back when the customer actually mattered.
Wrong! There is a big pushback at many stores who don't want to pack their own bags, and theft from the sef-serve is so bad that a Iot of stores are putting cash registers back in service !
It’s sad Now people get paid to watch you cash yourself out When I was a cashier I had to type in the prices and manually input coupons and such and didn’t have a bagger most of the time so had to bag the groceries too
My father ran a home delivery route for Dixie Belle Dairy, that closed in 1971. I ran a milk/ice cream wholesale route for Pet dairy, that got bought out by Land-o-Lakes in the mid 80s. I bought the truck I drove in 1987 for $100, putting in an engine and driving it home. Taking the bed off,(Which I still have and still keeps everything frozen) I turned it into a 1975 GMC C6500 Cab over 26 foot pickup. I later sold old Truck #217 as a show truck for $30,000.
@@James-kv6kb Sometimes new ideas turn out to be bad ones. Like streets being closed off so pedestrians could use them, and all it caused were traffic problems so they had to reopen them and allow vehicular traffic again.
Worked in a service station as a teenager back in the late 60's for a buck an hour. Take home pay for the week was $32 . Regular gasoline would set you back a whopping 34 cents a gallon.
I worked at a full service gasoline station and gas was 48 cents. I was earning 68 dollars every two weeks. Back then we were opened 6:00 am to 11:00 pm, seven days a week.
I remember when the gasoline in Canada went over a dollar a gallon. None of the pumps had the extra numeral because no one ever thought the price would go that high.
I remember the Borden's delivery man bringing the milk in and putting it in the refrigerator. He also brought chocolate milk and other dairy products. I always thought that it was a luxury, having the delivery that way. Now I order fresh groceries online and they are delivered to my porch within hours. I'm 70 years old now and I STILL think it's an absolute luxury to have grocery delivery. I love it and plan to continue it. I tip very well and as I can't get around very well the service is a blessing.
I remember getting a flat tire in the sixties. The gas station attendant took the tire off, patched it and put it back on - no charge. Also, if you were having a mechanical issue, attendants would easily spend an hour trying to nail down the issue for you - no charge. It was a mystery to be solved - not a chance to make money.
In addition to the milkman, we had the egg man, who also took orders for beef raised locally by his sons. It would be cut to order, wrapped, and delivered to the local frozen meat locker. (It was a rented public storage unit for frozen food, back in the days of tiny home freezers.)
My dad became friends with former milkman and newspaper man until today they are already 80+ years old. I remember back in 90s then every morning the newspaperman and milkman will deliver their goods to our house everyday 7 times a week. Until my dad invited them to come over on my birthday at the afternoon and they really came and gave me present too! What a nice memory for those two guys that made my childhood.
This nearly made me cry. My late father worked for a Remington-Rand dealer, and by the time he was 25, he could probably fix an IBM Selectric in the DARK.
Being a kid in the 1960s I can remember the Milkman the breadman and movie theaters showing a cartoon before the main feature usually a risque Pink Panther
@@lynnelhampton-bott6917 he delivered fresh baked bread, donuts, rolls, pies, cakes and cookies. I remember him bringing them in on a tray and we have the option to pick what we wanted
In the 1940's and 1950's before the proliferation of television,in addition to movies and movie previews , movie theatres showed newsreels of current news stories .
I remember as recently as the 1980s, you could take your Norelco electric razor to Ace Hardware to have to have it serviced. For $5 they would take it apart, clean it, and lubricate all moving parts. You did that maybe once every year or 2. When you bought a Norelco, it was with the intention of having it for life. Not anymore. Now you buy one, it lasts maybe 2 or 3 years, you toss it, and you just buy a new one.
I'm 74 from New Jersey and I remember the coal delivery guy humping coal in a large canvas bag 50 feet to the coal chute in the cellar! A very tough job !😂😮
Remember the milky here in Australia they used horse and cart.The milky would jump off and deliver to 3 houses as the horse moved to the 4th house and waited for him.A truck can’t do that.
That milk in the glass bottles was the best! Our milk man was such a nice guy. His wife had chickens and sometimes he had fresh eggs, his wife baked cookies, pies and cakes and they were such a treat. Don’t know if he was supposed to sell that stuff but we bought it and enjoyed it never once thinking it was unsafe or tampered with. Today is sure different. Loved our milkman!
The blacksmith is still very much alive and thriving. Today, iron forging is a symbol of artistry more than anything else, and is often associated with custom hand-made iron projects.
Many are farriers making horse shoes. I also learned to do forge work when in the Air Force. The career field of metals processing specialist required knowledge of the furnace and heat treating metals.
I remember the Wanzer milk delivery man and his milk truck that he drove standing up. Always thought that was so cool as a little boy. Thanksgiving and Christmas we’d order egg nog in addition to milk delivery. I miss the sound of typewriters tapping in the office.
Ah when life was simple , or so we thought! I’m 64 , I remember the gas station attendant, the milk man ,the Helms man , going to the movies with the projector man up in the little window to name a few. I miss those days! I’ve got fond memories of my childhood ❤❤😊😊
Been there. The house is actually a museum. Very interesting. As you go up the stairs, there's a picture of, I believe it was Lincoln's tomb (could be Grant's). I was just learning to read. The picture had the words, Our sacred dead. I read it out loud as our scared dead. Got a lot of chuckles for that.
Not only did the sharply dressed gas station attendant check oil and wash windows, the station always had S&H stamps and free gifts when you filled the tank. Glassware,coffee mugs,car accessories etc. I even remember my father getting a free wrist watch! Esso used to give us Tiger Tails for our bikes!
They still have milk delivery men in the UK!! The loud humming of their electric carts woke me up every morning when I lived over there. 1960’s SF Bay Area, we had a bread man up until mass produced bread became more commonplace… his different fresh breads, rolls, and hot cross buns were the best… nice and chewy, and never squished through your hands from all the air pockets like cheap store bread!! My first job was as a newspaper carrier (bicycle) in 1969!! Up at 3am rain or shine… 365 days a year!! The few tightwads who didn’t tip me often found their paper in the street or on the roof!! It was hard work!!
Wow I used to live in Westmount and we had a milkman up until 1960. When we 1st arrived in westmount/ Montreal in 1956 the milkman delivered milk using a cart pulled by 2 horses. Miss all that. Used to feed his horses apples
@@margotconway8605 that’s cool. I grew up in Beaconsfield born in 1961. Moved to NDG when I went to Concordia and now live in Ile Perrot. The guy who was the milkman he had been doing it for 42 years when he retired.
I was born in 87 and caught the tail end of the Milk man. We still had one on the early 90s. He even brought Apple Juice. That Apple juice was so good. Came in a Jar of course and was more than likely more natural.
The only jobs I don’t personally remember was the knocker-upper. Home delivery of ice, not really, but it could be delivered for large events, picnics, fairs, sporting events. I think this is probably still true. I know where there remain outdoor block ice and bagged ice freezers usually outside convenience, beverage, or grocery stores. My great grandfather was an iceman with a horse and ice wagon. His horse’s name was Peggy or just Peg. I have his ice tongs and chisel on display in my house.
My uncle Chris was a toll collector on The Golden Gate Bridge for 14 years (1967 to 1981.) They stopped using toll collectors several years ago. When he started to toll was 25 cents each way. In 1981 you paid $1:25 southbound and northbound was free. The fare is now $9.00. If you commute that's $4,680 a year to cross the bridge.
TV Repairman, Rag man, Junk Man, Oil salesman, Aluminum siding salesman, Fuller brush Man, Mosquito control truck driver, knife and blade sharpener are just a few from my 60's childhood in NJ.
Laughing because I'm old enough to have worked two of these jobs, as soda jersey and then trunk-line telephone operator. Both were great experiences as a young person, learning how to deal with others.
Soda jerk, not jersey :) My father worked at a dairy farm while in high school during the Great Depression - milking & delivering before school, milking in evening before homework. He lived with the dairy's family and brought home his pay for his family. My grandmother told him "Boy, you drink as much milk as you can every day" (the family was in abject poverty through the Depression). Just a little walk through memories :)
My first real job was as a telegraph messenger in 1968. I made a dollar an hour and bicycled all over our town of Victoria, BC Canada. I went from there to being a pump jockey at a gas station.
We still have milkmen here in the UK. They don't visit everyone, but they are useful for the elderly, the disabled, etc. One thing I remember that we definitely don't have anymore is the coalman.
I ALWAYS LOVED THE OLD ELEVATORS!!! THE OPERATOR HAD TO SHUT THE OUTER DOOR, THAN PULL THAT INNER CAGE LOOKING THING CLOSED. IT WAS NEAT TO WATCH THE OPERATOR MAKE THE CAR LINE UP WITH THE FLOOR !!
Union national bank in pgh hq had those at least till summer 1984 I worked there summers and vacations till I graduated. Bank long since merged with others 3-4 times.
I used to be a film projectionist and chief cinema technician up until being made redundant in 2012. Running anything up to 12 screens all by myself. It was a brilliant job and I loved it. I lament the loss of that career.
Does anyone remember the bathroom attendants. When you went to a store public bathroom, you were greeted with a smile. Given lavish soap and fresh towelettes. When finished washing, there was a choice of perfume. I'm not sure how the men's washroom worked, though. Defenatly made the washroom experience special.
(This is Tom, not Sandra.) Fantastic video!! Thank you for sharing it here on FB. As much as things are easier and quicker with up-to-date automation these days, l still miss the old-school things of the past that l remember from the 1960's when l was a kid. Again, thank you for this brief historical video of must simpler times in America. May GOD bless you and yours.
I remember my grandparents having an old ice chest & the excitement of the ice man bringing in the huge chunk of ice. The milkman delivering the milk, which seemed strange, because my father & we hand milked the cows & sold the water cooled milk in what was called the milkcan. Then a milk truck came & picked up the many cold water cooled milk - cans. What a hard, but fun time to live. People were connected with each other. 4:30am was time to milk & then again at about 4:30pm, do it all over again. Those were the days! Right Edith🎶 Bunker?
1. Telegraph operator 2. Gas station attendant (that's not true in nj and oregon and guam) 3. Bowling alley set up pins 4. Milk man 5. Ice man 6. Knife sharpener 7. Elevator operator 8. Soda "jerks" making soda at like a dinner type place 9. Iron smith 10. Film projectornist
I knew a guy years ago that drove a milk truck in San Marcus, California. I hope the guy's still around and I hope the guy is still delivering milk. His license plate said ...RT53 moo. God bless that guy he was really nice. The very definition of a great "delivery guy"
I’m 69. I remember the milk man delivering milk and dairy and bread to our house in NY . Truck would pull up around 630 am . Also remember the clang of the bell when the knife sharper truck was driving thru the neighborhood. And the Good Humor ice cream man
I’m a Millennial but I feel like we could bring some of those jobs back because I really appreciate all the modesty and kindness that the world had back then.
I still have a functioning battery operated alarm clock that my parents bought over sixty years ago. They're both long gone but the clock is still working. I think it's going to outlast me. I'm now in my mid seventies.
I recently BOUGHT a battery operated alarm clock ⏰ because I slept through my iPhone alarm, was late to work, and that can’t happen again ! So, now I have two alarms that are set one minute apart 😅
Gosh everything you showed I grew up with. I remember the milkman. Elevator operators were very polite and courteous. Kids just loved the soda jerks was a favorite in my day. They were the favorite place when we were kids at Halloween they gave us the biggest candy bars. Oh you can never imagine how good memories we have now.
Oberweis Dairy also offers home delivery of milk, ice cream, etc. With enough older and handicapped people around, that would be a good reason to bring back this practice.
I still remember getting milk and other dairy products delivered through milk chutes in the walls. I got stuck in one as a kid. We had shops for everything. Shoe repair, TV and radio repair etc,. We took our light bulbs back and got replacements. People on wagons and trucks in the neighborhoods bringing fruit and meat. We didn't have large grocery chains. Everything was locally owned. Still had a few in the early 70s.
Today's gas stations you pump your own gas, clean your own windows and on occasion when you do happen to go inside to purchase something, you get dirty looks and a bad attitude from the cashiers. Plus the ground outside where the gas pumps are are filthy and look like they haven't been cleaned in 20 years! Now That's progress aye!
That type of service is sad to read ⛽️ Where I am, in the Midwest, we frequent Quik Trip, gas and also a convenience store, with many kinds of drinks, snacks, hot dogs on heated roller bars, a pizza 🍕 kitchen with other to-go hot foods, and they WANT you to come in, they frequently mop the floors, and hose off the outside areas. They always say something nice, “See ya later”, as you leave. Acting or not, they make it sound sincere. It makes a difference ✨
It's not really the fact that these jobs have disappeared that kind of sucks. It's more the fact that these kinds of jobs, including ones that are still around today, were something that an adult man could do and support himself, if not a whole family.
I am 70 and remember Martin, the Borden's milk man. During the summer, I gave him 31 cents for a quart of chocolate milk, it had slivers of ice in the glass jug. Great old days and remember full service gas stations. The old lamp lighters who lit and turned off gas lighting each day.
When I was a kid we had a milkman who delivered milk and eggs and butter. I also remember someone pumping our gas into the car. My mom usually went to the same station so the attendant was a familiar person to us.
I also remember the Baker man who came around in a truck. I was about 8 I'm 74 now and my parents became friends with one as we lived in california at the time and both he and my parents were from massachusetts.
In my country, we still have gas station attendance at some stations. We don't have gas stations, where you immiduatly can pay by card. Only to a cashier. Attendants start fueling while you return to the car and will always wipe with a cloth near the gas tank hole. And knife sharpeners still exist, too. I know that some haredrassers and manicure masters use their services for their professional equipment. Blacksmiths exist, too, and their handmade furniture and things cost quite a lot
I worked at an ARCO service station while in high school 1971-1973. To this day I remember a lady driving in, in an old Rambler, and getting $0.25 in gas and getting windows washed, oil checked and air in the tires checked. Good times!
@greglancaster1079 “Fill ‘er up, with Regular!!” My old Service Station even gave us a newspaper to read if we filled the tank!! Until 1997 3 teens surrounded and serviced your car in the SF Bay Area, at an original Union 76 gas station (now a Uhaul franchise)!! How many jobs were cut by “technology” (actually cheap companies squeezing every cent to make their $60m salaried CEOs richer)!!
In the 1960s, my older brother worked at a company that collected empty milk bottles, cleaned them and sold them back to the dairy companies. In 1970 , on a cross-country hitchhiking trip, I encountered a self-service gas station in Los Angeles and thought to myself that it would never catch on because no one would want to pump their gas when they could just stay in their car and let the attendant pump it
We used to have a 'ragman'. Before I was born, he would come around in a horse drawn wagon and ask for old rags that you had discarded. Later on, that changed to small trucks. People would save their old rags for the ragman. I don't remember if the ragmen actually paid for your rags. By the 60s these guys were long gone. In '65, Bob Dylan mentioned them in a song: "Oh the ragman draws circle up and down the block... "
The younger generations may not care, but I still remember when you coudn't pump your own gas. That's also when stores closed on the weekends, and NOTHING was open on Sundays! Ahh the milk truck. Used to LUV riding along in the truck. I'd run up the road jump in the truck and hop off at my house.
Haha this is fun. My dad was a milkman for a while in his late 20's. And I still remember the smell of the purple ink mimeograph machine. When I was just 6 I visited my grandmother who was a telephone operator at one of the big financial sky scrapers in San Francisco back in the 1960's. Ah the memories.
Back in the 70’s, I played in a band with a guy that delivered milk. Our band played from 10pm to 2am-3am and as soon as we were finished, he would go fill up his truck(s) and go deliver milk, juice and cream from around 4am until 10am-11am. Then go home and sleep. He never worked weekends. He had it pretty sweet and I often wonder what happened to him.
One that you didn't mention was the diaper service. Before the advent of disposable diapers, you could pay a service to take your baby's soiled diapers, clean them, and return them to you. Once disposable diapers were invented, the diaper services disappeared. Notice that a lot of these jobs like bowling pin setters and newsboys and soda jerks used to offer gainful employment to teenagers looking to earn some money. One downside of all the automation was that there are fewer and fewer unskilled jobs that young people with no skills can obtain.
- Window Painters ( In the day before vinyl decals, windows were painted with the shop's name ) - TV Repairmen - Cobblers - Those who fixed cobblestone streets - Power meter readers ( Have been replaced by self reporting meters )
Back in the 1950 & 70's besides the bread & milkman we had a bleach guy & Charlie Chip ( sold great delicious cans of potatoe chips & pretzels ) stop by our house every two weeks. Also had an a life insurance agent that would stop by to collect payment. Also had a guy carrying a huge bag of handy household items. If he did not have want you wanted he would stop back.following week with it. Good old days.
I had a paper route Took a while to put the inserts into the Sunday paper and they were heavy in the paper bag strung over your shoulders, a bag on each side
Remember in the 1980’s… When some wise guy took millions of unused heavy paper glass milk bottle caps and then printed pictures of characters on them to sell as “POGs”!! I looked at them suspiciously and you could still see the outline of the center thumb tab!! My kids just loved them… for a day or 2!!!
We had a Twin Pines Dairy that would deliver milk in glass bottles, and the Good Humor Ice Cream truck, we could hear the bells ringing for blocks letting us know he was coming. The fun of growing up in the 60s.
Fuller brush and Avon sales were door to door in the 60s. Across from the ford world headquarters building in Dearborn Michigan there were tall booths on the shoulder of Michigan ave, where an operator would change the traffic signals.
I was a pump jockey twice , in'65 at 15 and '70 at 20 y.o. . My dad (1907-'69) was a pin setter in '15-'17 . My godfather was a milkman in orange co. ca. from '52-'73 .
Being a kid in the earIy 50's, I even remember the horse drawn wagons of the miIkman and breadman , and sneaking aboard as the mikman waIked behind the houses and the horse puIIed the wagon to where it knew the miIkman wouId come out from behind the houses
Which job do you want to bring back?
I wish real people would narrate these videos. Bring them back please!
I dont even own a car and I miss gas station attendants. I miss them
I’d like to see the knocker upper come back. It’s easier to get up when there is someone telling you to!
@@1gx619Queen Elizabeth 2nd was woken up every morning at 9am with a bagpiper at her window
Service station attendants to fill up your vehicle, check the oil and water. When I was in Spain a few years ago they still had them. Creates jobs also
Retired movie theater projectionist here. Man I loved that job.
Literally watching movies for a living. Those were the times, man.
@@andreilacerda5634 I got paid full salary to play games and watch movies for years, but it got tedious and boring over time.
It also made me lazy, so i had to find a proper job.
My dad did that. Two projectors, changing and rewinding reels, splicing and getting them back in the projector if the film split. I also remember the 8 second dot on the upper right side of the picture. You see the first dot, start counting to eight, at 8 you shut off one projector and turn on the other and the movie would continue without a pause.
How much did you get per month. must have been a cool job.
My family had milk delivered to our house until I was in the 2nd grade.The milkman was named Mr.Marcos.I liked him,he often left me a carton of chocolate milk.
That's so sweet that he left you a carton of chocolate milk. 🥰
@@jenniferhansen3622 He was a real nice guy.I missed his visits,but by then my mother bought milk at the grocery store.I did some telemarketing in the '80's,once I called a woman named Marcus who turned out to be his daughter in law.She told me many of his former customers had fond memories of him.What little home delivery there is now is to older people who are unable to get out & shop for themselves.
Oh my, chocolate milk from the dairy delivered in glass bottles with the foil on top.
I can still taste how delicious it was. Good days!
Couldn't get milk, but we had a soda guy
@@andreim5973 What does that mean?
I just love how people dressed back then. From a milkman and a gas station attendant to a bus driver, everyone took their job seriously.
People had respect for others back then.
Absolutely
That one dude was bowling in a suit.
Hmmmm...Milenials..Hmmm...GenZ 😂
We got milk when I was a kid. Not everyday, but a few times a week. We were so excited when we occasionally got chocolate milk. We also got potato chips delivered in big metal cans. They were good.
I remember the ice man, the milk man, and the bread man. I also remember when you actually got service at a gas station that included a washed windshield, oil level checked, and tire air pressure checked. All with a smile and an attendant wearing a uniform and a tie. That’s back when the customer actually mattered.
Last time I was driving thru NJ they still had gas station attendants. I worked as one myself.
@@ancestralred Because NJ is still one of the few remaining States where it is illegal to pump your own gas.
Yes, we had a milk man.
@@ancestralredNJ doesn't allow self service gas pumping.
@@yvonneplant9434 That’s a good idea. Avoids gas and dash.
Elevator operators always got the shaft. 😅
Iove it !
They really had their ups and downs.
That job always pushes my buttons.
@@bobcostas5094 - That joke is on another level.
The job that gives you a raise and then is a letdown
Soon people won't know what a cashier was at a supermarket.
Wrong! There is a big pushback at many stores who don't want to pack their own bags, and theft from the sef-serve is so bad that a Iot of stores are putting cash registers back in service !
Self service check out, while convenient cannot become universal due to theft issues.
I work at Trader Joe’s. We will always have cashiers. Some people prefer the human interaction experience. That may change though. You are correct.💚💚💚
It’s sad
Now people get paid to watch you cash yourself out
When I was a cashier I had to type in the prices and manually input coupons and such and didn’t have a bagger most of the time so had to bag the groceries too
That is just wrong
My father ran a home delivery route for Dixie Belle Dairy, that closed in 1971. I ran a milk/ice cream wholesale route for Pet dairy, that got bought out by Land-o-Lakes in the mid 80s. I bought the truck I drove in 1987 for $100, putting in an engine and driving it home. Taking the bed off,(Which I still have and still keeps everything frozen) I turned it into a 1975 GMC C6500 Cab over 26 foot pickup. I later sold old Truck #217 as a show truck for $30,000.
One job that has come back recently was home delivery of groceries.
I do this.
It never really left.
That's the insane thing we all waited for the future and all we got was what we had in the past lol
@@James-kv6kb Sometimes new ideas turn out to be bad ones. Like streets being closed off so pedestrians could use them, and all it caused were traffic problems so they had to reopen them and allow vehicular traffic again.
BUT they don't, check....use before dates!!/. when they pick out,food and drinks!!/. even curb side. pick up!
Worked in a service station as a teenager back in the late 60's for a buck an hour. Take home pay for the week was $32 . Regular gasoline would set you back a whopping 34 cents a gallon.
I remember buying a gallon of gas for the mower at twenty-five cents in 1969.
You just described my life also in the 60s
I worked at a full service gasoline station and gas was 48 cents. I was earning 68 dollars every two weeks. Back then we were opened 6:00 am to 11:00 pm, seven days a week.
I remember when the gasoline in Canada went over a dollar a gallon. None of the pumps had the extra numeral because no one ever thought the price would go that high.
The take home pay was $32 but the rent for a 3 bedroom house for the whole month was like $50? Lol
I remember the Borden's delivery man bringing the milk in and putting it in the refrigerator. He also brought chocolate milk and other dairy products. I always thought that it was a luxury, having the delivery that way. Now I order fresh groceries online and they are delivered to my porch within hours. I'm 70 years old now and I STILL think it's an absolute luxury to have grocery delivery. I love it and plan to continue it. I tip very well and as I can't get around very well the service is a blessing.
In the 1960s our house had a tiny door which opened outward so the milkman could make his delivery without coming into the house.
We had a milk shute
I remember getting a flat tire in the sixties. The gas station attendant took the tire off, patched it and put it back on - no charge. Also, if you were having a mechanical issue, attendants would easily spend an hour trying to nail down the issue for you - no charge. It was a mystery to be solved - not a chance to make money.
In addition to the milkman, we had the egg man, who also took orders for beef raised locally by his sons. It would be cut to order, wrapped, and delivered to the local frozen meat locker. (It was a rented public storage unit for frozen food, back in the days of tiny home freezers.)
And in addition to the egg man we also had the Walrus!
@@Ghostcoast1 Oh, goody! Did he bring whale blubber to your igloo?
@@williamdonahue6617 No, that was my failed attempt at making a Beatles reference apparently...
My dad became friends with former milkman and newspaper man until today they are already 80+ years old. I remember back in 90s then every morning the newspaperman and milkman will deliver their goods to our house everyday 7 times a week. Until my dad invited them to come over on my birthday at the afternoon and they really came and gave me present too! What a nice memory for those two guys that made my childhood.
The character on Rowan and Martin Laugh In “Earnestine the a phone operator “ One Ringy dingy. Two Ringy dingy…”
Lily Tomlin is beautiful .
Followed by, "Is this the party to whom I am speaking?"
My dad loved that show!
i miss when people used to interact with each other, i think that’s why a lot of people suffer from anxiety nowadays
This nearly made me cry. My late father worked for a Remington-Rand dealer, and by the time he was 25, he could probably fix an IBM Selectric in the DARK.
Being a kid in the 1960s I can remember the Milkman the breadman and movie theaters showing a cartoon before the main feature usually a risque Pink Panther
Wait, what? There was a breadman😮
@@lynnelhampton-bott6917 he delivered fresh baked bread, donuts, rolls, pies, cakes and cookies. I remember him bringing them in on a tray and we have the option to pick what we wanted
In the 1940's and 1950's before the proliferation of television,in addition to movies and movie previews , movie theatres showed newsreels of current news stories .
I remember the Porky pig cartoons before the movie
@@ralphseewald4069
Helm's Bakery Truck in San Gabriel Valley near Los Angeles....
Eric Underwood Class of 81 Downey High school California USA ♥️🇺🇲🦅
I remember as recently as the 1980s, you could take your Norelco electric
razor to Ace Hardware to have to have it serviced. For $5 they would take it
apart, clean it, and lubricate all moving parts. You did that maybe once every
year or 2. When you bought a Norelco, it was with the intention of having it
for life. Not anymore. Now you buy one, it lasts maybe 2 or 3 years, you toss
it, and you just buy a new one.
I'm 74 from New Jersey and I remember the coal delivery guy humping coal in a large canvas bag 50 feet to the coal chute in the cellar! A very tough job !😂😮
Jersey. What’s up brother.
It's hard to imagine the tons of ice and coal those delivery men carried each day.
I use to be a milkman .
Damn your old
@@elfatboy420 ancient
Thank you for your service
@@Chamzat_Khimaev you are welcome
So like. How did it work? Say I'm living in that era. Do I have to pay a subscription for you to make a stop at my place or?
Remember the milky here in Australia they used horse and cart.The milky would jump off and deliver to 3 houses as the horse moved to the 4th house and waited for him.A truck can’t do that.
Smart horse!
I might be wrong, but I think the three ice men together were the three stooges, Moe, Larry and Curly. 😂
U are not wrong the greatest comedy team of all time
Wheres shep
@@frankbridges2171 I'm a 36 year old woman and I concur!
i remember that episode. they sent Curly up a long flight of steps with those large ice blocks. when he got to the top, they were little ice cubes
@@zeepping it was hilarious
Good old days , I used to help my brother in law deliver milk door to door when I was 7 yrs old , good times
Losing blacksmithing as a job and having it be reduced to just a hobby is a tragedy.
That milk in the glass bottles was the best! Our milk man was such a nice guy. His wife had chickens and sometimes he had fresh eggs, his wife baked cookies, pies and cakes and they were such a treat. Don’t know if he was supposed to sell that stuff but we bought it and enjoyed it never once thinking it was unsafe or tampered with. Today is sure different. Loved our milkman!
It's from before my time, because I was born in 1992. I love history.
We had a milkman delivery at my house up until around 2006. Winder Dairy, i still use the cooler that use to be by the front door.
The blacksmith is still very much alive and thriving. Today, iron forging is a symbol of artistry more than anything else, and is often associated with custom hand-made iron projects.
Many are farriers making horse shoes. I also learned to do forge work when in the Air Force. The career field of metals processing specialist required knowledge of the furnace and heat treating metals.
I LOVE ALL OF THIS!!! IM 67 SO I REMEMBER QUITE A BIT OF THIS!!! KIDS NOWDAYS HAVE NOT A CLUE OF ANY OF THIS!!
Yes, we had a milk man too.
But I really don't see how today's kids are missing something by not knowing about it.
Ok ,did You graduate high school!!! Duh
@@yvonneplant9434”THESE KIDS TODAY!!!” - every generation once they aren’t kids anymore
why? People watch movies. I am 40 and have seen all of that in movies
Nothing like the refreshment stands with red bar stools at Howard Johnson’s or Kresge stores. Burgers so good. Fountains of soda swirling
When was the last time you saw a TV repair man?
Remember Fuller Brush? Jewel Tea?
Kirby vacuum cleaner salesmen?
TV repair man? That job went down the tubes in the 70s.
@user-xy7lf1tx1d Down the "tube". Good one! 👍
I remember the Wanzer milk delivery man and his milk truck that he drove standing up. Always thought that was so cool as a little boy. Thanksgiving and Christmas we’d order egg nog in addition to milk delivery. I miss the sound of typewriters tapping in the office.
Ah when life was simple , or so we thought! I’m 64 , I remember the gas station attendant, the milk man ,the Helms man , going to the movies with the projector man up in the little window to name a few. I miss those days! I’ve got fond memories of my childhood ❤❤😊😊
OK boomer
John Deere was originally a blacksmith. His former shop is in Grand Detour Illinois and is a tourist attraction.
Been there. The house is actually a museum. Very interesting. As you go up the stairs, there's a picture of, I believe it was Lincoln's tomb (could be Grant's). I was just learning to read. The picture had the words, Our sacred dead. I read it out loud as our scared dead. Got a lot of chuckles for that.
Not only did the sharply dressed gas station attendant check oil and wash windows, the station always had S&H stamps and free gifts when you filled the tank. Glassware,coffee mugs,car accessories etc. I even remember my father getting a free wrist watch! Esso used to give us Tiger Tails for our bikes!
They still have milk delivery men in the UK!! The loud humming of their electric carts woke me up every morning when I lived over there. 1960’s SF Bay Area, we had a bread man up until mass produced bread became more commonplace… his different fresh breads, rolls, and hot cross buns were the best… nice and chewy, and never squished through your hands from all the air pockets like cheap store bread!! My first job was as a newspaper carrier (bicycle) in 1969!! Up at 3am rain or shine… 365 days a year!! The few tightwads who didn’t tip me often found their paper in the street or on the roof!! It was hard work!!
I had a milkman until 2010 when my kids were still home. Cheers from Montreal
Wow I used to live in Westmount and we had a milkman up until 1960. When we 1st arrived in westmount/ Montreal in 1956 the milkman delivered milk using a cart pulled by 2 horses. Miss all that. Used to feed his horses apples
@@margotconway8605 that’s cool. I grew up in Beaconsfield born in 1961. Moved to NDG when I went to Concordia and now live in Ile Perrot. The guy who was the milkman he had been doing it for 42 years when he retired.
@@johngore7744 nice to know. I knew Beaconsfield & NDG well
I was born in 87 and caught the tail end of the Milk man. We still had one on the early 90s. He even brought Apple Juice. That Apple juice was so good. Came in a Jar of course and was more than likely more natural.
The Fabulous Fox Theater in St. Louis still employs elevator operators.
Don’t forget stopping for directions at any gas station.
The only jobs I don’t personally remember was the knocker-upper. Home delivery of ice, not really, but it could be delivered for large events, picnics, fairs, sporting events. I think this is probably still true. I know where there remain outdoor block ice and bagged ice freezers usually outside convenience, beverage, or grocery stores. My great grandfather was an iceman with a horse and ice wagon. His horse’s name was Peggy or just Peg. I have his ice tongs and chisel on display in my house.
Did he allow for shrinkage
My uncle Chris was a toll collector on The Golden Gate Bridge for 14 years (1967 to 1981.) They stopped using toll collectors several years ago. When he started to toll was 25 cents each way. In 1981 you paid $1:25 southbound and northbound was free. The fare is now $9.00. If you commute that's $4,680 a year to cross the bridge.
I love all the gentlemen in suit and tie to go bowling..lol
Still have milkmen and mobile knife sharpeners up in my neck of the woods
TV Repairman, Rag man, Junk Man, Oil salesman, Aluminum siding salesman, Fuller brush Man, Mosquito control truck driver, knife and blade sharpener are just a few from my 60's childhood in NJ.
I'm 58 and I remember the milk man, the soda man, and the diaper man. By the 70s that was gone. ❤
We have milk and eggs delivered by our local milkman every Friday morning.
Laughing because I'm old enough to have worked two of these jobs, as soda jersey and then trunk-line telephone operator. Both were great experiences as a young person, learning how to deal with others.
Soda jerk, not jersey :)
My father worked at a dairy farm while in high school during the Great Depression - milking & delivering before school, milking in evening before homework. He lived with the dairy's family and brought home his pay for his family. My grandmother told him "Boy, you drink as much milk as you can every day" (the family was in abject poverty through the Depression).
Just a little walk through memories :)
My first real job was as a telegraph messenger in 1968. I made a dollar an hour and bicycled all over our town of Victoria, BC Canada. I went from there to being a pump jockey at a gas station.
Did that in 44-45, really didn’t like the black borders, always brought sadness.
We still have milkmen here in the UK. They don't visit everyone, but they are useful for the elderly, the disabled, etc. One thing I remember that we definitely don't have anymore is the coalman.
I ALWAYS LOVED THE OLD ELEVATORS!!! THE OPERATOR HAD TO SHUT THE OUTER DOOR, THAN PULL THAT INNER CAGE LOOKING THING CLOSED. IT WAS NEAT TO WATCH THE OPERATOR MAKE THE CAR LINE UP WITH THE FLOOR !!
Union national bank in pgh hq had those at least till summer 1984
I worked there summers and vacations till I graduated.
Bank long since merged with others 3-4 times.
I used to be a film projectionist and chief cinema technician up until being made redundant in 2012. Running anything up to 12 screens all by myself. It was a brilliant job and I loved it. I lament the loss of that career.
TRULY I TRULY REMEMBER WE HAD A MILK BOX ON THE FRONT PORCH WHEN I WAS A KID .
Thanks for watching!
Blacksmithing is still a job used in today's world
I remember my uncle he was a foremost milk deliverey man in the 60s ❤
Does anyone remember the bathroom attendants. When you went to a store public bathroom, you were greeted with a smile. Given lavish soap and fresh towelettes. When finished washing, there was a choice of perfume. I'm not sure how the men's washroom worked, though. Defenatly made the washroom experience special.
We need to bring all these back
Our house had a milk chute. I can barely remember it being used by the milkman. Milk was in glass bottles with a lid made of paper.
I remember some dairies using metal bottle caps like those on soda bottles.
(This is Tom, not Sandra.)
Fantastic video!! Thank you for sharing it here on FB. As much as things are easier and quicker with up-to-date automation these days, l still miss the old-school things of the past that l remember from the 1960's when l was a kid. Again, thank you for this brief historical video of must simpler times in America. May GOD bless you and yours.
You're very welcome!
I remember my grandparents having an old ice chest & the excitement of the ice man bringing in the huge chunk of ice. The milkman delivering the milk, which seemed strange, because my father & we hand milked the cows & sold the water cooled milk in what was called the milkcan. Then a milk truck came & picked up the many cold water cooled milk - cans. What a hard, but fun time to live. People were connected with each other. 4:30am was time to milk & then again at about 4:30pm, do it all over again. Those were the days! Right Edith🎶 Bunker?
Don’t forget the bicycle riding paper delivery boy.
I did that job in the very early 70’s.
You had the luxury of a bike. I had to hoof my route.
1. Telegraph operator
2. Gas station attendant (that's not true in nj and oregon and guam)
3. Bowling alley set up pins
4. Milk man
5. Ice man
6. Knife sharpener
7. Elevator operator
8. Soda "jerks" making soda at like a dinner type place
9. Iron smith
10. Film projectornist
Always look for someone who posted the list on list videos!!!! Thank you.
My uncle was an attendant in Eugene Oregon back in the 40s
I knew a guy years ago that drove a milk truck in San Marcus, California. I hope the guy's still around and I hope the guy is still delivering milk. His license plate said ...RT53 moo. God bless that guy he was really nice. The very definition of a great "delivery guy"
I’m 69. I remember the milk man delivering milk and dairy and bread to our house in NY . Truck would pull up around 630 am . Also remember the clang of the bell when the knife sharper truck was driving thru the neighborhood. And the Good Humor ice cream man
Thanks for watching!
I’m a Millennial but I feel like we could bring some of those jobs back because I really appreciate all the modesty and kindness that the world had back then.
I still have a functioning battery operated alarm clock that my parents bought over sixty years ago. They're both long gone but the clock is still working. I think it's going to outlast me. I'm now in my mid seventies.
I recently BOUGHT a battery operated alarm clock ⏰ because I slept through my iPhone alarm, was late to work, and that can’t happen again ! So, now I have two alarms that are set one minute apart 😅
Gosh everything you showed I grew up with. I remember the milkman. Elevator operators were very polite and courteous. Kids just loved the soda jerks was a favorite in my day. They were the favorite place when we were kids at Halloween they gave us the biggest candy bars. Oh you can never imagine how good memories we have now.
Oberweis Dairy also offers home delivery of milk, ice cream, etc. With enough older and handicapped people around, that would be a good reason to bring back this practice.
Where’s it located at geographically?
@@LindaCooper-i3f In the Chicagoland area. How far it delivers I do not know.
@@LindaCooper-i3f Chicagoland area.
I still remember getting milk and other dairy products delivered through milk chutes in the walls. I got stuck in one as a kid. We had shops for everything. Shoe repair, TV and radio repair etc,. We took our light bulbs back and got replacements. People on wagons and trucks in the neighborhoods bringing fruit and meat. We didn't have large grocery chains. Everything was locally owned. Still had a few in the early 70s.
Today's gas stations you pump your own gas, clean your own windows and on occasion when you do happen to go inside to purchase something, you get dirty looks and a bad attitude from the cashiers. Plus the ground outside where the gas pumps are are filthy and look like they haven't been cleaned in 20 years! Now That's progress aye!
That type of service is sad to read ⛽️ Where I am, in the Midwest, we frequent Quik Trip, gas and also a convenience store, with many kinds of drinks, snacks, hot dogs on heated roller bars, a pizza 🍕 kitchen with other to-go hot foods, and they WANT you to come in, they frequently mop the floors, and hose off the outside areas. They always say something nice, “See ya later”, as you leave. Acting or not, they make it sound sincere. It makes a difference ✨
It's not really the fact that these jobs have disappeared that kind of sucks. It's more the fact that these kinds of jobs, including ones that are still around today, were something that an adult man could do and support himself, if not a whole family.
I am 70 and remember Martin, the Borden's milk man. During the summer, I gave him 31 cents for a quart of chocolate milk, it had slivers of ice in the glass jug. Great old days and remember full service gas stations. The old lamp lighters who lit and turned off gas lighting each day.
Thanks for watching ! 🙏🏼
When I was a kid we had a milkman who delivered milk and eggs and butter. I also remember someone pumping our gas into the car. My mom usually went to the same station so the attendant was a familiar person to us.
I also remember the Baker man who came around in a truck. I was about 8 I'm 74 now and my parents became friends with one as we lived in california at the time and both he and my parents were from massachusetts.
In my country, we still have gas station attendance at some stations. We don't have gas stations, where you immiduatly can pay by card. Only to a cashier. Attendants start fueling while you return to the car and will always wipe with a cloth near the gas tank hole.
And knife sharpeners still exist, too. I know that some haredrassers and manicure masters use their services for their professional equipment.
Blacksmiths exist, too, and their handmade furniture and things cost quite a lot
We still have a milkman in our town , though its more of a milklady nowadays bless her
I worked at an ARCO service station while in high school 1971-1973. To this day I remember a lady driving in, in an old Rambler, and getting $0.25 in gas and getting windows washed, oil checked and air in the tires checked. Good times!
Good old days! Thanks for sharing 🙏🏼
@greglancaster1079 “Fill ‘er up, with Regular!!” My old Service Station even gave us a newspaper to read if we filled the tank!! Until 1997 3 teens surrounded and serviced your car in the SF Bay Area, at an original Union 76 gas station (now a Uhaul franchise)!! How many jobs were cut by “technology” (actually cheap companies squeezing every cent to make their $60m salaried CEOs richer)!!
In the 1960s, my older brother worked at a company that collected empty milk bottles, cleaned them and sold them back to the dairy companies. In 1970 , on a cross-country hitchhiking trip, I encountered a self-service gas station in Los Angeles and thought to myself that it would never catch on because no one would want to pump their gas when they could just stay in their car and let the attendant pump it
We used to have a 'ragman'. Before I was born, he would come around in a horse drawn wagon and ask for old rags that you had discarded. Later on, that changed to small trucks. People would save their old rags for the ragman. I don't remember if the ragmen actually paid for your rags. By the 60s these guys were long gone. In '65, Bob Dylan mentioned them in a song: "Oh the ragman draws circle up and down the block... "
Wood working is like iron working. It's a nostalgic thing of the past
The younger generations may not care, but I still remember when you coudn't pump your own gas.
That's also when stores closed on the weekends, and NOTHING was open on Sundays!
Ahh the milk truck. Used to LUV riding along in the truck. I'd run up the road jump in the truck and hop off at my house.
My grandmother worked as a telephone operator. Loved going to visit her. 😊
I remember how gas stations did your windows, checked oil, tire pressure before the car filled with gas
Cigarette commercial jingles also faded into obscurity. These were very catchy indeed.
Haha this is fun. My dad was a milkman for a while in his late 20's. And I still remember the smell of the purple ink mimeograph machine. When I was just 6 I visited my grandmother who was a telephone operator at one of the big financial sky scrapers in San Francisco back in the 1960's. Ah the memories.
When I attended broadcasting School in Clayton Missouri . I remember reading the news on teletype machines
And today someone still writes the copy and puts it into the teleprompter.
We still have Gas station attendees, postmen, ice cream men over here in Zimbabwe.
Back in the 70’s, I played in a band with a guy that delivered milk. Our band played from 10pm to 2am-3am and as soon as we were finished, he would go fill up his truck(s) and go deliver milk, juice and cream from around 4am until 10am-11am. Then go home and sleep. He never worked weekends. He had it pretty sweet and I often wonder what happened to him.
One that you didn't mention was the diaper service. Before the advent of disposable diapers, you could pay a service to take your baby's soiled diapers, clean them, and return them to you. Once disposable diapers were invented, the diaper services disappeared.
Notice that a lot of these jobs like bowling pin setters and newsboys and soda jerks used to offer gainful employment to teenagers looking to earn some money. One downside of all the automation was that there are fewer and fewer unskilled jobs that young people with no skills can obtain.
Now teenagers work at McDonalds and other fast food places. If they are really enterprising they can become an internet influencer.
Such an item is in need of a big return to the American public as we speak.
- Window Painters ( In the day before vinyl decals, windows were painted with the shop's name )
- TV Repairmen
- Cobblers
- Those who fixed cobblestone streets
- Power meter readers ( Have been replaced by self reporting meters )
I always remember the Helms bakery man. His name was Jerry and he used a whistle to let us know he had arrived.
Back in the 1950 & 70's besides the bread & milkman we had a bleach guy & Charlie Chip ( sold great delicious cans of potatoe chips & pretzels ) stop by our house every two weeks. Also had an a life insurance agent that would stop by to collect payment. Also had a guy carrying a huge bag of handy household items. If he did not have want you wanted he would stop back.following week with it. Good old days.
I had a paper route
Took a while to put the inserts into the Sunday paper and they were heavy in the paper bag strung over your shoulders, a bag on each side
I remember foundly my paper route days
im 24 and i did a paper round as a tween to earn money before i could get a real job, theyre still around!
Remember in the 1980’s… When some wise guy took millions of unused heavy paper glass milk bottle caps and then printed pictures of characters on them to sell as “POGs”!! I looked at them suspiciously and you could still see the outline of the center thumb tab!! My kids just loved them… for a day or 2!!!
Enjoyed the listen. Great wordsmithing.
We had a Twin Pines Dairy that would deliver milk in glass bottles, and the Good Humor Ice Cream truck, we could hear the bells ringing for blocks letting us know he was coming. The fun of growing up in the 60s.
Fuller brush and Avon sales were door to door in the 60s. Across from the ford world headquarters building in Dearborn Michigan there were tall booths on the shoulder of Michigan ave, where an operator would change the traffic signals.
I was a pump jockey twice , in'65 at 15 and '70 at 20 y.o. . My dad (1907-'69) was a pin setter in '15-'17 . My godfather was a milkman in orange co. ca. from '52-'73 .
Being a kid in the earIy 50's, I even remember the horse drawn wagons of the miIkman and breadman , and sneaking aboard as the mikman waIked behind the houses and the horse puIIed the wagon to where it knew the miIkman wouId come out from behind the houses
My dad was a pin setter at a bowling alley as a kid in the 1930s.