Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Milkman! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Many print operations involving lead type, both precast and hotlead operations, many of which I was involved in. I did typesetting as a summer job and later computer work to eliminate the job. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot, SASS #13748 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted June 9 Author Share Posted June 9 2 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said: Milkman! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Ice was still delivered in my earliest childhood neighborhood though we had a monitor top refrigerator. Milk was delivered as were baked goods, well into the fifties where I grew. up. To this day here in rural Montana, there is a delivery service that specializes in frozen food, and everyone has refrigerators and freezers! Things change, but there are usually vestiges of the past! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 I was a pinsetter, a paper boy, and root beer stand parking lot cleaner-upper, and a pearl diver (dish washer), assembled mannequins and assembled cardboard boxes for a ladies' dress shop, worked as a stock boy and window washer for F. W. Woolworth. I helped a man install milk shed refrigeration and water sanitizing equipment, was a janitor, ran a surplus acquisition shop for a college, and tore down old school desks (I wish I have scooped u pa couple of those), and dug up and sold fishing worms. For about two months I helped a cousin strip and repaint a bunch of surplus metal office furniture for his new business. I painted signs using rubber lettering masters and spray paint can. I also picked string beans, bucked bales, and ran an empty tin can depalletizer for a Del Monte cannery. The last was what I was doing when I got married. It was a fill-in job until I had to report to APG for my first military assignment. I haven't knowingly eaten a canned pea since. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Without a paper route, I'd have been hard pressed to afford BBs and .22s. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Three Foot Johnson Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 I went bowling with some cousins in the vicinity of Pollard Arkansas in 1975 at a tiny bowling alley with either 4 or 6 lanes that still used pin boys. There are probably a small handful of places around that still operate this way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Joker Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 2 hours ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: Required by the state of NJ. It is illegal to pump your own gas there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 3 hours ago, Texas Joker said: Required by the state of NJ. It is illegal to pump your own gas there. WHY? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 7 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: WHY? Because they know what’s good for you. ))))) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 (edited) I think I found a job Forty Rod didn't do. Lamp Lighter. Edited June 9 by Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Joker Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: WHY? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg Hair, SASS #29557 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 I remember when the barber would come to the house and give you a haircut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 4 hours ago, Texas Joker said: Required by the state of NJ. It is illegal to pump your own gas there. Yep, wanted to flatten a gas jockey there that ran high test all over my Harley. Did a lot of smoking on the engine, but by the grace of God didn't ignite. Took almost 2 years to get the yellow that ensued out of the clear coat. Real good thing the wife was there! It pizzes me off now just remembering. Never bought gas again in NJ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Doctors that made house calls. I was born at home. Cost $20. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 2 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: Because they know what’s good for you. ))))) In a porcine's fundament. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot, SASS #13748 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Telephone repairman Cigarette girl Candy stripers Telegram delivery man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 (edited) 40 minutes ago, Warden Callaway said: Doctors that made house calls. I was born at home. Cost $20. My gram had 15, most were born at OLPH, Our Lady's something something. We called it Old Lady Perry's House. Edited June 9 by Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 39 minutes ago, Warden Callaway said: Doctors that made house calls. I was born at home. Cost $20. I remember my doctor coming to our house when I was a kid to treat my mumps !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 1 hour ago, Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 said: I think I found a job Forty Rod didn't do. Lamp Lighter. There are more, but since I was ten years old I've had well over a hundred. Some only lasted a few days, the longest was eleven years but I had five or six side jobs during that time, too.....and I had a lot of second jobs, as well. Whatever it took to tree the coon and put food on the table Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 milkman, breadman, iceman, ragman, tinsmith (fixed pots and pans). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Knife and scissor grinder, and the guy who would tin copper pots. Worked out of their cars and were often Romany. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Badly Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 8 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: Many print operations involving lead type, both precast and hotlead operations, many of which I was involved in. I did typesetting as a summer job and later computer work to eliminate the job. There was a Pressman's Home in East Tennessee for training and convalescence for members who became I'll. It is still there but deserted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Badly Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 https://g.co/kgs/uqmk9x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snakebite Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 As far as I'm concerned, customer service jobs no longer exist. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 10 minutes ago, Snakebite said: As far as I'm concerned, customer service jobs no longer exist. The jobs are still there, the Service portion has been removed! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Joker Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 30 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said: Knife and scissor grinder, and the guy who would tin copper pots. Worked out of their cars and were often Romany. Tinkers. Small item repairmen. A tinkers dam was a small dam of clay around the hole in your pot tha he poured 'pot metal' into and hammered smooth. Then the dam was broken out and discarded. Hence the phrase ' I don't give a tinkers dam about it.' No worries lost about a useless thing 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Leech collector In the mid-1800s when medical professionals believed that bloodletting could cure an illness or disease, leech collectors were responsible for retrieving the blood-sucking insects from their natural habitat for doctors to use. I like leeches. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Toad doctor Starting in the 1600s, doctors and medical researchers believed that toads had healing properties, and they started to use toads in the practice of medicine. Toad doctors would practice a medicinal folk magic in western England until the end of the 19th century, using dried and powdered toads to soothe inflammation as well as relieve headaches and a skin condition known today as scrofula. I like toads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Just now, Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381 said: Toad doctor Starting in the 1600s, doctors and medical researchers believed that toads had healing properties, and they started to use toads in the practice of medicine. Toad doctors would practice a medicinal folk magic in western England until the end of the 19th century, using dried and powdered toads to soothe inflammation as well as relieve headaches and a skin condition known today as scrofula. I like toads. All that quackery is alive and well on the internet! Add Medicine Show too! I get a dozen a day in my mail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Quackery? Quackery? It is hard to beat a good toad! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 But can they wart off disaster?! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 (edited) Morse Code Operator. A skill that mystified me! Edited June 10 by Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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