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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
@@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.
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 .
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 !😂😮
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
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.
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.
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 ❤❤😊😊
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
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.
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?
(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 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.
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.
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"
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
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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 ✨
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.
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.
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.
As a Gen Xer(born in 1978), I've never heard of most of these jobs. The only jobs of these that I've ever of switchboard, milkman, and newsboy - are jobs that I found out about from watching cartoons.
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 :)
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 😅
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.
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!
Projector operators lasted for quite some time! It was around the 2000’s that I saw the last film projectors completely fade away. Used to work in the theater myself and boy those projector rooms were *HOT.* And though hand-painted billboards are a thing of the past: I still see hand painted building ads. Always nice to see. c:
I know people making a living as brick wall, food truck, interior, sign painters; some use the computer and graphic arts electronics tools, others with spray paint, brush-on paint. Their art makes the products and services eye-catching and unique ✨
Gas station attendants still exist here in Brazil, and there's pushback to not get away with them, with many claims that getting rid of them will not make gas cheaper. And they still do the job of helping with your car instead of just supplying gas.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!
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 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 .
we still have Schwan's aka Yellow and we have Oberwise dairy and the occasional ice cream truck but I would love to see down the road the milk trucks again
I remember back around 1960 or so the milk man would bring milk to our house in gallon glass bottles. I can still see him in his white uniform. He was always so friendly. We’ve lost far more as a society than than we’ve gained in the last 50 plus years I believe.
@@jogmas12 You also had to pay for fuel to drive to the grocery store and pay for the markup and the wages for the employees. If it wasn’t cost effective we wouldn’t have had it brought to us.
@@robertlassiter907 what I’m saying here is since you drive your car anyways back in those milk 🥛 delivery days it would be like paying for the gasoline twice
@@robertlassiter907 We didn't drive to the store. Most families had one car and many of us walked even if the car was at home. You just don't get it ...duh
@@francesmaurer185 Actually I do get it. I was defending having the milk man deliver to our door. We had one car that my dad drove to work with. I walked with my mom all over town, including to the doctor. I wasn’t defending driving to the store. My whole point in all of this is the nostalgia and good memories from bygone times. I miss the simpler times.
we had a milkman who was still delivering like the old times in RI up until late 2020, he had went out of business due to the covid era and the costs of prices rising, i really hope he’s doing well
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.
My dad was a bellhop in the 1940's. Many hotels did not have elevators. He said rich people were the stingiest tippers. He'd lug two huge cases up 5 flights of stairs and get a nod and a smile.
When I as little, we had an ice box and got our milk and cream from a dairy 1/2 a mile away. Actually, the milk and cream were in the same bottle, not homogenized. We made our own butter. Easy, just shake the cream in a container and then butter and butter milk. Takes lots of work though .Miss the old service stations. Our service station employed volunteer fire fighters. If there was a fire, then no gas or service. No wonder kids are messed up today. No sense of community. Wish I had a solution.
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.
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 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.
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?
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 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.
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
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...
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.
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!
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 ♥️🇺🇲🦅
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
Good old days , I used to help my brother in law deliver milk door to door when I was 7 yrs old , good times
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.
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.
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
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?
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
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.
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.
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
We still have a milkman in our town , though its more of a milklady nowadays bless her
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
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!
i miss when people used to interact with each other, i think that’s why a lot of people suffer from anxiety nowadays
It's from before my time, because I was born in 1992. I love history.
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.
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?
(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 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.
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 miss that sweet spot of the 90s and early 2000s. Where we had technology but it hadn’t taken over like it has today.
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"
Thank you for the time stamps
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 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 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
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 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.
Losing blacksmithing as a job and having it be reduced to just a hobby is a tragedy.
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 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.
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.
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 ✨
Nothing like the refreshment stands with red bar stools at Howard Johnson’s or Kresge stores. Burgers so good. Fountains of soda swirling
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
My grandmother worked as a telephone operator. Loved going to visit her. 😊
The Fabulous Fox Theater in St. Louis still employs elevator operators.
As a Gen Xer(born in 1978), I've never heard of most of these jobs. The only jobs of these that I've ever of switchboard, milkman, and newsboy - are jobs that I found out about from watching cartoons.
I remember my uncle he was a foremost milk deliverey man in the 60s ❤
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 :)
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 😅
you miss a few what about the Dr. house call; The shoeshin boy ; The cop walking the beat ; chimney sweep ; and the door to door salesman
Some of those are nostalgic. I do NOT miss the door-to-door salesman/solicitor.
Veterinarians used to make housecalls too ...those were the days
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.
My dad was a shoe shine boy in the 1960’s and my mom was a phone operator in the 1970’s.
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!
Projector operators lasted for quite some time! It was around the 2000’s that I saw the last film projectors completely fade away. Used to work in the theater myself and boy those projector rooms were *HOT.*
And though hand-painted billboards are a thing of the past: I still see hand painted building ads. Always nice to see. c:
I know people making a living as brick wall, food truck, interior, sign painters; some use the computer and graphic arts electronics tools, others with spray paint, brush-on paint. Their art makes the products and services eye-catching and unique ✨
I remember how gas stations did your windows, checked oil, tire pressure before the car filled with gas
Gas station attendants still exist here in Brazil, and there's pushback to not get away with them, with many claims that getting rid of them will not make gas cheaper.
And they still do the job of helping with your car instead of just supplying gas.
Don’t forget stopping for directions at any gas station.
Interviewer askes me how I would describe my previous role.
Me: "Master of lifts, Conductor of vertical journeys, and Guide for vertical voyages"
Cigarette commercial jingles also faded into obscurity. These were very catchy indeed.
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.
We need to bring all these back
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.
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.
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.
Who woke up the waker up people?!
That person was at least in the uk known as the knocker uppers nocker upper
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 ran a home delivery milk route in the 1960s everyday was an adventure
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.
the milkman used to drop off more than milk at times
Telephone switchboard operators have been replaced by a robot telling us "Your call is important to us"!
2:33 back when milk was actually milk and not this highly processed stuff we have today.
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 .
Enjoyed the listen. Great wordsmithing.
we still have Schwan's aka Yellow and we have Oberwise dairy and the occasional ice cream truck but I would love to see down the road the milk trucks again
Blacksmithing is still a job used in today's world
I also remember the Fuller Brush man. I was also a paperboy
I remember back around 1960 or so the milk man would bring milk to our house in gallon glass bottles. I can still see him in his white uniform. He was always so friendly. We’ve lost far more as a society than than we’ve gained in the last 50 plus years I believe.
You had to pay for that transportation, gasoline, plus the drivers wage all added cost to the milk!!! 🥛
@@jogmas12 You also had to pay for fuel to drive to the grocery store and pay for the markup and the wages for the employees. If it wasn’t cost effective we wouldn’t have had it brought to us.
@@robertlassiter907 what I’m saying here is since you drive your car anyways back in those milk 🥛 delivery days it would be like paying for the gasoline twice
@@robertlassiter907 We didn't drive to the store. Most families had one car and many of us walked even if the car was at home. You just don't get it ...duh
@@francesmaurer185 Actually I do get it. I was defending having the milk man deliver to our door. We had one car that my dad drove to work with. I walked with my mom all over town, including to the doctor. I wasn’t defending driving to the store. My whole point in all of this is the nostalgia and good memories from bygone times. I miss the simpler times.
Here in the Philippines, we still have gas station attendants. In fact, self-service pumps are quite unknown here.
Wood working is like iron working. It's a nostalgic thing of the past
we had a milkman who was still delivering like the old times in RI up until late 2020, he had went out of business due to the covid era and the costs of prices rising, i really hope he’s doing well
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.
My dad was a bellhop in the 1940's. Many hotels did not have elevators. He said rich people were the stingiest tippers. He'd lug two huge cases up 5 flights of stairs and get a nod and a smile.
I always remember the Helms bakery man. His name was Jerry and he used a whistle to let us know he had arrived.
gas station experience is very significant ! 😢
I remember the days when the milkman would bring milk to your door, even if I wasn’t born in that decade.
When I as little, we had an ice box and got our milk and cream from a dairy 1/2 a mile away. Actually, the milk and cream were in the same bottle, not homogenized. We made our own butter. Easy, just shake the cream in a container and then butter and butter milk. Takes lots of work though .Miss the old service stations. Our service station employed volunteer fire fighters. If there was a fire, then no gas or service. No wonder kids are messed up today. No sense of community. Wish I had a solution.
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.