18 UNUSUAL Jobs That Have FADED Into History!

18 UNUSUAL Jobs That Have FADED Into History!

#jobs #yesteryear #nostalgia #abandoned

Curious about which jobs from the past would be considered highly unusual in today's world? Let's take a closer look at 18 unique jobs from the past that you won't believe were once necessary. These jobs will make you wonder, 'Was that truly a way to make a living?’. Come see for yourself!

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:19 Pinboys
1:18 Ice Cutter
2:19 Knocker-upper
3:15 Phrenologist
4:18 Lamplighter
5:20 Chimney Sweep
6:20 Aircraft Listener
7:21 Clockwinder
8:20 Linotype Operator
9:16 Lector
10:10 Log Drivers
11:09 Rag and Bone Men
12:14 Ratteners
13:12 Mudlarks
14:14 Human Computer
15:02 Slubber Doffers
15:58 Signalmen
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[VintageLifestyleUSA]

What's the most unusual job you've ever heard of, and does it still exist?

[dwill]

My father was a Linotype Operator back in the early 1950s.

[glennso]

Daffy Duck parodies Phrenology by taking a hammer and putting some bumps on his enemy’s head. 😂

[sonnytoo]

Lots of child labor way back then. Good video. Thanks 👍

[martybee]

I met a guy who'd spent his whole life mending and fixing fairground machinery. He told me the ornate wooden horses on fairground carousels all hand painted take around one whole week to complete.

[daler.steffy]

In the early 1980s, when I was in my early 30s and going back to school, I worked both full-time and part-time (as my course load and school breaks dictated) in Petaluma, CA (Sonoma Co.) at American Bank Stationery (ABS), a subsidiary of American Standard (I believe), and was/is(?) a large American corporation. This subsidiary was involved in check printing. When a customer ran out of his/her/et al. bank checks, and subsequently submitted a "reorder slip" to a bank teller (in those days), that upon receiving it, ABS printed up your check order. To get the follow-up printing process underway, the initial typing was still done on linotype machines (still in use, at least in the early 1980s). And at each machine was attached a pot of hot liquid lead continuously "feeding" into the lino, to then solidify into thin metal slugs (although I didn't know that exact process) of about one-half inch by two inches; and on their roughly quarter-inch edges the type was "etched" by the linos. Then the type was sent over to the printers in another part of the room, where they were put into jigs, in the "logical order" that would ultimately create a normal read of the check. The lines of letters on each slug read "backwards;" and when they were secured in place inside the roughly 14" X 14" jig by using "spacers" (which I think were just blank slugs), they were then placed into a locking mechanism on the press. When the jig full of the type came in contact with the check printer paper, the wording would then read as normal. One of my jobs, before I went into the bindering department, where I cut up the orders of checks (as there were usually anywhere between 8 and 12 orders on one sheet, with multiple sheets because of multiple checks with each order), was to go around to each of the press operators and pick up from the floor, beside each press, their buckets full of "spent" lead slugs, using a special cart to carry them away, as each lead bucket was heavy. The next process was to "deliver" them to an open side room and pour the lead slugs into a huge vat that held the lead, but in a scorching hot liquid form. (As an aside: A major complaint I had working there was the constant less-than-subtle smell from that melted lead in that side room vat, permeating the factory's air, sufficiently so, that it concerned me. Unfortunately, during the 2+ years I was there, I wasn't able to get any satisfying results--even after I volunteered to be on the factory's safety committee, primarily in order to advocate for cleaner air.) Looking back, now 40+ years ago, I am still feeling glad to have been employed in what would eventually become part of a diminishing printing history. As well, a wonderful aspect of that experience was, even at the time I was employed there, I knew that I was seeing--and being a part or--something that would soon be of historical significance, with respect to printing history. And, by the way, the pay was good, and the people I work with were great!

[IvanhoeWolfe-znfc]

The rag and bone.
Paper was just a small part.
Most cloth was broken down and remade into cloth.
The cloth made was a cheap ( price) cloth. Also the wear was not a good.
But it gave lower incomes a cloth to make things from.

[Thomas-yrln]

It was before my time but the children resetting the pins the money they made went to their parents to help buy food and pay bills. It wasn't like kids mowing lawns in the 60s that earned money to buy soda candy and toys.

[laurachristianson]

My dad was a pin setter back in the late thirties/early forties when he was in school…..

[CathRas]

My aunt worked in a shoe lace factory and out the plastic tips on the end.

[joeahopelto]

After high school, my first job was at a weekly newspaper that used the letterpress method which used linotypes to set the body of newspaper stories. One quickly learned to read the type upside-down and in mirror image. The letterpress pages weighed about 120 lbs.

[billschlafly]

I like the spirit of this channel, but Day Umm...the commentary is redundant AF.

[larussomusic]

I still see videos on youtube of people who do rat hunting the same way.

[eileenweeks]

I'd like to meet the people who invented these machines.