Change girls in casinos. They would walk around and sell you rolls of quarters or silver dollars. Casino change counters - you’d take your bucket of coins to them and they’d exchange for paper money. Now it’s all ticket or cash in/ticket out/take ticket to ATM-like machine, get your cash.
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In the late 80s/early 90s I was a darkroom technician and photographer at a small newspaper. During my time there the job went from developing the film and printing the photos for paste up, to developing the film and scanning the negatives. I'm sure it didn't take long after I left to move to all digital.
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Coming soon: Coal mining. Alternatives are both cheaper and cleaner.
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I was going to say "shipwrights". Those are the specialized carpenters whose craft is essential in the building of wooden boats. But I was pleased to find that there are a couple of schools that specialize in teaching wooden boat building. Serious schools, it seems. But will still say "Shipwrights" as a nod to those thousands of men who were engaged in that profession.
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Journalism.
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I guess if all a secretary did was type letters and answer phones then yes, maybe his/her job would disappear. However, many secretaries do more than that so I don't see that profession going away anytime soon. Specialized secretaries (legal, medical) especially so. There is still a need for file clerks in my industry. The difference is the files are now electronic.
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Hmm, My dad was a milk man, my mother was a telephone operator, and I briefly was a receptionist/switchboard operator.
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Wheelwrights are gone I'd say. Town crier Ice Cutter for ice boxes Lamp lighter - the guy who went and lit all the gas lamp street lights at night.
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Bridge toll takers. We register with the company, they mail a scanner to us, we put it inside our car, when we cross the toll, we hear a beep to know some laser scanned our scanner, we get a bill in the mail. No more toll takers.
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Keypunch operators. Copy room attendant. For many golf courses the caddy job is history. With the advent of wheeled luggage the bell hop position is history.
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Real estate appraisers
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Small electrics appliance repair Any television repair PBX operator Watchmakers other than high end In-store bench jewelers Quarried stone cutters.
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Bicycle couriers. Fearless and fast, they used to be common for delivering documents in large metros between law offices, banks, fund managers, etc.
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Punch card operator.
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cigar/cigarette sales gals (they were always female - usually young and busty) that used to go around in bars and restaurants and sell smokes individually. Anyone remember that? Long time ago obviously before the no-smoking movement. Don't miss that. Still see ladies selling roses, but the young and busty cigarette gals have gone the way of the cute and trim stewardesses (now old, not trim, often male, not cute, and called "Flight attendants").
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