Vintage professions you'd like to see come back.....

[LizzieMaine]

We still have a milkman Rue! Oberwise dairy still delivers every Monday morning. One thing I find wistfull is the Iceman, I don't know why except stories from my mother from when she was a girl. I thought it would be fun to have an old fashioned icebox and get off the grid a bit but, where would I find block ice????

I had an icebox for a while, a small one, and I found it was easy enough to buy five-pound blocks of ice at the grocery store. Two blocks would be enough to keep the milk cold for several days or so.

 

[marcoshark]

baked goods delivery to the home. When I was a kid, we had Tip-Top and Dugans.

 

[rue]

We still have a milkman Rue! Oberwise dairy still delivers every Monday morning. One thing I find wistfull is the Iceman, I don't know why except stories from my mother from when she was a girl. I thought it would be fun to have an old fashioned icebox and get off the grid a bit but, where would I find block ice????

You are so lucky! We had a milkman in California when I was a kid, but we don't have one here in Ohio and they haven't had one in years or so I've heard.
I have an antique icebox on my back porch, so I would love to know where to get block ice myself. It would really come in handy for extra room during the holiday season with all the extra platters. A delivery man would be wonderful

 

[Blackjack]

Rue...You might want to check, Oberwise's website says it IS in Ohio now!

 

[rue]

Rue...You might want to check, Oberwise's website says it IS in Ohio now!

Nope not here in 'smallsville', Ohio.... ugh. I was so hopeful too Thank you for the information though, I put in my information for possible future deliveries

 

[zombi]

We had a milkman still when I was a child. I really don't know if there are any around where I live now, and since I am not intolerant to milk anyway, it would have to be SOYmilkman! In any case, I used to love to see the milkman come.

Nursing is an extremely old profession & will pretty much always be around. Of course, as medicine changes, nursing has changed drastically -- and I can't say I'd like to see nursing go backwards, as now we have much better patient ratios.

 

[Fletch]

Has anybody mentioned a hatter? It's a shame the cobblers are going the same way.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I'd like to see actual local Radio DJ's once again. Everything is pre-recorded nowadays. Also, vehicle mechanics who can work on a car without 'plugging it in'.

 

[David Conwill]

The homemaker...... sometimes I feel very alone in my 'profession'

You should meet my wife. She is perennially frustrated by the question "Do you work?". With two kids under age four and a 120-year-old household, you bet she works.

-Dave

 

[rue]

You should meet my wife. She is perennially frustrated by the question "Do you work?". With two kids under age four and a 120-year-old household, you bet she works.

-Dave

Amen! I hear that all the time and so have my kids their whole life.

 

[scottyrocks]

and since I am not intolerant to milk anyway, it would have to be SOYmilkman!

Assuming you meant you are intolerant, try Lactaid. Its real milk with the lactose removed. To me, it tastes better (cleaner, I guess) than milk. And no resulting tummy problems.

 

[CopperNY]

You should meet my wife. She is perennially frustrated by the question "Do you work?". With two kids under age four and a 120-year-old household, you bet she works.

-Dave

used to play dominoes w/ my great-grandmother (off the boat Irish from Dunkeld), who raised 13 children during The Depression (7 of her own and the rest "taken off the road") while her husband was an itinerant worker.

anyone who thinks being a homemaker/stay-at-home mom isn't work is nuts.

 

[Fletch]

At the same time, we live in the discourse of an industrial society, even if we no longer are one. Under those terms, "work" is work for hire.

 

[Puzzicato]

A full service cobbler.

Oh yes. I see references in old magazines and things to making your own belts and "just" taking them to the cobbler to have a buckle attached. If I tried to do that to the key-cutting/cobbler guy near my office he would laugh in my face.

 

[LocktownDog]

anyone who thinks being a homemaker/stay-at-home mom isn't work is nuts.

Amen.

 

[Pompidou]

While it's not totally gone yet, and I use seemingly the last bastion of its existence, I don't want the "barber shop" to disappear. I just want a simple, no BS haircut. Salons always want to shampoo your hair before they get started, and I do that 1-2 times a day as is. Fortunately, there're one or two traditional barber shops around. That said, the barbers were pretty old when I started going 15+ years ago, and they're not getting younger. There aren't any heirs, so I'm thinking barber shops will die before I do.

 

[Mr_D.]

Window sign painters. My father used to do that for some down town shops before vinyl lettering became so cheap.

Hand painting the shop sign on the front glass. It was amazing to see some of the detail.

 

[skyvue]

I don't want the "barber shop" to disappear. I just want a simple, no BS haircut. Salons always want to shampoo your hair before they get started, and I do that 1-2 times a day as is. Fortunately, there're one or two traditional barber shops around. That said, the barbers were pretty old when I started going 15+ years ago, and they're not getting younger. There aren't any heirs, so I'm thinking barber shops will die before I do.

C'mon down to NYC -- I've got easily a dozen barber shops within a fifteen-minute walk of my apartment in Chelsea, and new ones keep opening.

 

[scottyrocks]

Theres a coupla genuine barber shops along Sunrise Hwy on Long Island that I see on my way home from work every day. Theres even a good ol' barber pole in front of at least one of them.

 

[rue]

At the same time, we live in the discourse of an industrial society, even if we no longer are one. Under those terms, "work" is work for hire.

I get paid, just not monetarily lol