Vanished Trades
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Once, every American town had a milkman, a switchboard operator, a lamplighter, and a boy who set the bowling pins by hand. Millions of people did these jobs. Today not a single one of them exists. Vanished Trades tells the stories of the work that disappeared- who did it, what a day on the job actually looked like, how much it paid, and the exact invention or law that wiped it out. Archive photographs, real records, and the people behind them. New episodes every few days. If your father or grandfather did one of these jobs, tell us in the comments many of our episodes start there.
Before Recycling, 15,000 Men Paid Americans for Their Trash
Vanished Trades · 6 views · 22 hours ago
Bowling Alleys Ran on Child Labor - Until One Machine Ended It
Vanished Trades · 12 views · 2 days ago
30 Million Homes Had a Milkman- Then the Routes Vanished
Vanished Trades · 501 views · 4 days ago
75,000 Elevator Operators Vanished When One Button Took Over
Vanished Trades · 147 views · 6 days ago
Before Mass Media, America Got Its News From a Man With a Bell
Vanished Trades · 6 views · 8 days ago
100,000 Teenagers Made Soda by Hand- Then Machines Took Over
Vanished Trades · 43 views · 10 days ago
350,000 Women Connected America Then One Machine Replaced Them
Vanished Trades · 610 views · 12 days ago
12,000 Men Lit America by Hand- Then One Device Took Their Jobs
Vanished Trades · 143 views · 2 weeks ago
90,000 Men Cut Ice for a Living — Then Refrigerators Arrived
Vanished Trades · 378 views · 2 weeks ago
Before Alarm Clocks, People Paid Strangers to Wake Them Up
Vanished Trades · 182 views · 2 weeks ago
10 Jobs That Came to Your Door — Then Vanished
Vanished Trades · 62 views · 2 weeks ago
11 Jobs So Dangerous They Were Simply Banned
Vanished Trades · 152 views · 3 weeks ago
15 Jobs Killed by a Single Invention?
Vanished Trades · 213 views · 3 weeks ago
9 Jobs Kids Did in America Before Child Labor Laws
Vanished Trades · 67 views · 3 weeks ago
10 Jobs That Kept America Running in 1920- Then Vanished
Vanished Trades · 69 views · 4 weeks ago
12 Jobs Every American Town Had in 1950- All of Them Are Gone
Vanished Trades · 100 views · 1 month ago