Obsolete jobs

[sdcr]

Was it called Suds & Buds?

Used to go to a bar named Igor's in NOLA that had washing machines in the back for people like me with off-schedule hours.  Washing clothes was no problem.  After a beer or few & maybe some pool  while waiting on the washers, having enough $$ left to pay for the dryers was.   It was never any fun riding your bicycle a mile+ home in the dark with a laundry bag of 50+lbs of wet clothes balanced on the handlebars after that beer or few...

[larrys]

Do train crews still have an oiler? I think gandy dancers have been replaced by machines...
Larry

[steven c]

How about paper boys?

[sdcr]

The company that I worked for, did away with actual “ paper boys” about 15 years ago. These went to “ motor routes”, just adults that don’t mind getting up at 4:30 six days a week.

The newest twist, is to consolidate the delivery of 4 or five local papers, delivered by route drivers. These people are working for a very slim margin, and quit quite often. Then, the home delivered papers get missed, customers are annoyed, and quit subscribing. A vicious cycle, that continues to affect newspaper circulation.

How about paper boys?

[LowRyter]

What, no dryers also🤔😂

too much humidity there.   

[LowRyter]

How about paper boys?

Yesterday my mom called me and said she had no newspaper.  She reminds me that she learned to read on that paper and been reading it everyday since.  The newspaper company has been sold twice and is now part of Gannett (USA Today).  It's about as thin a photograph now.

Anyway, I call the paper, the guy has a Russian or Ukrainian accent, very polite though.  Anyway, my mom's subscription had expired.  So I charge six months extension on my card, $392!   

She got her paper this morning.   

[cliffrod]

What, no dryers also🤔😂

Oh, they had dryers.  The ones that cost money, money that was more happily spent on beer.  We pondered if the washers may have been set in slow speed to sell more beer..

Was it called Suds & Buds?

Nope, it's called Igor's.   It's on St Charles.

[jbell]

Motorcycle magazine editor............. sigh.