20 DANGEROUS Jobs From The 1970s, That No Longer Exist Today!
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- 20 DANGEROUS Jobs From The 1970s, That No Longer Exist Today!
Explore 20 dangerous jobs from the 1970s in the USA that no longer exist today! This video highlights risky professions made obsolete by new laws, regulations, and technological advancements. Learn about hazardous occupations that were once common but have now disappeared due to automation and modern safety standards.
There is one important thing you overlooked that does not exist today..........COMMON SENSE!.
The only thing self service gas stations changed was a dramatic increase in idiots driving off with the pump handle still sticking out of the tank!
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Switchboard & Elevator Operator & Projectionists were NOT Dangerous at all! Loggers, Switchmen, long line Fishermen & Ship Breakers still exist today! Also, some states do NOT allow you to pump your own gasoline.
There are plenty of loggers with saws out in the woods. Those machines are useless in the mountains. That's where you find the real men.
Also where horses are used to pull the lumber because vehicles...yes, you mentioned ahead.
I beg to differ explain why saws are useless in the mountains dum dum
@@martyn5799 Ok. DumDum, no one said saws were useless in the mountains. I said those machines are useless in the mountains. Learn how to read before critiquing and insulting others.
The ice cutting one is out of place definitely was mostly obsolete by the 50s
The plutonium for the UK’s first atomic bomb was transported from Sellafield in the north west of England to Aldermaston (the bomb factory ) by two men in a van, no police or military escort, things have changed a bit since then 😊
The common thread through all of these is lack of safety measures . The advent of OSHA and the EPA, as was automation, was a godsend. Who knows how many people were killed or had irreversible lung conditions or horrible cancers because of corporate negligence towards workers.
and the jobs were either eliminated or went to illegals, who companies considered disposable
"manual chainsaw" sounds like a crosscut saw to me lol
We still use chain saws
Indeed, I also have a certificate for chainsaw :)
I don't think safety had much to do with the decline of full service stations more that it cost too much
In some states full service stations are legally mandated.
@@johnstudd4245 You can't pump your own gas in some states but full service is a lot more than just pumping gas for you.
@@redtra236 You are correct. Full service meant checking the oil, washing the windows, checking tire pressure, repairing flat tires, replacing wiper blades, etc , and doing it with a smile. At my station we also did full oil and lube jobs, brake replacement, engine and transmission rebuilding etc.
On the switchboard operators-- there was almost no danger on the units as power was low
On switch man --
Quite a lot of yards you still manually connect rail cars
Long line fishing -- this is still quite popular
When I first started working, I delivered telegrams in a major city. I would often have to go into a multi storey office building and the lift operator was always a handy encyclopaedia. He would know every tenant in the building and not only lead me to the correct floor but give directions to the office tenant I was looking for. While lift operators are a thing of the past, so are telegrams.
Telephone and elevator operators?
This isn't too well thought out. I didn't make it much past elevator operators.
Thank You for the memories of how things used to be in the Past
i just turned 60 and i remember most of these especially from the
70's and 80's thanks and have a wonderful week y'all.🇺🇲📺🇺🇲
Today those hazarous materials are exported to the third countries where they don’t know anything about safety. ☹
I used to work at a gas station ⛽️ back when customer service was king , no way people especially old people should have to pump their own gas, oil companies are money whores
I'm a retired professional fisherman, I caught export prawns on a trawler. Your blurb about long lining, you didn't show one example of long lining. Pretty poor effort. Long lining still exists. The Chinese have a massive fleet of long line boats. They rape the oceans.
Finally, the transportation of radioactive materials was moved into 55 gallon drums where the radioactive content was usually between 5 to 10 pounds, with the rest of the barrel being filled with lead. One of the prime carriers of radioactive goods sought out husband wife teams above the age where pregnancy was possible, and required regular pregnancy test of women who had that job. a positive pregnancy result usually put them as office workers off site. I am so old I remember those days.
The U.S. government is the largest user of human elevator operators. Most are used in government buildings in Washington D.C.. They are retained mainly to curry favor with the unions.
A Steeplejack didn't clean the inside of the chimney, he built it, repaired it or demolished it. The pictures are of Fred Dibnah scaling the chimney...RIP Fred Dibnah missed but not forgotten.
You forgot that service service attendts were also exposed to dangeros chimcals like benzsen and lead and other harmful chimcals.
Nice clip of Fred Dibnah, steeplejack form Bolton UK climbing a factory chimney
we need to bring these jobs back
I’m sure glad I never had to have the dangerous job of being an elevator operator, telephone operator or film projectionist. Long line fishing is not fishing using brag nets!
Most jobs are deadly if you do them wrong.
Logging is still dangerous despite the safety gear.
Steam locomotives still exist; thus coal shoveling. Though we're gradually seeing them get converted into being oil burners.
Not every state will allow you to pump your own gasoline. Full service gas stations also aren't extinct.
Ship breaking moved to countries with few worker safety rules, and looser interpretation of the word "SAFE", putting unreasonable demands on workers with the threat of being fired with no ability to get rehired. In most of those countries, poverty was a blanket that suffocated the people, and if the breadwinner was killed, a small amount, if any was given to the now more destitute family members, or the older children were offered the job that killed their father, just to keep food on the table. No wonder they tried to get away.
nice to see Fred Dibnah
I was watching some amateur tree cutter guys. The had a maybe 3meter (12ft) trunk left. The guy cut a 2ft chunk and it fell on the ground guy. He folded completely like a flip phone and passed there
3 meters is 9ft
Did you know that New Jersey is the only state in the United States that prohibits drivers from pumping their own gas. The ban has been in place since 1949
The only other state I can recall banning self service is Oregon. But that was in the 1990's, I think. It may well have changed.
Does the ban include commercial vehicles as well?
@@rmatt24 Yes, it's due to safety issues as well as keeping people employed, plus there is no chance of a pump and run and the station suffering financial losses.
@@kenhawkins1033 Oregon lifted their ban on on August 7, 2023
@bumbum1919q What about the Electric Vehicle market? Do attendants come out and plug in the vehicles?
Miner to boss after being told to work faster "Yes Boss, I'm working as best as I can."
At 20:46 the ship Cherokee looks to be an ATF (ocean going tug) that was my sister ship since I was on the ATF 101 Cocopa out of San Diego in the 70s and I was a Motion Picture Projector Operator on both of my ATFs which the only danger was a paper cut, only with film
6:20 We are still using manual chain saws to cut trees. So, is this dead profession? 😎
every job is dangerous according to this guy
In New Jersey, you still can't pump your own gas.
That’s not long line fishing
20:20 check the strictly regulations nowadays about ship breaking in a country neighbors of India. 😎
Pliny the elder said don't by slaves that had worked in the aspestos mines and quarries because they would wear out before their time
This was in ancient Rome.
Partial message on telegraph "MEAN A THING IF" was being sent
All paychecks gone too.
putting people out of work .
1970’s ? Try the 50’s !
9:20 There are maybe 0,01% of al service stations in Bulgaria self-service. 😎
Again, not a dead profession. But you has to chack by yourself the tyre pressure and to clean your windows. 😎
Loggers ???? OMG so nobody uses chainsaws now???? Clicking on "do not recomend channel now.
I was a Gas Station Attendant in 1992.
There were lots of dangerous jobs. From World War 2 through the 60s the US was a factory country for the world. During WW2 most of the industrial word was destroyed by war, but the US was untouched. Many factory jobs were dangerous. In 70 oil extraction peaked and other resources were also being depleted. In the 50s public transportation started being eliminated causing the cost of living to increase.
With high cost of living and resource depletion factories started shutting down and moving to other countries. This continued threw to around 2000. Thousands of factories gone.
There are a number of dangerous jobs today and immigrants are the main workers of those jobs
Anti-inmagration people don't understand what they are doing to our country and the service immigrants do.
All most correct, about all these jobs are done today in India and China. The epa just shut them down in America. You are 100 per cent wrong about oil extraction peaking in the 70s, it is much larger today in America. America is the worlds largest exporter of both crude oil and natural gas today. Oil exports are at a all time high.
@@cliffclark6441 Not all had anything to do with EPA, but some were. But if not for resource depletion and cost of living the factories might have changed to EPA requirements. On top yes EPA was part.
@@cliffclark6441 some damage done by anti-inmagration people.
In the 60s below Miami FL there were miles of tomato fields. It supplied America. When the tomatoes were ready for picking it required many hands. In the late 70s most fields were abandoned, because of anti-inmagration people they moved the fields to Mexico and South America. Were the migrant workers came from. Now tomatoes cost more because of longer shipping.
In 12 / 13 I rode a bicycle across the US. In Texas I saw empty cattle pastures, no cattle at all.
On the trains heading for the port of Los Angeles they were loaded with large bails of hay.
So they tells me most beef now comes from Asia. Most likely anti-inmagration people because I did not see many immigrants in Texas. So now beef cost more because of longer distance shipping.
I wonder what else cost more because of anti-inmagration people.
Switchboard operator?
In the 1970s?
Commenting on Halloween eve - according to my Corgi's tonight will be rooof and scarry - not enough beer available for me deal with all of the barking that nights activities will bring - speaking of scarry - although safer today - cleaning of smoke stacks and installing elevators, window cleaning, building of high rises and other really high jobs still exist - I am not afraid to say the older I get, the high jobs get a - BAWK bawk BAWK! - it may be safer here in the USA, those high jobs - no thanks, as far as ship breaking - for economic and other regulatory reasons, they have shifted to country's like India, where it is cheaper and there are far less regulations around safety and the environment - still extremely dangerous! Happy Halloween everyone
1970'S DANGEROUS JOBS IN THE PAST :
@00:30 : TELEPHONE SWITCHBOARD OPERATORS ( NOT DANGEROUS )
@01:40 : ASBESTOS MINER ( ASBESTOS BREATHING HAZARD )
@02:54 : ELEVATOR OPERATOR ( NOT VERY DANGEROUS )
@04:00 : STEEL MILL HOT ROLLER
@05:03 : CHAINSAW LOGGERS
@06:28 : RAILROAD SWITCHMAN
@07:34 : COAL SHOVELER
@08:38 : GAS STATION ATTENDANTS ( NOT VERY DANGEROUS )
@09:44 : ICE CUTTER
@10:58 : FILM PROJECTIONIST ( NOT VERY DANGEROUS )
@12:04 : LONGLINE FISHERMAN
@13:14 : LINOTYPE OPERATOR
@14:30 : CHEMICAL PLANT WORKERS
@15:38 : TIMBER RAFTING WORKERS
@16:42 : ELEVATOR INSTALLERS
@18:00 : SMOKESTACK CLEANERS
@19:17 : SHIP BREAKERS
@20:24 : RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL TRANSPORTER
@21:41 : TELEGRAPH OPERATORS
@22:52 : FACTORY WORKERS
Thanks for providing the directory for this, very helpful😊
This dude acts like the 70s was cave man days! What a joke!
🎉🎉O i remember having nice job. Allowed to work ss much as u wanted and slept good at night. Even if u didn't have refrigerator full of food. At least u had Jesus Work and air conditioner and bathtub and cotton rob after bath. Nice perfume and very nice dresses and shoes. That's all. Then Glory come give u love and i sleep until work time again. Abba will be home soon. I'm ready to go. I don't like it Here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!;
Talked about long line fishing, but showed people running nets, didn’t show any long liners!!!🤬🤬🤬