The Fran Kubelik edition. One of my favorite movies is The Apartment (1960). Jack Lemmon is a drone at a huge insurance company and becomes smitten with Shirley MacLaine -- aka Fran Kubelik -- who works as an elevator operator.That romantic scenario couldn't happen today because elevators are self operating. Here are 13 other jobs from days gone by that Fran couldn't have today.
1. Typist in a typing pool
2. Switchboard operator
3. Keypunch operator
4. Inside the kiosk at Fotomat
5. Counter girl at a video rental store
6. Projectionist in a movie theater
7. Lector, who read aloud to factory workers to keep them entertained (popular in Florida's cigar factories)
8. Factory floor timekeeper, who timed employee production manually with a stopwatch
9. Milkman
10. Streetcar conductor
11. Pinsetter at a bowling alley
13. Car hop, a waitress who brings food to diners in their cars at drive-in restaurants
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