Children pre-computer, the human subspecies of which I have spoken in the past lived with some urban trades which saw their extinction.
I, as a child I was pre-computer, I'll tell how I lived the disappearance of some of these trades.
The first was the watchman, in charge of guarding the streets at night, wearing a whistle, a cheer and a bunch of keys, the whistle he used to communicate with other calm if you need support, and attention to pedestrians unusual night the club was its element of defense against criminals who might appear low and the bunch of keys he used to open and close the gates in your area. In the mornings you could hear the cry of Serenooooooooo! For he goes to open the portal to the clueless neighbor who had not taken the key, it should be noted that the watchmen were not housed with the door openers, they disappeared when the latter disappeared after being on the streets of English cities since the early eighteenth century.
When the watchmen went to bed at dawn on the streets could hear the sound of a trumpet with a dump women announced the imminent passage of the garbage truck, hearing that sound the women knew they had a few minutes to get to the site with garbage, there met all the neighbors, but this small social event to which they had known all, and awaiting the arrival of the garbage with garbage truck exchanged their latest gossip and gossip, giving personality to the community where no one was anonymous.
women delivered in an orderly manner to its efficient garbage dump that poured into the maw of the truck and returned it empty to every housewife for this to get home and wash it after drying protect him lined inside with a few sheets of newspaper, it should be noted that there were no garbage bags and when they appeared was a luxury hard to understand, throw bags Buy full of crap! It was a difficult concept to understand a developing country.
years at that time were to be brought forth in the now familiar streets s trash and their complementary glass igloos green, yellow and blue plastics to cardboard and paper.
Another sound that is produced daily, but with some frequency harmonic whistle eral sharpener, was also a clear audio signal for housewives and mostly butchers and fishmongers came with its jagged knives to the sharpener with its wheel and stone them give back its ability to cut.
remember it was a very pleasant sound of the whistle of the grinder, unless it was Saturday and I woke up with his insistence of your dreams last night, I also remember that the superstitious did not like to hear him Friday they said that was bad luck for Sunday.
Another nomadic office was botijero get to know, went to the city streets with a donkey loaded with a huge bale of straw in a network, and the straw ceramic hidden treasures which the king was the jug, the jug white after cleaning it with water to remove the anise-flavored mud, served to keep fresh water in some shade in every corner of the English,
Keep in mind that there were no vending machines soft drink cans or bottles of water because there were no cans of soda or mineral water bottles.
I the first bottle of mineral water I saw. Solares was, of course, glass, and sold in pharmacies, we must also think that then existed supermarket, much less the big shopping centers with supermarkets.
have also had to "trade" for drinking water jug \u200b\u200band not end with the neck and chest wet, but an acquired skill that is similar to that needed to drink in the boot of leather or in the glass jug wine that sold the winemakers, shopkeepers who all they had in their stores was the jars in which to store the wine that is bought in bulk at that time.
Another job that was also missing from bus conductors, rode on the back of the bus, the back door led into a lobby beginning of a corridor whose entrance was guarded by the collector who also became a judge when parents asked Does the child pay, has 5 years? And the conductor of the bus gave its opinion after looking the judge s child and had a decent sized bill paying,
The typical sentence was busman "Come in that there is room" with regulating the traffic inside the bus while his companion, the driver of foreign trade was pending.
they began to disappear and we had to enter through the front of the bus and pay the driver, older people would have said so many accidents the driver was going to mislead, but like all the new adaptive evolution emerging situation bonobos and other gadgets that simplified the life of the new conductor collector.
collectors were also at home, which I visited with all kinds of bills we have now domiciled bank accounts, electricity, water, telephone, insurance ... .. we were all pre-computer and bank employees also were sleeves and notes still manual and collectors at home were essential to the robberies that began to suffer and the computer was finished with them. Of course at that time could not be paid because there was no card yet.
In the other mode of transportation that existed then in a few cities, the metro, there was another job that also disappeared, responsible for opening the doors of the convoy arrived Cundo meter on each station, and after they entered the passengers looked none left in the medium entering and after blow a whistle shut the door
will conclude the review of these jobs disappeared with the seller of comics, pipes, chewing gums and liquorice, which were then a few more goodies and was also the person who supplied us alo niños envelopes prior informed and tiny stickers soldiers, usually older and quite unfriendly ran these vendors or at least that touched me.
seems unbelievable but this happened a little over 40 years.
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