Cooper, bowling pin setter: A look at lost jobs of the past
Milkman Donald Cornell of Watertown on the job. (Submitted
Photo)  By Wendy Peterson Biorn, Carver County Historical
Society  A news article by U.S. Today recently announced the top
10 disappearing jobs in the US. One job, a word processor or
typist, had a 10 year decline of 54 percent. The reason given
for the decline was advances in technology and computers (Hess,
Frohlich, US Today, Aug. 30, 2013). How many pair of shoes do
you own? There was a day when a person would own one or two
pairs of shoes. One pair was for work and the other for “good,”
when you were out in public. If your shoes needed a new heel, or
the sole of the shoe had a hole, you would bring it to a cobbler
to be repaired. Waconia is fortunate to have a cobbler, but you
would have to look a long time to find another person with these
skills. A cobbler and typist are two examples of jobs that have
become virtually extinct due to changes in technology or the
increased affluence of