10 Jobs That No Longer Exist

8. Pinsetters

Here’s one that we were surprised to learn about. Before Gottfried Schmidt invented the mechanical pinsetter in 1936, bowling alleys employed pinsetters. Yep, a pinsetter would set the bowling pins back up after they were knocked down, hence the name (the position was also known as a “pinboy,” since many pinsetters were teenage boys, given the nature of the job).