10 Jobs That No Longer Exist

Dusty Old Thing

5. Lamplighter

Electricity sure did change a lot of things, including the way we lit our streets at night! Before light bulbs, the common means of illuminating the dark sky were by candle, oil, or gas. These lights needed to be manually lit, hence the lamplighter. Most lamplighters used a giant pole to reach the light and would come back in the early hours of the morning to extinguish it.