There are plenty of jobs these days that did not exist back in the day. Of course, all of the technology-related jobs, many office jobs, and jobs of that nature did not exist in the early 1900s. There are some careers, though, that were available in the early 1900s and still are, now. One of those jobs is mechanical jobs. Cars have always been needing work. Things go wrong all the time, they need repairing, modifying, and so on. However, the way that the job looked back then looked a little different from how it does now.

Back then there were still schools that taught people how to be mechanics, as there are now, but the classes were smaller and the classrooms looked different. Of course, cars have changed a lot over the years, so the work needing to be done on them is different. Cars are much more technical now. It is pretty cool, though, to see how cars and car mechanics as well as other mechanics worked back then.

Here we have collected 24 images of what it looked like to be a mechanic in the early 1900s, especially the 1940s and 1950s. Enjoy this interesting deep dive into a popular career that was still popular back then.