Some thirty years ago, the editor of the newspaper Eleven E did a special report on Rome's vanishing jobs, such as "Arrotino" [knife sharpener], "Ombrellaro" [ombrella repairer], "Ciccarolo" [cigarette butt picker].
That was in the 1970's...
Well, FF thirty years, and as soon as I exit from Stazione Ostiense just having gotten off from the train that came from the airport, and voila', like a surreal image, I see one of those "mestieri scomparsi" right in front of me. There he was, a surviving and rare example of an ARROTINO
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