Your article “Out With the New, In With the Old” (The Chronicle, December 21) fails to mention that the manual typewriter still has several uses that have not passed into obsolescence. A typed check ...
For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter – or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric – are but memories, or something seen only in movies. But at the few remaining typewriter repair ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - He’s only 42, but handyman Kirk Jackson has always been an old-school guy who loves old stuff. He collects old oil lamps and old coins. He fixes and preserves old furniture and ...
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Tom Hanks, the two-time Academy Award-winning actor and cultural icon, recently gifted an autographed 1950s manual typewriter to Philly Typewriter, a preservation and restoration shop in East Passyunk ...
Shane and Amanda Byrne are the owners of Clickety Clack Typewriters, a new store in Rolla, Missouri, that sells and services old typewriters and is fostering a community of fellow enthusiasts. While ...
DULUTH — Josh Nickila didn’t give typewriters much thought. The machines were on their way out by the time he was born in 1985, and Nickila, of Duluth, said his earliest memories of typing were on a ...
I am drafting this on a manual typewriter. It’s a Royal Arrow from 1950, the same model Ernest Hemingway had in Cuba. I love its glass-topped keys, its serious weight, and its gray square shape. I ...
Anyone with fond memories of the tactile click-click-click of pounding out words on a manual typewriter will love “California Typewriter,” Doug Nichol’s love letter to the machine. Will anyone else?