The sudden popularity of vintage manual typewriters among the stylish has become a cliché. The design-hate tumblr FYNCT, for example, despises the compulsory, ubiquitous typewriter. As a fad, they ...
It was a pandemic distraction from lockdowns and languishing. I had somehow convinced myself I needed a typewriter. Locating one was easy, but I wasn't expecting to find Cincinnati eclectic Richard ...
Typewriter mechanic Bryan Kravitz (often spotted at our Philly Tech Week kickoff festivals mentoring first-time typewriter users) has a vision where kids in Philly schools and libraries learn to type ...
Chelsea, Manhattan -- On West 17th Street, a small shop sits stalled in time. Gramercy Typewriter Co. is the last typewriter store in Manhattan that still actively sells, reconditions, and repairs ...
When singer songwriter John Mayer talks about keys, it's not always about music. Sometimes it's about the typewriter he uses. Tom Hanks not only uses one, he's collected about 100 of them. Mayer and ...
To answer my own headline question: to connect to the Internet! You can't get online using a typewriter (I tried but I just keep getting a "cannot connect to Internet" message on the ribbon). What I'm ...
Twenty years ago, Martin Quezada was told the end was nigh. The sun was setting on the typewriter. Computers were king. Twenty years later, Quezada’s shop, International Office Machines in San Gabriel ...
YORK, Pa. (WHTM) — If you have a typewriter that needs to be serviced or repaired, John Stewart of York is the person who can do it for you. “Sometimes when they bring them in, they look pretty ...
SIOUX CITY -- A few relics from bygone eras are scattered about the Woodbury County Courthouse. Two rotary dial phones, not linked to an operational line, hang in a room just off the county ...
Computers and smartphones might be where most writing is done these days, but typewriters still have work to do in the US. Pretty much every day, another customer clutching an old typewriter will walk ...
For guys in an occupation even they see as fading away, Vern Trampe and Charlie May seem to receive a great deal of public attention. Trampe is the owner of Jones Typewriter Co. in Maplewood and May ...