June 23 is always a celebratory day for us … in part because we are increasingly surrounded by vintage typewriters (and the cats who are fascinated by them…) John’s rather vast collection of typewriters, from a late nineteenth-century Smith Premier to myriad portables to a growing mid-century collection, has offered much entertainment for the felines …
That’s right — June 23 is World Typewriter Day. And we’re celebrating with a special promotion for our vintage typewriter notecards. This mixed set of 12 notecards features three each of these antique typewriters: the Remington Rand Portable (circa 1940) and the L.C. Smith & Corona Model 8 (circa 1929), both from our own collection, as …
Back when I was in graduate school (let’s just say it was a really long time ago), a local typewriter repair shop closed for lack of business, and as someone who’d actually used typewriters (albeit the “new” electric ones), I remember being quite nostalgic about it. John even brought home one of the stores’s 1970s-era …
Our General Manager, by nature of living in a household full of them, is well aware of what a typewriter is. But there is a whole generation of humans out there who have absolutely no reference point for these ancient devices. They simply did not grow up with them. This was especially evident at the …
Typewriter Day…who knew? I didn’t know either, until last year when I discovered the blog The Typosphere, that June 23 is Typewriter Day — the anniversary of the granting of the U.S. patent to Christopher Latham Sholes in 1868. Just in time for Typewriter Day comes this article in Salon about the renaissance of the typewriter — and, …