The old building in which my wife used to work had a display case of old typewriters in the lobby. One of the security guards was nice enough to let me take them out and photograph them (very averagely, it looks like) in the last few weeks before last day there.
I didn’t know it at the time, but the building used to be an Underwood Typewriter factory in the early half of the 20th century. That’s the sketch of the factory, there, and it was the largest typewriter factory in the world. As time wore on, some parts of the building itself was torn down and made into other lots, etc, but the office space part lived on. Now it’s called the Arbor Arts Center because of all the studios renting space there.
Obviously, the first two machines here are typewriters, but the third one looks to be an adding machine.
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I miss the feel of classic manual typewriters. I don’t have room for one now, and it’s just nostalgia.
I used a semi-classic typewriter. It does have a certain feel and sound to it…very tactile and deliberate. There’s even a smell. I think it’s the ribbons or the whiteout, or something particular with the one I used.