Little did I know while on the back row of my (hated) typing class in 1973 I would be taking the skills of learning the keyboard of a typewriter with me right up to retirement some 50 years later while using computer keyboards…………When did I really apply all the Algebra, Geometry, Calculus, Biology, Chemistry, and History classes. Kids, stick to Reading, Riding, Arithmetic, (adding-subtracting-dividing), and TYPING!Would absolutely love to have a typewriter again
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I may have mentioned this elsewhere here, but we still have a big blue WWII-vintage Underwood manual that I used to type on, starting in the first grade and all through grade school. The nuns seemed to be impressed that I sometimes turned in typed papers. But they still found reasons to hit us with those damn steel rulers.
It weighs a ton, relatively speaking. Has round glass-capped keys and the classic bell tone. I remember buying ribbons for it (in steel reels) at Woolworths for 99 cents. A real finger exerciser. I'll have to take a picture of it someday. It's pretty dirty now from storage, and will need a pro cleaning and oiling.
We had a whole bunch of other portables and electrics, from the 60s into the late 80s (they were hybrid word processors at the end). They're all gone.
But I kept the old Underwood for my son, for when I'm gone.
It weighs a ton, relatively speaking. Has round glass-capped keys and the classic bell tone. I remember buying ribbons for it (in steel reels) at Woolworths for 99 cents. A real finger exerciser. I'll have to take a picture of it someday. It's pretty dirty now from storage, and will need a pro cleaning and oiling.
We had a whole bunch of other portables and electrics, from the 60s into the late 80s (they were hybrid word processors at the end). They're all gone.
But I kept the old Underwood for my son, for when I'm gone.
Would absolutely love to have a typewriter again
Only an electric. The electrics were much easier to work with than the manual typewriters. Shorter keystrokes, less force, fast.
I had an electric one and used the mechanical ones from time to time. Perhaps nostalgia, I'd just like to hear the tic, tic, tic,....ding again..........for short typing and letters of course
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Perhaps nostalgia, I'd just like to hear the tic, tic, tic,....ding again..........for short typing and letters of course
Mr. Seabee, this is the best I can give you for now ...
The Typewriter (1953), Leroy Anderson
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... and here's one you can actually watch being 'played'.
The nostalgia will always live on.
The nostalgia will always live on.
If I may, here is one I found in my email this morning. From the pages of The National Sportsman, December 1917. Courtesy of C&Rsenal.
I have a giant black standard Underwood that must have been pre-1957, as those were the ribbons (from Woolworth's, as you said!) that went into it. It got me through my first pass at college, and I wrote a lot of fictional words, most of them less than deathless, on it even before I knew how to touch-type. Yes, I'd like to have it brought up to working condition just to have it -- but I'm not sure if there's anybody around here who works on such things.
Back in '88 I learned to touch-type on an electric before moving to computers, so I hae no idea how much effort working on it now would take. Maybe picking up a nice vintage portable typewriter would be a good idea. But I've had the Underwood since I was about fourteen. Hard to let it go.
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Ahh, typewriters and brown leaf. Here's a Royal I picked up at an antique store a few years ago. Serial number puts it made in 1948.
A codger smoke this morning (well, sort of): Match Prince Albert in my Jeantet horn-stemmed straight billiard. Odd, that the first time I tried this leaf about a year back, it gave me the spins. Today, just a pleasant session with two or three relights. No chemical smell or taste -- but then I have no tobacco "palate" to speak of -- and a steady burn. Seems very much like the real PA that a member here gifted me a while back.
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From The Cabin Coffee Table — An occasional look back at what the old Codgers saw and smoked (with a little detour and frolic, here and there):
Back after a little hiatus ... let's watch some TV.
Back after a little hiatus ... let's watch some TV.
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From The Cabin Coffee Table — An occasional look back at what the old Codgers saw and smoked (with a little detour and frolic, here and there):
Overcoat and hat, excellent. Classic ranch house in background. Well almost classic as the siding is off.
I do believe that's Dennis Day on the TV screen. He's been almost forgotten except for a line in a M*A*S*H episode, where in a letter Col. Potter (or maybe Maj. Winchester? maybe B.J.?) writes that Father Mulcahy is "a cockeyed optimist who sounds like Dennis Day."
Nowadays, 140 hp sounds pretty anemic, especially when you consider how heavy these Fifties cars were compared to a sedan now.
"Sing, Dennis" - Jack Benny
"Styled for Action" is right, as many a teenaged Romeo could attest.
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From The Cabin Coffee Table — An occasional look back at what the old Codgers saw and smoked (with a little detour and frolic, here and there):
