Speechless Sundays: my love affair with Typewriters!

Good morning Endre,

The memories of being taught to type were forgotten but the memories of the red and black ink from the ribbons all over one's hand and oh yes the paper cuts!

Make yourself a great day.

Love the photo! I think we all learned to type on a manual typewriter! Fun to remember.

Good morning Endre! Wow does this brings back fond memories! But so glad we don't use them now! Great picture!

Endre, Typing may have been the most practical course I ever took in high school!  But my typerwriter wasn't quite as old as the one in the photo :)  Bill

I have it's twin in my livingroom, Endre. Such a cute typrewriter. 

Good morning Endre. I never learned to type but like old things and have a couple of these too.

Endre,

My High School had a low budget and that looks like the typerwriter I learned how to type on for business classes. I remember really having to pound on those keys and balance my finger tips with just the right strike or my fingers could slip between the keys. But I managed to beat the class record typing 120 wpm and ironically, I was rewarded with GOLD STARS!

Hello Endre,  You always are showing an interesting side to yourself.  Nice.  Mark

Endre - that is a lot older but I did take a typing class in 9th grade which is one of the best things I did.  We had manual Underwood typewriters.

Endre I never owned one that old, but I did use my fair number of typewriters.

Endre

Now that's a collectors typewriter . . . .

Good luck and success.

Lou Ludwig

I have to say I was really happy to buy an electric typewriter, but my mom's looked very much like the one in your photo.  And I used it right up through graduating high school. Many moons before personal computers were the norm in every home.

Great to look at but I'll take a modern keyboard any day!  those suckers were a pain on the fingers.  :-)

That is an old one. I got my mom and dad's old typewriter. Just seeing it brings back fond memories of hearing the hum.

Endre,

Hess Vineyards in Napa has a museum of art.  One of the art pieces I like is a flaming typewriter with the roller on fire.  Inflammatory content of political essays is the story behind it.  I know you will appreciate it.

Hi Endre -- there's a store in Old Pasadena just for you!

Those keys remind me of the cash register keys at Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour when I was a teen. :)