To Type, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth...

There’s a discussion in the PTF about another copy of Clarence Leroy Jones’ ‘Typewriter Mechanical Training Manual’ having popped up, and how this copy differed from existing versions like the one at The Classic Typewriter Page. This caused me to go look up the linked versions and prodded me into pondering what other Typewriter-related ephemera […]

TW-DB has been an excellent resource for typewriter collectors for many years, but is apparently no longer maintained. A year or so ago, I had an email discussion with some other collectors who had tried to contact the owner and had failed, and who were concerned that the site might disappear along with all of […]

Sears is and was a multinational brand, and so when I checked out the Canadian Sears-Simpson Christmas catalog for 1957 on WishBookWeb, I was not terribly surprised to find Tower-branded typewriters offered to our northern neighbors. What did surprise me is the machines they branded as Towers: A Tower-branded Patria? and what is that second […]

Sorry for the cold-war-era-style pieced together shot, all I had on me to gather this valuable info was my camera phone.

I stumbled across a neat resource this morning while searching for data on Tower-branded Smith Corona typewriters; WishBookWeb is an exhaustive source for Christmas catalogs, mainly from Sears, but also for other mail-order companies. They don’t have *every* catalog, but they have enough for me to start my journey. The journey starts in 1947, when […]

The post on Tom’s blog about the Tower President he’d recently serviced.

I got a text yesterday from a friend of mine named Owen, who has caught the Typewriter Bug. I believe it started from a discussion about the USB Typewriter mod kits and his idea that it would be fun to set up a typewriter with a burner smartphone or an Arduino board to automatically Tweet […]

This might look like a normal black trenchcoat in this light, but it’s made of Cashmere and Mink, and it finally fits! :D

With the recent spate of interest in the Typosphere over writing shacks, I thought THIS would be of interest. J.K. Rowling wrote her first Harry Potter books in a corner coffee shop, but now that she has some folding scratch, she can afford better. She’s building this playhouse in her backyard (she says) for her […]