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Red Hot Portable Typewriter Sale
What offers? Contact oztypewriter@hotmail.com to become the proud owner of these classic beauties:(No case with the Val)
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Australian Museum's Typewriters On The Move
An artist's impression of the new museum on the Parramatta River.The present Powerhouse Museum is close to the city centre but restricted in display area.A Columbia is one of hundreds of historically...
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Oh, Happy Days!
It's already more than a week since I turned 68 and my feet don't seem to have touched the ground yet. One of the more pleasant surprises was the arrival of a birthday card from Piotr Trumpiel in...
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We ARE a Weird Mob! Explaining Monkeys on Typewriters for Dummies
Outgoing Tasmanian Federal Senator Jacqui Lambie (she of the peacock feathered-hat, above) has never once been accused, in her 31 months in Canberra, of having one of the sharpest minds in Australian...
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Typewriters For Sale: Sun No 2 and Royal Flatbed Standard 1
What offers? Contact oztypewriter@hotmail.comComes with tin coverIn good working order
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Australian War Correspondent Wee Wongy Nelson, his Blickensderfer...
The 4ft 8in tall Scottish-born Australian journalistWallace Alexander 'Wongy' Nelson. The Blickensderfer Featherweight portable typewriter'Wongy' Nelson carried with him wherever he went on his...
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Why Typewriter Tragic Tom Hanks Stands to Win Half a Million Quid on the Foxes
Not having done their homework, the British Media is stunned to the point of disbelief that typewriter tragic Tom Hanks claims to have backed the Leicester City Foxes to win the English Premier League...
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Faking it with Papa in Cuba: The Corona 3 Portable Typewriter Hemingway Never...
The New York Times film reviewer Helen T. Verongos opens her critique of the new movie, Papa: Hemingway in Cuba, by saying, "At first, it strains credulity." For a typewriter tragic, credulity is in...
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The Typewriter Revolution: The Poetic Prequel - Two Professors, Two...
D.J. Enright: His "shock of grey hair ... emerged from his headlike a coil of smoke in a high wind."NOTE: Some online versions of Enright's 1971 poem - one blogger thinks it was written in 1920, the...
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How to Fix a Typewriter: Oz-Style, 80 Years Ago - with Rubber Bands, Meat...
On May 22, 1936, the Australian Government reduced the importation of fully assembled US-made typewriters by 75 per cent. People who already owned typewriters were told to look after them, keep them...
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Randy Raymond Chandler, his Italian 'Racing Car' Typewriter and his Racy...
The British-American novelist and screenwriter, creator of private detective Phillip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler and his Australian fiancée Jean Edith Precious Davis. After the death of her Italian-born...
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The Unbridled Joy of Typewriters
My grand-daughter Elly, eight months, with her mother's Remington Golightly-Riter.
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Getting SHIRTY about QWERTY (Part I)
- With apologies to Jimmy Fallon and The Tonight Show crewSt Joseph Herald, Michigan, 1868, six years before theSholes & Glidden first appeared on the market.The reference to its speed is in...
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The Aussie Bastard Who Could Fly – and the Grey Star Reporters Who Knew How...
Guy Menzies phones home from Hokitika on the evening of January 7, 1931, while postmaster Ralph Cox listens in. Photo taken by David Stevenson.Young journalists today, if denied the use of their...
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Typewriters in Transit
My "Portables, Etc" column in the next edition of ETCetera reveals the fascinating and multi-talented man behind the design of the "All New Remington Personal Portable", launched in August 1949. He...
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RIP Morley Safer (1931-2016)
Truth from the Vietnam War "shat on the American flag" (LBJ)
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Stax on the Mill* The Sydney Typewriter Collective
*"Stacks on the Mill" is a common phrase in Australia. It has its origins in an old English schoolyard game. Everyone just piles in. And that's precisely what this Sydney typewriter "collective"...
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It's Creepy and it's Kooky and it's Absolutely Spooky
Typewriter lovers, strap yourselves in - as promised in my previous post, here is a truly weird tale of typewriter spookiness.Terry Cooksley in his Antique Typewriter Service workshop in Blackett.At...
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Peggy Olson's Royal Safari For Sale: Typewriters in the News
The pale blue Royal Safari semi-portable typewriter once used by Elisabeth Moss, as Margaret "Peggy" Olson, in the AMC TV series Mad Men, will be auctioned off next Wednesday, a week after "Peggy's"...
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Early Typewriter Users
On September 22, 1873, Oakland doctor and stenographer Edwin Smith Belden (1843-1908) told the San Francisco Chronicle that he had received from New York "one of the first five typewriters manufactured...
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