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There Must Be 32 Ways Of Losin' the Typewriter Blues That I Got From Lovin' You
Comments on my last blog post have only succeeded in intensifying my thinking about the Olivetti Letteras 22 and 32 (no, Ted, you’re not missing anything; 1964 was definitely the year for the 32*). The...
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Chevron Electronic 330 Typewriter
PS: The correction tape works just fine!PPS: There was a green IBM Selectric II at the recycling centre, too. I may go back for it in a week or two. If it's still there and at the same price, I'll...
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How Typewriters Helped Me Adjust to Adjustment Disorder
One of the benches in my new typewriter workshop,a major part of the recuperation therapy.This is the story I wanted to post two months ago, when I returned to blogging on ozTypewriter after a break of...
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1919 – The Year of the Portable Typewriter (I)
In its first editorial of 1919, Typewriter Topics forecast the “unprecedented demand for portable typewriters” would go on unabated. In another accurate prediction, it added that, because of “enormous...
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1920 – All Hail the Remington Portable Typewriter (And Dodge the Russian Arms...
Events in 1919 flattered to deceive the portable typewriter marketplace of 1920. On December 10, 1919, The Wall Street Journal said Remington had started making its “unusually good model” and would...
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Vroom, Vroom: Hot Rod Typewriters - Is This The 'Thing' Now?
I didn't realise I had a stock of "hot rod typewriters" until I came across this item in the Amazing Mill Markets in Daylesford in Victoria in September. Imagine my surprise to not just see a stripped...
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Identify the Old Typewriter (Cryptic Clues Provided)
How many of these 12 old typewriters can you identify? Brand names will suffice, no need for the model number. Answers at bottom of post.1An easy one to ease you into it. Cryptic clue: Razors and...
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How the Gift of a Rented Underwood 5 Typewriter Brought America’s Old West...
Louis L'Amour at his Olympia portable, at a time when hewas able to afford to buy his own typewriters.Charles Almeth Donnell died at Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, on March 30, 1939, almost exactly seven...
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Why Australia Day Should Be Celebrated On Typewriter Day
This folder of typewritten copy and letters, written by Australian journalist Keith Murdoch during World War I, was donated by his son Rupert to the National Library of Australia in Canberra, where I...
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The Gunslinger Who Died at His Typewriter
Old West gunslinger turned New York sports columnist Bat Masterson stands at his New York Morning Telegraph desk with his close friend, Western silent film actor William S. Hart. The photo was taken 18...
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Hef 'n' Tennessee and Their Typewriters
The Hefner UnderwoodHugh Marston Hefner was photographed at typewriters almost as often as Thomas Lanier"Tennessee" Williams III. Well, not quite, perhaps, but he was headed that way. And while one...
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The Typewriter Lady Who Turned Paris on its Head
Glamorous Prague typist Maria Lani hit artistically vibrant Paris like a tempest in the Spring of 1928. Less than three years later she disappeared, just as mysteriously as she had arrived. Lani had...
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'The Man Who Didn't Count': Torn to Pieces from a Gay Author's Typewriter
Gerald Glaskin at his Olivetti Lettera 22 portable typewriterIt isn’t all that often that an Australian writer’s novel is turned into a movie. But twice? That’s almost unheard of. What’s more, the...
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Journalist, Take Your Typewriter and Leave: The Coatman Cometh
The idea of robot reporters has been around a very long time, 85 years to be precise. But what Mancunian John Coatman, professor of Imperial Economics at the London School of Economics, had in mind...
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Flying High: The Australian Air Ace and the New York Typist. Two Wives = Two...
Bert HinklerBert Hinkler is one of Australia’s favourite fearless adventurers, a flying genius no less, dubbed “Hustling Hinkler, Australia’s Lone Eagle”. Out of the skies, however, he was anything but...
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RIP Albert Finney (1936-2019)
Rest in peace Albert Finney, one of the great actors of the 20th Century. Charlie Bubbles (1968), written by another Salford-born hero of mine, Shelagh Delaney (below), remains one of my Top 10...
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Happy 50th Birthday, Olivetti Valentine 'Brightwriter' Portable Typewriter
This week - Thursday to be precise - marks the 50th anniversary of the Olivetti Valentine portable typewriter being launched in Barcelona, Spain, on February 14th, 1969. The "brightwriter" Valentine...
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