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Dancing to the Beat of a Wedding Typewriter
The Typewriter Gods most definitely smiled on us on our wedding day. The entire event was bathed in brilliant sunshine, and everything went off without a single hitch - including the performance of the...
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RIP Clive James (1939-2019)
Clive James at a Remington Rand standard manual typewriter, surrounded by other University of Sydney art students preparing the Orientation Week issue of Honi Soit in February 1960. From left, Marie...
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18-Month Typewriter-Related Exhibition for National Institution in Canberra
Another exciting typewriter-related event is coming up for Canberra in less than a fortnight. I’ll leave the official announcement to the national institution involved, but it is taking seven of my...
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Christmas 1942 - a Marx Dial Typewriter for $2.11
Above, the 1942 Sears Christmas Book ad for a Marx Dial typewriter. It was a very popular $2.11 Christmas gift of the time, and 77 years on it's still very much in demand! Santa Claus oversees the...
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Oh, Oliver! I'm A Believer (in Typewriters)
The Oliver remains one of my favourite typewriters, and like the Monkees I'll be sure to use one over the Christmas-New Year period. After all, I'm A Believer and I know glad tidings will be coming my...
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Keeping Your Typewriter Young (Popular Mechanics, November 1942)
All you need is some cigarette paper and a pipe stem cleaner!
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The Adventure of Sears Christmas Wishbook Toy Typewriters 1964-80
I don’t usually publish comments from anonymous readers, but I received one on Saturday which was sufficiently intriguing for me to bend the rule. The person wrote, “Thank you for writing the story. I...
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Olivetti DL Portable Typewriter for Christmas 1969
One of the three Olivetti portables I used as work tools way back when was a Lettera DL (DL as in De Luxe; aka the Lettera 33). I was drawn to the unusual look of it. As well, it was the first...
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The Passing of a Hero
Peter Snell, far left, was a columnist for the Auckland Star during the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch. At the Olympia SG typewriter is his ghostwriter, Phil Gifford, a former colleague of...
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Typewriter-Related Exhibition Opens
The "Yours Faithfully" exhibition at the Museum of Australian Democracy (Old Federal Parliament House) in Canberra is now open (daily, 9am–5pm) and has no fewer than 10 typewriters for use. Eight of...
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A Happy Christmas and Joyous New Year to all Typewriter Lovers Out There
May you find your true and beautiful Valentine in 2020.
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Double Joy! 4 Million Page Views AND a Grandson!
ozTypewriter reached four million page views at 11.56 this morning, December 20th, 2019. It’s been a long, slow crawl from the three million mark, reached on a freezing morning on July 3, 2017. From...
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'Yours Faithfully' - Letter Writing With Typewriters
Last week we were invited to have a look at the way the "Yours Faithfully" exhibition at the Museum of Australian Democracy (Old Parliament House) had been set up. The exhibition, which had opened the...
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Not So Many Happy Returns: The Future Prime Minister's Typewritten Letter to...
On Boxing Day 1931, future Australian Prime Minister and knight Earle Christmas Grafton Page (1880-1961) sat at his typewriter in the Federal parliamentarians’ room of the GPO in Brisbane and typed his...
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Portable Typewriters Popular at Christmas 1919-1989
1919 - 100 Years Ago1929 - 90 Years Ago1939 - 80 Years Ago1949- 70 Years Ago1959- 60 Years Ago1969- 50 Years Ago1979- 40 Years Ago1989- 30 Years Ago
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Typewriters Return to The Canberra Times!
Great piece by our Typospherian and journalist friend Jasper Lindell in this morning's Canberra Sunday Times. This was on page 2 and Jasper's stories led pages 1, 2, 3 and 4 - must be some kind of a...
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The Lives Of Us (And Our Lethal Typewriters)
An early Torpedo 18, the typewriter of choice for East German playwright Georg Dreyman before he acquired a Groma Kolibri in the movie The Lives of Others.Housebound by blistering heat (111+ degrees,...
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Tom Hanks Downsizing, Knocks Back Treasured Typewriter
Last week a retired library director in Johnsburg, Illinois, posted on Twitter about an exchange of correspondence she had had early last year with typewriter collector Tom Hanks. Marie Zawacki, 62,...
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My Entry in The New Yorker's 'Make Your Own Cartoon' Challenge
From The New Yorker, December 30, 2019
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Death of a Great Journalist
Bernard Diederich typing his copy on a Remington-Rand portable at his newspaper, the Haiti Sun, in the early 1950s.Checking my blog's...
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