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"Death by Typewriter": How Dan Jenkins Dreamed of Using His Olympia to Kill...
Dan Jenkins at his Optima Model 105 portable typewriterHere’s how I want the phony little conniving, no-talent, preppiewad asshole of an editor to die: I lace...
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We've Been Talkin''Bout Jackson (Typewriters)
There’s more than one way of knowing for sure that a certain model of typewriter went into production, even a very rare one. Take, for example, the Jackson, about which there continues to be much...
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The Little Royal Typewriter That Roared
Facebook reminded me yesterday that 10 years ago, in 2012, my last year working in print newspapers, I had answered the plea of a young female cadet reporter working at The Canberra Times by giving her...
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Why Wouldn’t Jack Tramiel ‘Fess Up To His Rheinmetall Deal?
Small things amuse my small mind and I had to smile the other day when the ubiquitous “Unknown” commented on this blog that the Nakajima Litton Royal portable I’d posted about “looks exactly like my...
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Elwood Haynes’ Secretary and Her Oliver Typewriter
Here we see Clara Ellen Baker, private secretary to American inventor Elwood Haynes, at her Oliver typewriter in Haynes’ offices in Kokomo, Indiana, sometime between 1913-15. Clara was to later play a...
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Lovely Ladies and Their Typewriters: A Galaxy of Random Photographs
Hazel Suttle (1911-1992)Bessie Denny (1883-1975)Anna Häberle (1905-1995)Anna Durkin (1883-1966)Annie Albers (centre, 1884-1973)Lucy Faulkner (1905-1973)Mattie Scrimgeour (1885-1973)Carole Peterson...
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'That Titian of the Typewriter': RIP Roger Angell (1920-2022)
Roger Angell at a Royal typewriter during his time with the United StatesArmy Air Forces in World War II.The last of the great sports writers is dead, at the age of 101. Roger Angell, a regular...
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Typewriters on 'The Collectors' (2008)
As ozTypewriter approaches its final fortnight of being a regularly updated blog, I've been getting a bit nostalgic about happier typewriter days, days now sadly long gone by. One memorable event was...
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Smith-Corona S 301 Electric Typewriter: $A359 in 1983, Not Worth A Zack Today
This 1983 Singapore-made Smith Corona S 301 'electro-mechanical'* typewriter (Model 3LRN, serial number 3LRN140483) was so long on my back-burner – more than five years by my reckoning - I’d forgotten...
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Shake off the Corona Bug with Dickie Moore’s Jitterbug (and his Underwood...
When the great Albert Tangora took umbrage to a $2500 cut in his annual salary and jumped camp from Underwood to Royal in 1935, it was a huge spoke in the wheels of Underwood’s powerful publicity...
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Ukrainian Typewriter Mosaic
That putrid cesspit called Putin has not spared the city of Kryvyi Rih in his war crimes against the sovereign nation of the Ukraine. On Wednesday morning Putin’s evil puppets launched three missiles...
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It Was 55 Years Ago Today, Sergeant Pepper Told The Beatles To Play
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was rush-released on this day in 1967. The eighth studio album by The Beatles, it was due to be released on June 1, but events on both sides of the Atlantiic...
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Loved But Lost: Typewriters I Have Owned (I)
I often have a quick scan through the typewriters posted on Instagram, and it can cause some serious drooling. When I see typewriters I once owned, such as on Charlie Foxtrot's account, the sight also...
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Loved But Lost: American Typewriters I Have Owned (Part II)
Some of these I very seriously regret letting go. This time there is a selection of 60 (again, in some sort of order, based on the lingering sense of the degree of regret still felt):Musical...
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Loved But Lost: British and Japanese Typewriters I Have Owned (III)
By an oversight, I included a typewriter made in Nottngham, England, a Bar-Let, among those in Part I, which was meant to be confined to Continental Europe. The two Olivers in that lot were made in...
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Bringing Kitty Foyle and Her Typewriter to True LIFE
Kitty Foyle, subtitled The Natural History of a Woman, was a 1940 movie drama starring Ginger Rogers. It was adapted by Dalton Trumbo and Donald Ogden Stewart from Christopher Morley's 1939 bestseller...
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Guys And Their Typewriters: A Galaxy of Random Photographs (Part I)
James Elmer Garland (1873-1938)Victor Elisha Myers (1881-1926)Charles Langley Evans (1866-1902)Moses Rheem Wetzel (1843-1941), who taught himself to type at...
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Al "Richie Rich" Kurzrok, Stan Lee and Their Typewriters
The Marvel Comics bullpen team at 135 West 50th Street, New York City, in 1970.This photo appeared in Rolling Stone in 1971. Al Kurzrok is circled.As a young boy growing up in an upper-class family in...
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Miss Americas and Their Underwood Portable Typewriters
The sash. The tears. The glittering crown. And, best of all of course, the Underwood typewriter. In the eight years that the Miss America pageant was staged in Atlanta City between 1925 and 1938, the...
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