My 18-year-old son, Nick, stared, puzzled, yet spellbound, at the contraption he'd just removed from a battered black box, itching to see how it worked. A few days later his friends gathered around ...
The best free typewriter fonts can be just the ticket for adding a vintage feel to all kinds of designs. Typewriter typefaces evoke images of the past, of reporters hammering away in exotic locations ...
On my old typewriter, I clacked out a letter to Dolly Parton. I figured she would be the appropriate person for my first letter because she is the appropriate person for everything. Dolly Parton is ...
Last month, a front-page Mirror article written by Patt Keith titled “Back to Basics” covered the work of Hollidaysburg resident Sarah Everett’s passion for rescuing and restoring old-fashioned ...
Whether you spend your days typing away at home or in the office, it can become frustrating to deal with sticky keys or loud keyboards. Although typewriters are essentially a thing of the past, ...
But even decades into the digital age, there are people who still prefer typewriters. And typewriter repairers still have work, living on rat-a-tat-tat echoes of an older America. Likewise, it's been ...
DALLAS -- Clunky and archaic typewriters once performed a function that laptops, tablets, and smartphones nowadays can accomplish in a fraction of the time and effort. The task of writing and printing ...
A thrumming rhythm fills the room. Six men and one woman sit across from each other at two tables. A syncopated beat builds slowly. A space bar clicking. A call bell dinging. The even tap, tap, tap, ...
That's the sound of "I love you" that should be clattering amid the doughnuts and scones at Edelweiss Bakery in Prior Lake on Saturday morning. No thumbs hovering over tiny alphabets, no fingers ...