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| Both typewriters work to some degree. The drawstring on the Portable is detached so you must push the carriage with your finger. The ribbons are super old, but they do still print a little! |
Typing in public is one thing, but using a display item at a museum or restaurant is another! My friend JP (blog forthcoming?) is a little more bold than I and took down the Royal 10 while persuading me to take down the Portable. We restrung the old ribbons and typed away. Mike (owner of Sycamore Deli) was impressed and bought us a beer (JP had typed "another pitcher of fat tire please" as his first sentence on the 10 and it ended up being a pretty choice sentence)!
Oh yeah, and the Barnacle Boy was an awesome burger. The burger was larger than my bun just slightly; no bites without any meat is a good burger in my book.
Who knew typewriting could get you a beer? Must try that sometime.
ReplyDeleteThis place gets better and better every time you post about it. I can only imagine how good that burger was...
ReplyDeleteIt really does keep getting better and better.
DeleteI just had an idea.... A cafe filled with Typewriters that you could cruise in, sit at and type with while sipping on a Latte.... Or perhaps just a balls-n-all manly coffee.
ReplyDeleteI've had a vision for a writer's hangout in a college town where you can sip a latte and borrow a typewriter. I think a patron would put some money down as collateral which they would get back after they left. Maybe upstairs would be many little rooms with just a desk and a window looking out into the busy street below which people could rent monthly or maybe just by the day to work on projects. If I make big bucks on a book and have money to burn such a place will exist.
DeleteMay I steal your idea if my books sell? This would go over very well in my town!
DeleteAbsolutely! The more of these whatchamacallits the better.
DeleteWe also need a store that would be like an invention shop and it would sell components like Radio-Shack used to but more. Little springs and levers and screws and capacitors and resistors and wire and motors and servos and so forth. I need a 1/8" torsion spring right now and I cannot find one for sale anywhere (except online, where there is shipping and such). Imagine a shop full of little stock parts for fixing things!
Tell me how you guys go, if you manage to do this! I'm not sure such a place could work out here in Queensland - AU, but maybe if I was in Melbourne. I like the sound of that though.
DeleteTypewriters for all!
Oh hang on.... Hang on... Thinking, thinking.... OHHHHHHHH......... I just had an idea!
Scott, I just made the connection yesterday that you are The Filthy Platen. Your blog was made me want to do mine. Thanks a bunch!
DeleteAlso: http://www.mcmaster.com/
This place has all the parts anyone could need! I will buy from them soon.
The Royal Portable has the very very nice Medium Roman typeface.
ReplyDeleteThe typeheads were even fairly clean on the Portable. I need to find one like it somewhere, it was very nice to type on.
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