Ignorance is bliss, at least that’s what people say. I can relate. When I bought my first typewriter (a 1966 Olympia SM9) , everything functioned as it should. Not only that but it smelled wonderful as well. It was as if the tvoewriter gods were smiling down upon me. In fact, it smelled so good […]
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Earlier this week I was contacted by Type Space owner Tony Valoppi. He informed me that Portland’s alternative weekly newspaper, Willamette Week, was going to be including his shop in their annual “Best Of Portland” edition. I was asked if I would be interested in participating in some way, perhaps doing a bit of typing
In my previous post, I covered the details of my visit to Type Space, the new shop here in Portland that is opening tomorrow, July 1. Here are a few of the images that I captured when there yesterday. While these images aren’t of the best quality, the goal here is simply to show the
Type Space Pictorial Read More »
Thanks to the hospitality of owner Antony “Tony” Valoppi, I was able to spend some time checking out Portland’s newest typewriter shop, Type Space. In fact, Type Space is so new that they haven’t opened yet. That takes place this Thursday, July 1 during their grand opening event. As many of you likely realize, Portland
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Despite my enthusiasm for typewriters (and typing itself of course), it seems that I’m not really all that dialed in when it comes to the typewriter scene in general. Fortunately, I happen to know a couple of guys who are dialed in to the typewriter scene. They both also happen to be authors, which I
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Now fully vaccinated, I’ve finally started to come out of my hibernation brought on by the pandemic. This past week my wife and I visited with some friends that we had not gathered with in more than a year. Last weekend was the first time that we had gone for a drive with a local
The plan had been to curtail my typewriter purchases as much as possible. I’ve actually been doing a decent job of it under some challenging circumstances. My wife and I recently spent a few days visiting Tacoma, Washington ~- where we stayed in the “Antique District”. As you might suspect, this area was full of
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Last month was truly an emotional roller coaster for me. It started out on a high note, as my manager informed me of my pay raise and performance bonus following my annual review. It ended with a hastily arranged call with my manager’s manager, letting me know that my position had been eliminated. Normally this
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I feel like I’ve been doing a decent enough job with this blog since launching it late last year. Sure, I realize that it hasn’t really been all that long, but it has been long enough that I can detect certain differences since I first started off. Because of this, I’ve known for a little
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I wrote my first typewriter review the other day. It’s also likely to be my last typewriter review as well. Talk about killing two birds with one stone. (I have never really been all that crazy about this particular saying, but in this case it definitely fits.) The actual writing experience itself is still a
