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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Occasionally I’ll want to do some writing and share it with the world, but it’s not exactly fitting for this blog. After all, I do think about things other than typewriters from time to time. The thought of creating another blog has crossed my mind, but that’s not really necessary thanks to One Typed Page, the …
I can’t recall if I’ve mentioned it specifically before here on The Typewritemosphere, but it is probably worth noting that I am not “anti-technology”. Just because I am a typewriter enthusiast, I do not deplore technology. While I do feel that our society has suffered a certain amount of degradation thanks to an overabundance of …
The idyllic wintertime scene that I painted for you in my last entry quickly turned into something less than ideal when we lost power to our house the very next day (Valentine’s Day). The snow that I wrote about was followed by freezing rain, which ultimately proved to be too much for the power lines …
I first discovered Joe Van Cleave under the same circumstances that so many others have — I was searching for information on typewriters. My curiosity about typewriters was still in the earliest stages back then. Unlike most of the other resources that I was locating at that point in time, Joe’s content kept popping up in …
There are celebrities among all walks of life — that includes the typewriter community of course. While Tom Hanks happens to be a very well known celebrity who loves typewriters, I view Richard Polt as a bonafide “typewriter celebrity”. Richard wrote what many have come to view as the seminal book on how so many …
