Of typewriter?
Found at a yard sale held way out in the boonies two Saturdays ago.
That is significant because I have, over time, become so jaded about yard sales, because EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. in this area is comprised almost wholly of used kids' clothes, toys and baby items purchased two years ago from Walmart, and home decor items purchased three years ago from the dollar store.
But out where the buffalo roam, you can still find stuff. Like this:
And also like this:
To answer your question: Why, yes, it is!
ReplyDeleteMy Mom bought that exact typewriter for "house use" in the 70s. I had various typing courses throughout the next several years, including one at the cadillac of secy schools, where I rented an IBM Selectric for home use. At the end of the year, I got to keep the Selectric because the school was dumping them for word processors. The IBM got me through most of my undergrad degree...until one day, in a fit of pique during my SR year, I TOOK A HAMMER TO IT*. What to do, what to do, what to do? I borrowed Mom's "house" typewriter and finished my degree. I had about a bazillion papers to type that last year (Liberal Arts Major) and I did them all on that little portable. My forearms were bigger than Popeye's, lol. I still may have it in my attic, or I may have donated it after we went "computerized" in the 90s. I did type several papers for an MA I was working on before that,though. It was still in great condition (I kept all hammers away from it) and had the original case and instructions, etc.
Thanks for the memories, lol. Do you know anything about the model/age/etc.?
*really, really bad writer's block
PS: Forgot to mention the yard sales in my areas are exactly like yours. EXACTLY. And then all the crap that doesn't sell winds up, bright and early on Monday morning, on all the local thrift store shelves, where it is promptly snatched up by several $$ more than they would have sold for at the yard sale. Go figure.
ReplyDeleteThe typewriter's a Smith-Corona Corsair Deluxe. I'm guessing from the mid-60s; I could see Patty Duke pounding away on it.
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