Underwood Typewriter & Candlestick Phone: This small display was in a restaurant in Manchester, Vermont. There are many who visit Vermont and wish to have a connection to the past. The...

Pixelmaster Loc: New England

This small display was in a restaurant in Manchester, Vermont. There are many who visit Vermont and
wish to have a connection to the past. The restaurant is Ye Old Tavern which is the oldest operating
tavern in state. Just in case you may know something about old typewriters one like this one had
over a thousand parts. No delete, spell check or electric, just plenty of pressure on the keys and a
quick flick of the return carriage to make it work.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Interesting. We had a similar Underwood typewriter once upon a time--wish we had kept it.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Nice one

Iron Sight Loc: Utah

Thanks

tramsey Loc: Texas

When I was a senior in high school I wrote an essay and thought it would be fun to type it. It was a Royal typewriter, big, heavy, black one. What a challenge. It took me twice as long and a gallon of white out. I think I had the first word processor in town. Thank Heaven for computers, spell checkers (they can be funny sometimes) and all the other conveniences offered.

Then I forget to tell you what a great shot you got of all those old memory joggers.

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

Pixelmaster wrote:

This small display was in a restaurant in Manchester, Vermont. There are many who visit Vermont and
wish to have a connection to the past. The restaurant is Ye Old Tavern which is the oldest operating
tavern in state. Just in case you may know something about old typewriters one like this one had
over a thousand parts. No delete, spell check or electric, just plenty of pressure on the keys and a
quick flick of the return carriage to make it work.

A lovely composition

waymond Loc: Pflugerville, Texas

I have one of these typewriters. It is a relic.

Irvingite Charles Loc: Irving, Tx

lnl Loc: SWFL

I like the photo and the memories. That’s even older than the typewriter I learned on!

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Pixelmaster wrote:

This small display was in a restaurant in Manchester, Vermont. There are many who visit Vermont and
wish to have a connection to the past. The restaurant is Ye Old Tavern which is the oldest operating
tavern in state. Just in case you may know something about old typewriters one like this one had
over a thousand parts. No delete, spell check or electric, just plenty of pressure on the keys and a
quick flick of the return carriage to make it work.

Contrast with the iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max that Apple introduced yesterday… https://www.apple.com/iphone-13-pro/

I learned to type on a slightly later model of the typewriter you show in your photo. Then I got a 1922 Remington portable. It was great. I replaced it with a Smith Corona electric that I still have in my basement, somewhere.

My favorite land line phone of all time was a 1959 rotary dial phone made in Winston-Salem, NC, by Western Electric. It had crystal clear audio and a loud-as-hell bell.

We have come a LONG way in 100 years of technological evolution. Now if the human race could catch up...

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

What a beautiful shot. I could have been take in my grandpa's office back in the 50s

JeffDavidson Loc: Originally Detroit Now Los Angeles

I like the shot, lighting, interest, however, the light blue is too much, too bright and is distracting.

trackmag

I have been in in the publishing busuiness for more than 60 years. While I have several old cameras and a couple of the old typewriters, I wish I had kept some sample of the computers, etc. I grew up as a Linotype operator . . . would love to have one of those also.

Thanks for the shots. Seven years ago, I had the honor of being elected to the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame. Since 1971 I have been writing stories and shooting photos about this business. When they asked for something to put in a display in their museum I sent an old Nikon film camera and an Underwood similar to the one pictured here. I wish I could have sent a Linotype. I composed my first story on it. Alas, the display case in the Amarillo hotel would not hold it.

Pixelmaster Loc: New England

Trackmag:

I had a good friend who was a Linotype operator and knew he was good with lead and tin in those days.
When I first saw what computers could do with zero's and one's I knew that even photo type setting was
going to be a thing of the past. And now the newspapers are a shadow of what they once were.