Rob,

Yes a long road trip with some over-night stays to get to next year's type-in at Bremerton WA could also be combined with visiting the 3-4 typewriter shops in Portland OR on my way home.

I have placed a schedule reminder on my PC for next early spring...to keep an eye out for the Type-In announcements.
 

robmck wrote:

I've been meaning to do a typewriter safari in Portland but haven't gotten around to it yet. 

Typewriter hunts - particularly with someone who is equally keen about finding such treasures - is a lot of fun. About seven years ago I went with a friend on a full-day sweep of a region two hours to the west and had a real blast. We combed local ads and antique shops, and came back without any room left in his car. I think we bought a dozen or so machines between us, many of them standards, which is why we ran out of room. We still go out hunting together a few times a year, but it's just to our local antique markets where the competition is stiff and the prices typically higher than we're willing to pay.


 

I found myself going to lots of local thrift shops here in Idaho.

Never came home with a decent typewriter (at a decent price) but vintage sewing machines from the 1950-60's kept following me home.

We now have 10 of them and they all work & got serviced by us and my wife loves to sew.  Her sewing/hobby room can hold no more.
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