1 - Pete E.
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Typewriter Pin-Ups...
From a childhood in the 1950's and 1960's...pin-up calendars hung in most of our Dad's garages, over their work benches.
Found some neat typewriter pin-ups images on-line. Think they are mild enough to post up and are not of the "smutty" variety.
My goal is to capture enough images to make myself a Calendar with the date/day portion changeable each year.
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- Uwe
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Re: Typewriter Pin-Ups...
And then there's the more recent weirdness like Tina Fey with an Olivetti. I don't know what the background of this photo is, but I'm sure there's some sort of explanation for it. If any of our female members (or anyone else for that matter) finds this stuff offensive, please let me know.
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
- M. Höhne
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Re: Typewriter Pin-Ups...
Uwe wrote:
.... snip.... weirdness like Tina Fey with an Olivetti. I don't know what the background of this photo is, .... snip....
She's looking straight at the Art Director and thinking,"Really??"
- IanSB
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Re: Typewriter Pin-Ups...
I wonder how many of us here are sad enough to first try to identify the typewriter ...
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- skywatcher
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Re: Typewriter Pin-Ups...
Hi Ian
Olivetti Lettera 22 rebranded as a Sears Courier,
Sky
We humans go through many computers in our lives, but in their lives, typewriters go through many of us.
In that way, they’re like violins, like ancestral swords. So I use mine with honor and treat them with respect.
I try to leave them in better condition than I met them. I am not their first user, nor will I be their last.
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- Uwe
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Re: Typewriter Pin-Ups...
I wonder how many of us here are sad enough to first try to identify the typewriter ...
Olivetti Lettera 22 rebranded as a Sears Courier,
I was already laughing at Ian's comment, but Sky's reply knocked me right out of my chair - in part because I have no idea if he was being literal or demonstrative. Meanwhile... I think my first thought upon unearthing the photo was "that's no way to treat a typewriter!"
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
- skywatcher
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Re: Typewriter Pin-Ups...
Hi Uwe
I said Courier, not Escort 
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We humans go through many computers in our lives, but in their lives, typewriters go through many of us.
In that way, they’re like violins, like ancestral swords. So I use mine with honor and treat them with respect.
I try to leave them in better condition than I met them. I am not their first user, nor will I be their last.
Frederic S. Durbin. (Typewriter mania and the modern writer)
- Pete E.
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Re: Typewriter Pin-Ups...
A young Barbara Hale of Perry Mason fame.
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Thread Starter- Pete E.
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Advert for Adler Universal machine...
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Thread Starter- thetypewriterman
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Re: Typewriter Pin-Ups...
Actually, it is a first generation Adler Special. Yes, I am sad
