We love the grand look and solid feel of the manual typewriter. The Model 12 was one of the early 1900s models, which evolved from the sewing machine foot-pedal-carriage-return versions of the ...

"We old typists, it makes us feel young again to think there's a new generation catching on," said author Gay Talese, 79, who still uses a typewriter, albeit electric.

A few years ago, the 36-year-old St. Catherine University student happened to see a beautiful 1938 Corona Standard typewriter on Craigslist for sale for $20.

Two years ago, working in the shared workspace at Philadelphia’s Hive76, 27-year-old Jack Zylkin turned a manual typewriter that he found on the side of the road into a keyboard for computers ...

He reminded me that most old typewriters aren’t super valuable, unless you have a rare model. “Royal, at one time, was making a typewriter every minute," Read said.

To clean and restore old typewriters, Jackson charges $75 to $100, and an additional $25 an hour if the job’s complicated. The most expensive typewriter he restored and sold for $535 is a 1952 ...

More: Tom Hanks makes dreams come true for fellow manual typewriter enthusiast in Goodlettsville I considered it a sign from the typewriter gods. I took my old 88 to Jackson's shop and had him ...

Store owner Matt Snyder works on a manual typewriter at New England Typewriter in Merrimack on Saturday, November 16, 2024. Snyder opened it to sell and service devices that are decades old.

The typewriter lives on in IndiaReporting from New Delhi — It’s a stultifying afternoon outside the Delhi District Court as Arun Yadav slides a sheet of paper into his decades-old Remington ...

J.C. Loftis, a Houston attorney, who dropped by on a recent morning to pick up a typewriter, said the shop has been that way for the 30 years he's been coming there for repairs on his Selectric III.