My New Baby...

Traci Reed

Traci Reed

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On a whim, we stopped at a Goodwill tonight after Hobby Lobby and I found a typewriter on the shelf! I messed around with it and was pretty sure it worked...it wasn't electric so I knew it was super old. It was only $15 so I figured, what the heck, if it doesn't work, it'll make a good decoration. (after we paint it, it's ugly as sin.)

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BUT I brought it home and put a journaling card in it and it WORKS! (mostly...LOL)

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I'm SO excited! I googled it and it was made in 1939! I've been wanting a vintage typewriter for a while :wub:
 
Um, I learned how to type on a typewriter. (It was electric, but it was still a typewriter.) I don't remember the numbers being any different than on a computer keyboard. LOL! Great find!
 
That is amazing!! My goodwill never has anything awesome, or maybe I just need to go more often!
 
origami said:
Um, I learned how to type on a typewriter. (It was electric, but it was still a typewriter.) I don't remember the numbers being any different than on a computer keyboard. LOL! Great find!
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Going to show my age....I learned on a manual typewriter! I think the next year they got the electrics!!!

Awesome find!
 
Great find! That's really strange about the numbers.

My father still has the typewriter he bought and used in college. I recently told him that if he ever wants to get rid of it, that I'd love to have it. I think he thought I was crazy :p
 
That is so cool! I really want to find a working one, too. It doesn't have to look good. LOL! I really want it for my scrapping. :)

I use my sewing machine for scrapping... And I want a big, ol' typewriter... My scrapping obsessions involve rather large machinery. LOL!
 
Hahaha, I learned how to type on a Remington myself. I remember our classroom had really old Underwood typewriters that seriously looked like they were carved from rock. That is such a cool find, Traci! I can't wait to see its yummy new color!
 
kristijoy said:
Going to show my age....I learned on a manual typewriter! I think the next year they got the electrics!!!

Awesome find!
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Hahaha! Me too Kristy! We had a manual at home and at school the typing room had all manuals. I did get an electric one to take with me to college though.
 
kristijoy said:
Going to show my age....I learned on a manual typewriter! I think the next year they got the electrics!!!

Awesome find!
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*cough* me, too... at least by the time we got to Advance typing, we got the wordpressor ones where you typed in the first line and once you hit return is when it would type... I can still hear the timed test.... silence and then click, click, click... haha! :D

Traci - that is awesome!! I have an old one from my grandpa... but it needs a new ribbon, now where the heck do you find that? haha
 
as for the numbers it looks like your shift key is stuck. Ar least that is what I think it is called LOL. I remeber vaguely that one you could push down and it would give you capitals/the symbols on the numbers. Then one would lock and it would lock on caitals / symbols until you unlock it
 
I would paint her pink but the keys are a dark forest green and that just won't be yummy at all LOL

I'm thinking a mint green with a bit of teal undertone.

I'm trying to figure out the numbers, there will be googling to do I think :)

The ribbons are actually still pretty cheap only $12 online :)
 
wow! since you used only the caps on your sample, it may be that you are on caps lock :-)
try unlocking the thing on the left.
 
ehm. it's not only on the left. you have that on both sides. usually these girls have a type of shift key and an additional one that keeps the shift down (caps lock). i see that on yours.
 
mariewilcox said:
Hahaha! Me too Kristy! We had a manual at home and at school the typing room had all manuals. I did get an electric one to take with me to college though.
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I vaguely remember a 1970s era manual at home that I wrote my papers for school on. We had electric typewriters in the labs at school, along with those 10 key machines. I took an electric typewriter to college but bought an Apple 2e before I graduated and definitely remember Macs in the computer labs by my senior year. I also remember rotary phones! LOL!
 
Traci Reed said:
there are no lowercase letters. It's a very old typewriter, before there were both :)
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that may be the case but still you have a shift and caps lock for the numbers and other signs on those keys.
try pressing on the upper keys left and right. when they release you might be able to use the numbers.
as far as i see in your pictures they are pressed down together with the shift keys.
 
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