No, no it isn’t.
Simple demonstration of an extremely rare 1953 music typewriter
Daring and effective!
I call this the create a new problem technique
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I love my Kia EV6, but love the company more after seeing this.
What ABBA never mentioned is that Dancing Queen is really a figurehead position. All the real power is in the hands of Dancing Parliament.
Behold my husband's latest hyperfixation:
Manual typewriters
Okay, technically the one at the bottom right is an adding machine, but the rest are typewriters. And this isn't even all of them.
The oldest we have is hard to pinpoint, as he hasn't been able to date the ones on the lowest left shelf yet. But so far the oldest are the Underwoods (middle left shelf) which are both from 1928.
He used to collect old bikes (like from the 30s and 40s) and those were space hogs, expensive, and a bitch to work on. These are at least smaller, a lot cheaper, much easier to clean and restore, and are more useful.
My personal favorites are the larger Underwood and the blue Royal right above it on the left.
We're a normalcy deprived family.
Edit:
Oh, he just sent me a breakdown of them:
Cathy O'Donnell working on her poetry in her room at LaQuinta
Martha Holmes, Life, Dec 1945
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