Celebrating National Typewriter Day by cleaning up a 1955 Royal Quiet De Luxe. Happy Typewriter Day to everyone who celebrates!
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@chrisaldrich Cool! (I had a 1949? Royal Portable for years! Wrote many, many pages on it.)
@the If it looked like this one it was probably either a 1949 or 1950 and either a QDL as pictured or possibly an Arrow (if it didn’t have tab functionality). I suspect that the all light gray/chrome model was the same one that Vladimir Nabokov and his wife Vera had for much of their work and which Carl Mydans photographed them with in 1958.
@the Oops! I wasn’t watching the context and presumed you had made your comment on this post from a few days back which pictured an earlier 1948 Royal portable and it’s younger brother, a 1949 Quiet De Luxe designed by Henry Dreyfuss. It was the later 1949 version in light gray with chrome which I referenced with respect to Nabokov.
@chrisaldrich Coincidentally that's my project for today on a 1948 Quiet De Luxe #typewriter
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I love Henry Dreyfuss' design work and recently got a 1948 to pair with my 1949. I'm smitten with the tombstone glass keys on these. I'm hoping to get to cleaning up the 1948 sometime later this week.
https://boffosocko.com/2024/06/21/henry-dreyfuss-royal-quiet-de-luxe-typewriter-showdown/
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@chrisaldrich typewriters used to really stress me out. I had a kind of “PTSD” from typing class, where I was so bad at it. But because of that pressure, I can touch type without looking at the keyboard, and my career has benefitted from that. I think I would like to type on a typewriter. This is random, but I found this interesting: http://www.thenewsminute.com/telangana...
@chrisaldrich I’m starting to wonder what happened to it. I don’t have any pictures of it. (Once I got my Mac & Imagewriter, the faithful Royal got pushed into a cupboard.)
@the I took me a trip across country and some digging to find my old Smith-Corona Clipper at my parents’ house. I’m glad they kept it. Hopefully yours will pop up soon.