#TIL Smith-Corona Marchant (aka SCM) not only made typewriters, but they also manufactured index cards! They apparently had an office supplies group in Marion, Indiana.
I can’t wait to take some of these for a spin in my Sears Cutlass.
Quoted by Mademoiselle, the French Teacher (Heaven Can Wait (20th Century Fox, 1943))
Did you ever consider not marrying girl?
Écoute, mon chérie. In your papa's time, papa kiss mama and they marry.
But this is 1886, time of bicycle, the typewriter is arrive. Soon everybody speak over the telephone and people have new idea of value of kiss.
What is bad yesterday is a lot of fun today.
From 1957, the year the Dodgers announced their move to Los Angeles, I’ve got my Dodger Blue Royal FPP typewriter ready to go to score the home opener! Blue ink at the ready, I can already hear a military bomber circling my neighborhood on the way to a flyover of the stadium. ⚾🏟️
My typewritten baseball scorecard for Tampa Bay Rays at Atlanta Braves on 2026-03-24. I’m trying to work out the cobwebs of my scoring technique before opening day Thursday.
I also filled in a card from my #22 Numbers Game scorebook as well. It’s been ages since I tracked pitches. I’m thinking that this would be a good reason to pull out the old 0.3mm multipen for the next game.
I’m really hoping this book Index to Murder is a gift of thoughtfulness and not some perverse, veiled threat.
Opening day of baseball is coming. ⚾ I’m finishing the adjustments and final coats of polish to my 1957 Royal FP standard typewriter in Dodger Blue. It was manufactured the same year that the Brooklyn Dodgers announced their move to Los Angeles, so it will be a fantastic machine to score the 68th Los Angeles home opener on March 26th.
The first session will be on Saturday, March 14, 2026, and will recur weekly from 8:00 AM – 10:00 Pacific. Our meetings are welcoming and casual conversations over Zoom with the optional beverage of your choice. We’ll cover chapters 1-4 in Part I in the first meeting.
To join and get access to the Zoom links and the shared Obsidian vault we use for notes and community communication, ping Dan Allosso with your email address.
“Dogs’ lives don’t have to have meaning.” Inspire memories of witty Snoopy sayings and bring classic comic scenes to life with LEGO® Ideas Peanuts: Snoopy’s Doghouse (21368). This model building kit for adults features a posable Snoopy figure which comes with 2 alternative leg builds for sitting and standing and 2 neck positions for lying down and standing. Display him lying on top of his house with his friend Woodstock on his belly, sitting up typing on his LEGO typewriter or in standing poses. The interior walls of the doghouse can be folded out to create a starry night sky, the perfect backdrop for Snoopy and Woodstock to ’toast’ marshmallows on the campfire A delightful gift for Peanuts comic lovers and Snoopy merch collectors, the set offers a fun way to create your own nostalgic home decor. And you can enjoy enhanced building with the LEGO® Builder app, zooming and rotating with 3D instructions, while saving and tracking progress. Set contains 964 pieces.
My birthday is in July, just after this new LEGO set is released…
The first session will be on Saturday, February 21, 2026, and will recur weekly from 8:00 AM – 10:00 Pacific. Our meetings are welcoming and casual conversations over Zoom with the optional beverage of your choice. We’ll cover the first two parts in the first meeting.
To join and get access to the Zoom links and the shared Obsidian vault we use for notes and community communication, ping Dan Allosso with your email address.
Happy reading!
My website has been hobbling along for about two weeks now. Sadly I’ve either been away or too under the weather to clean things up. Hopefully a bit of work this morning has improved things. We’ll see how stable things are going forward.
Acquired via thrift on 2026-02-06. This machine continues my typewriter collection theme for 2026: hunting for great machines with less common typefaces. Gothic was an older word meaning san-serif. The “double” portion means that it’s two sets of capital letter forms.
(Sorry James…)
The white correction tape message typed (assuredly not by me!!) onto the platen was a sure sign this thrifted typewriter was destined for my collection.
After my note earlier about progress on restoring my 1936 Royal KHM typewriter, a colleague reminded me that a KHM makes an appearance in the Taylor Swift song Fortnight. Then they asked if I was just collecting machines from her videos? While I fully expect to pick up a Royal Ten one day, it’s a total coincidence. She’s obviously got great taste in vintage typing machines.
Joe Van Cleave from Youtube
