Tag: blue typewriter ribbon

Typewritten index card sitting in the carriage of an Olympia that reads: I stayed up half the night watching election returns and swapping out all the ribbon in my typewriter collection to blue ink. It only seems fitting for the change I hope to see in the coming months.   Thank goodness I had 660 yards on hand!  If you're in the Los Angeles area and want to follow suit, let me know.

I stayed up half the night watching election returns and swapping out all the ribbon in my typewriter collection to blue ink. It only seems fitting for the change I hope to see in the coming months.  

Thank goodness I had 660 yards on hand!  If you’re in the Los Angeles area and want to follow suit, let me know.

An opened corrugated cardboard package with a large almost 12 inch diameter reel of typewriter ribbon wrapped in a plastic bag. The reel sits next to two tiny 2 inch diameter plastic spools and a pair of scissors for scale. Behind the reel of ribbon is a green crinkle painted 1958 Olympia SM3 with green keys. The reel appears that it is even larger in base surface area than the typewriter is.