For those who know me, it’s no secret that I enjoy perusing the classifieds for yard or estate sales. But, a recent online visit to the local Craigslist site led to the purchase of a manual typewriter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was a pandemic distraction from lockdowns and languishing. I had somehow convinced myself I needed a typewriter. Locating one ...

For many years now I have used a computer keyboard to do most of the writing I do and, though the computer does the obligatory job, I still use, and much prefer, a typewriter. It is on that machine — ...

If you live with a teenager, you may find retro products making a comeback in your household. Polaroid instant cameras, vinyl records with their players, and typewriters relegated to grandma’s attic ...

I had no intention of becoming a typewriter collector. None. Yes I wanted one, but collecting them? That’s crazy. The portable models are 10-15 pounds, desktops over 30—who collects something like ...

It was as if my first typewriter, stashed away on a shelf in the corner of my garage in Connecticut, was pleading, “I’m your holiday column! Write about me.” That typewriter, an Underwood, early 1900s ...