Tracking my typewriter’s travels

May 14, 2019May 14, 2019 L.T. Hanlon3 Comments

Current photo of a block of storefronts including 1164 Stuyvesant Avenue in Irvington, New Jersey. Allied Business Machines once operated at 1164. Today a restaurant specializing in Creole and American food is there. Below this image is a closeup of a sticker applied to a typewriter. It reads Allied Business Machines, 1164 Stuyvesant Ave., Irvington, NJ. 372-7567.

Current photo of a block of storefronts including 301 South Avenue West in Westfield, New Jersey. Allied Business Machines once operated at the corner space. Today a restaurant specializing in Cuban cuisine is there. Below this image is a closeup of a sticker applied to a typewriter. It reads Allied Business Machines Inc., 301 South Ave. West, Westfield, N.J. Phone 233-0811.

Aerial photo of Chicago's John Hancock Center, a 100-story building with X-shaped braces on the outside. I live on the 54th Floor.

3 thoughts on “Tracking my typewriter’s travels”

mcfeats says:

May 14, 2019 at 6:55 pm

I dig how much you dig that Hermes. It plants some clean letters on that page. I’ll have to take mine our for a spin.

LikeLike

Reply
joevc says:

May 14, 2019 at 9:04 pm

The past lives of typewriters stands in stark contrast to their stoic silence, until you quietly sit at their keys and listen, and sometimes you hear them speak.

LikeLike

Reply
- L.T. Hanlon says:
  
  May 15, 2019 at 9:36 am
  
  I do wonder about the words that typewriters have conveyed. Words of love, words of anger, and the words of careless compositions.
  
  LikeLike
  
  Reply