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Suddenly, it’s 1967!

August 2, 2019 L.T. Hanlon7 Comments

Photo of a beautiful SCM Smith-Corona Galaxie Deluxe typewriter manufactured in 1967. The machine's exterior is painted in colors associated with the era. In this case, a greenish-blue color called seafoam green complemented by creamy beige accents.

Photo of a typewritten page that contains the following text. Suddenly, it's 1967! I'm not often overwhelmed by an impulse purchase, but my acquisition of this SCM Smith—Corona Galaxie Deluxe has me hungering for a big bowl of Whip'n Chill. This typewriter is amazingly mint — and mint-colored too, even down to its seafoam green platen rubber. I had never considered buying one of these SCM's until trying one out at the American Writers Museum in Chicago earlier this year. Until then, I had dismissed 1960s-era Smith-Coronas as occupying the same ecological niche as AMP-era Harley-Davidsons. But that all changed when I put one of these Galaxies through its paces at the museum. The keys were snappy, the touch secure, and the machine made a reassuringly solid machine sound. Clearly. I'd misjudged these Smith—Coronas. Despite being more than a half—century old, this Galaxie Deluxe responded lovingly to my touch and laid down nice, dark letters. And it likes calling attention to itself in red too! In terms of fit and finish, my new mechanical companion does sport more than a little plastic, but the plastic is of high quality, the sort of plastic that's engineered to play rough and look nice. One feature of this mid—1960s typewriter is something I've never seen before: a typeslug and corresponding key that can be replaced. On my machine, that switcheroo feature is a numeral

 

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