Showing posts with label ramblings. Show all posts
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29 May 2015

It's been a while


Sent from my Torpedo 18b

From the 1930s to the 1970s, the road map market was dominated by maps given out for free by gas stations and state/provincial governments. I've always preferred the officially released government maps, partly due to the fact that while oil companies produced an identical series of maps for each area covered with cartography by the same company, each state and province created its own maps and cartographic styles are much more varied.

For your enjoyment, here are some of my favorite official state/provincial road maps that I've gotten this year, in chronological order.















24 Oct 2014

Rotary phones and online typewriter buying guides






This was my Torpedo (Harrods) 17. The shadows quiz game would contain both very common and less common models, hopefully making it a challenging game that still gives some satisfaction!

The phone even came to me from Michigan! 

Here's where I found:

Sent from my Everest Jolson

27 Jul 2014

Kolik jazyků znáš, tolikrát jsi člověkem.

1929 Underwood Standard Portable 4B222405



*and also so-called dead keys










On inspection, the keyboard appears to have been modified after production (and quite thoroughly too because 6 typeslugs and keypapers had to be changed from the standard layout). This probably explains the oddities of the special characters not always matching up!

Sent from my new Underwood Standard Portable