Showing posts with label thrift stores. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thrift stores. Show all posts

8 May 2013

By right, a Triumph

1956 Triumph De Jur 985989







Typed on my new Triumph De Jur / De Jur Triumph


Apologies for the ugly pictures that will grace my blog for a spell. I don't have access to a very good camera any more.

20 Sept 2012

Typewriters in Seattle & Collected Summary of Collecting


These results show, considering they are about 2 years worth of continuous searching, that in the end it doesn't really matter where you look. You will find typewriters worth keeping in just about any venue as long as you keep at it long enough! Perhaps the antique store findings would be much higher if I had allowed myself a limit of, say, $50 instead of $30. But only slightly.

Typed on my Torpedo 18.

And well, actually, it's Lynnwood and Edmonds but Seattle sounds better.

7 Oct 2011

What I Found In A Little Thrift Shop



Typed on my new Adler J2 and Royal Futura 600
I made it in 12 minutes, easy.
Also, I realise I'm in the midst of a real typewriter golden age here.

4 Aug 2011

Weekend & A Disgruntled Psuedo-Architect


This is a more expensive house now.

This a more expensive house in 1918. Notice it has something lacking today--good taste.
(And all those special purpose rooms. People had different expectations then.)

An upper middle range house today.

And an upper middle range in 1920. Again, notice it is tasteful not glamorous and false.

I agree this is very special-interest, and also opinionated. (But it's my opinion and my special interest!)
But if you share at least a mild dislike of McMansions let me know something about it.

Recommendations for number of bathrooms in a middle-class home (no maid or nurse):
2 beds/1 bath -- 3 beds/1 or 1.5 baths -- 4 beds/1.5 or 2 baths -- 5 beds/2 baths

I know this title would work great with a funny story. I'll try for a humorous look at part 2!

Typed on my Royal Aristocrat