This 1908 Underwood, had a odd looking lever. Turned out to be a backspacer. Which is why several years ago I had to have it.
Any excuse will do to own an Underwood 5…
Tag: Underwood
A low key day on an all cap typewriter
My Underwood has its Western Union serial number WU5739R and I checked the number under the foot is 205320. I guessed 1909 based on design, but the serial number places it at 1908. For me 1908 is a great year for an Underwood.
At 60 I look forward to the next 40…
After reflecting over the past 40 years on a 109 year old typewriter. I feel I will be a much better person at 40 years from now (age 100). At 109 I may make the transition to mellow…
As one… we rise and fall…
There are reason’s life vests were invented. Not everyone can swim. Life is like that.
At a typewriter… you can type the world
You can go to Mars… climb any mountain… meet anyone every born. Just sit down at a keyboard and type it and it will be so!
It took Republicans to overcome Democrates who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
It could have been 1967 or 8 when our family took a trip to Washington D.C.; we stopped at the office of a Conservative republican Senator Everest McKinley Dirksen… I was not that interested (I wanted to see the Lincoln Memorial); I could not understand why we needed to travel from Illinois to D.C. in the hopes of seeing someone from Illinois… Now 48 years later I understand!
For a better mood type on an Underwood (1908)
The words look good to me… not that they say that much. I just like looking at the words on paper placed there by a 108 year old typewriter (even with a cracked frame). Serial #220078
Creating new memories… my visit to Monument Valley
At the Monument Valley Tribal Park, you can stay at the View (with great views) and eat at the restaurant (Navajo music plays in the background). You will leave with wonderful memories of a lifetime.
Second and third thoughts of the moment….
Sometimes I can look over events with a fresh perspective and come to the same conclusion.
1903 – 2016 What my Underwood might have typed!
I imagine someone 113 years ago using my Underwood 4 to write a friend that the Wright Brother’s flew a plane. Events of World War I and II would have be pressed on paper. Man landing on the moon to the first Black President of the United States. So much could have been typed and one thinks how much more will be…
