My New Baby...

[Traci Reed]

On a whim, we stopped at a Goodwill tonight after Hobby Lobby and I found a typewriter on the shelf! I messed around with it and was pretty sure it worked...it wasn't electric so I knew it was super old. It was only $15 so I figured, what the heck, if it doesn't work, it'll make a good decoration. (after we paint it, it's ugly as sin.)

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/408503_10151246135682424_134746908_n.jpg

BUT I brought it home and put a journaling card in it and it WORKS! (mostly...LOL)

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/537336_10151245984047424_833194650_n.jpg

I'm SO excited! I googled it and it was made in 1939! I've been wanting a vintage typewriter for a while :wub:

[Trista]

That is an amazing find Traci. I am so jelly!
Love that you have put it to use already! ;)

[krystalhartley]

love love love love love

[KristinCB]

well the keys are fab! don't change those!

[Traci Reed]

I won't! I want to paint her like a minty vintage green to play off the keys..

[origami]

Um, I learned how to type on a typewriter. (It was electric, but it was still a typewriter.) I don't remember the numbers being any different than on a computer keyboard. LOL! Great find!

[yari]

Wow that is a fantastic find Traci!!! yay!!!!

[kelley]

That is amazing!! My goodwill never has anything awesome, or maybe I just need to go more often!

[kristijoy]

Um, I learned how to type on a typewriter. (It was electric, but it was still a typewriter.) I don't remember the numbers being any different than on a computer keyboard. LOL! Great find!

Going to show my age....I learned on a manual typewriter! I think the next year they got the electrics!!!

Awesome find!

[ripal]

I learned typing on manual typewriter too!

Great find!

[KateD]

Great find! That's really strange about the numbers.

My father still has the typewriter he bought and used in college. I recently told him that if he ever wants to get rid of it, that I'd love to have it. I think he thought I was crazy :p

[*Celeste*]

i'd paint it pink with the green keys! with all those boys in your house you need more pink!

[webseitler]

That is so cool! I really want to find a working one, too. It doesn't have to look good. LOL! I really want it for my scrapping. :)

I use my sewing machine for scrapping... And I want a big, ol' typewriter... My scrapping obsessions involve rather large machinery. LOL!

[Darcy Baldwin]

how cool!!

[carrie1977]

That is beyond cool!

[mrshobbes]

Hahaha, I learned how to type on a Remington myself. I remember our classroom had really old Underwood typewriters that seriously looked like they were carved from rock. That is such a cool find, Traci! I can't wait to see its yummy new color!

[AmberK]

thats way cool Traci!

[mariewilcox]

Going to show my age....I learned on a manual typewriter! I think the next year they got the electrics!!!

Awesome find!

Hahaha! Me too Kristy! We had a manual at home and at school the typing room had all manuals. I did get an electric one to take with me to college though.

[Penny Springmann]

Awesome!!! Just conserve that ribbon!!! :)

[MamaBee]

Going to show my age....I learned on a manual typewriter! I think the next year they got the electrics!!!

Awesome find!

*cough* me, too... at least by the time we got to Advance typing, we got the wordpressor ones where you typed in the first line and once you hit return is when it would type... I can still hear the timed test.... silence and then click, click, click... haha! :D

Traci - that is awesome!! I have an old one from my grandpa... but it needs a new ribbon, now where the heck do you find that? haha

[JuliaM]

I remember all too well learning how to type on a manual typewriter. A's, q's, z's, w's, s's, and x's would barely show up 'cause I could never hit those keys hard enough.

This might help with the dilemna of where to find ribbons - http://www.discountprinterribbons.com/vimaretyri.html

[purple_colourz]

What a great find!

[jessica31876]

had one growing up that looked a lot like that which was my grandpa's. Great find :)

[jessica31876]

as for the numbers it looks like your shift key is stuck. Ar least that is what I think it is called LOL. I remeber vaguely that one you could push down and it would give you capitals/the symbols on the numbers. Then one would lock and it would lock on caitals / symbols until you unlock it

[LJSDesigns]

So cool and now I want one!

[k23m]

super cool!! make sure you show us after you give her a facelift!

[Traci Reed]

I would paint her pink but the keys are a dark forest green and that just won't be yummy at all LOL

I'm thinking a mint green with a bit of teal undertone.

I'm trying to figure out the numbers, there will be googling to do I think :)

The ribbons are actually still pretty cheap only $12 online :)

[Traci Reed]

Thanks everyone!

[alinalove]

wow! since you used only the caps on your sample, it may be that you are on caps lock :-)
try unlocking the thing on the left.

[alinalove]

ehm. it's not only on the left. you have that on both sides. usually these girls have a type of shift key and an additional one that keeps the shift down (caps lock). i see that on yours.

[origami]

Hahaha! Me too Kristy! We had a manual at home and at school the typing room had all manuals. I did get an electric one to take with me to college though.

I vaguely remember a 1970s era manual at home that I wrote my papers for school on. We had electric typewriters in the labs at school, along with those 10 key machines. I took an electric typewriter to college but bought an Apple 2e before I graduated and definitely remember Macs in the computer labs by my senior year. I also remember rotary phones! LOL!

[Traci Reed]

there are no lowercase letters. It's a very old typewriter, before there were both :)

[alinalove]

there are no lowercase letters. It's a very old typewriter, before there were both :)

that may be the case but still you have a shift and caps lock for the numbers and other signs on those keys.
try pressing on the upper keys left and right. when they release you might be able to use the numbers.
as far as i see in your pictures they are pressed down together with the shift keys.

[Traci Reed]

Yeah, I've tried all that :( either they're perma-stuck or I'm not 1939-smart enough to figure it out haha

[alinalove]

wd 40 does it ;-)
but even using the letters only is cool.

[Traci Reed]

:wub: