Tom Hanks, the two-time Academy Award-winning actor and cultural icon, recently gifted an autographed 1950s manual typewriter to Philly Typewriter, a preservation and restoration shop in East Passyunk ...

Roswell's Tom Rehkopf owns about 1,000 typewriters, which he tinkers with at his workshop and happily shares with fellow aficionados, curious youngsters and even Tom Hanks.

Your article “Out With the New, In With the Old” (The Chronicle, December 21) fails to mention that the manual typewriter still has several uses that have not passed into obsolescence. A typed check ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - He’s only 42, but handyman Kirk Jackson has always been an old-school guy who loves old stuff. He collects old oil lamps and old coins. He fixes and preserves old furniture and ...

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"It has been so long since I saw my old typewriter that I had given it up for lost. I lent it to my brother in the early 1990s so he could type up his archaeology thesis. I assumed it had gone missing ...

I am drafting this on a manual typewriter. It’s a Royal Arrow from 1950, the same model Ernest Hemingway had in Cuba. I love its glass-topped keys, its serious weight, and its gray square shape. I ...

Tom Furrier greeted a customer walking through the door of Cambridge Typewriter, a tiny shop crammed wall to wall with old typewriters. The customer, Ron Lewis, had brought in a small portable ...