Est. 1953 - Sample site
The typewriter shop at the end of the street.
Machines with ink in their veins. Scroll, and this one will tell you itself.
Feed
Paper in.
A fresh sheet rolls under the platen. Every letter starts this way.
The letter
It types.
Thirty-six keys, one basket of hammers. Watch the carriage walk left as the line grows.
Return
Bell, sweep, next line.
The bell at the margin is the same one above the shop door.
Signed
Yours, in ink.
No battery. No updates. A machine that means it.
Scroll to feed the paper
The letter
The shop keeps three benches.
01
Restoration
Stripped to the frame, cleaned segment by segment, timed on the bench until the touch is even. Turnaround is weeks, not months.
02
Ribbons & parts
Inked fresh and spooled by hand. Black, black-and-red, and the occasional purple for letters that need it.
03
Machines for sale
Portables, desktops, one stubborn standard. Each leaves typing, with a fresh ribbon and a page of its own work.
Hours Tue-Sat 10-6Bell above the door Still worksFirst ribbon On the house