Boston’s Last Typewriter Store Closing
Sunday, January 19, 2025
The last typewriter repair shop in Boston shuts its door.
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Typewriter City Streets Art Project
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Here’s a wonderful public art project from Everett, Washington, that brings vintage manual typewriters out of collectors’ homes and onto the streets. This was from eleven years ago, but the ideas are fresh. “Word on the Street” placed ten manual typewriters at locations around downtown Everett during the summer. Each typewriter table was custom painted by local artists celebrating literary themes—Maya Angelou, favorite books, childhood fairy tales. Passersby were invited to sit down and type responses to daily questions posed by the city’s librarians. It’s a brilliant way to introduce a new generation to the tactile pleasure of hitting keys and hearing that bell ring when you reach the end of a line. Some responses were displayed in storefront windows; others shared on social media. This is what happens when a community values both the literary arts and hands-on creative expression.
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I missed it, so thanks to Gregory the Poor Typist of Type Pals fame for visiting the Grand Opening of Typewriter Muse. The world’s greatest typewriter mechanic, Bob Marshall, has opened up an amazing typewriter showroom and repair shop and typewriter event center in Riverside, California. I can’t wait to visit.
Yesterday I went for a walk for the first time with my new toy camera and discovered that the Charmera takes somewhat decent video in the sense that it achieves a low-res aesthetic. The pictures are okay if you frame it right with decent light. I snapped this at Starbucks while waiting for a cup […]
I recently got my hands on the KODAK Charmera, and honestly, it’s the most “fun” I’ve had with a camera in a long time. It’s a tiny digital keychain camera inspired by the 1987 Kodak Fling (the world’s first single-use camera), and it really leans into that “point-and-shoot” simplicity. Part of the charm is the […]
Here I am back when I thought it worth recording myself typing. The only camera I had was a Flip Video—compact, unpretentious, and in 2009 just modern enough to shoot HD. It no longer works. I find I miss it.
Setting goals is a great way to get things done, but sometimes the point isn’t efficiency or even explanation — it’s endurance. Case in point: Les Stewart, an Australian man who decided to manually type out every number from one to one million on a typewriter. In words. One finger. Over sixteen years. He started […]
An 8mm home movie from Virginia 1958, featuring my extended family, especially my twin brother and me.
Jeremy Skillings, a local entrepreneur and CEO of Hemptation USA, is leading the effort to rescue the inventory. Skillings is cataloging the items and moving them into storage to ensure they find “good homes” rather than ending up in a dumpster.
posted Dec 25, 2025 by Tom Fasano Merry Christmas to all!
Chapter One This is an audio rendition of the first chapter of Venice Beach Psalms—the first book in my planned Peter Blair Mystery series. The video mimics a typewriter effect synchronized with the voice-over. You can purchase a copy and support my creative efforts at Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
Here’s a wonderful public art project from Everett, Washington, that brings vintage manual typewriters out of collectors’ homes and onto the streets. This was from eleven years ago, but the ideas are fresh. “Word on the Street” placed ten manual typewriters at locations around downtown Everett during the summer. Each typewriter table was custom painted […]
