Paging Hildy Johnson and Walter Burns!

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13909 Antiques, certainly, has a piece that could have been used in the classic movie 'His Girl Friday' ...

Antique Royal Typewriter

This piece is in working condition (it could use a new ribbon, and a professional cleaning wouldn't hurt it) and, customers coming into the shop have been gravitating to it, oggling it (and, it may be featured in an upcoming musical production - 13909 Antiques allowed a composer to record it's sounds for an organic composition he is writing, using ambient sounds)

It's from somewhere between 1908 and 1915, based on other Royal Typewriters of that era - ours has glass panels on the sides

Typewriters are making a comeback.

A few years ago, NPR featured a story, in which they interviewed the person here in Arlington, who has a Typewriter store, and another in New Orleans. It was said that young people are turning to old (and new) typewriters as an "Anti-iPod Statement" 

A recent customer relayed to me, a recent high-school graduate, for her graduation gift, wanted (and received) a portable typewriter.

It's here, and it's available ...