InventorySample outdoors, pick up curbside, or ask us to ship or deliver – warrantied manual and electric typewriters.
Heather Drew took a moment recently, awaiting a performance in our shop of Germantown Friends School’s a capella choir. GFS is one of a number of area schools that uses typewriters in their curricula and for free-range typing in the halls and libraries. W.P.M. hosts book launches, theater, concerts and parties in its space. We also showcase vintage desks, chairs, lamps and writing ephemera. New in 2022: You can now rent or rent-to-own! |
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Sampling of Our Typewriters
We offer a one year warranty – after all, these typewriters have already survived for 40-100 years. We do a good job. We stand behind it. Don’t drop it, and we’ll all be happy.
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1966 RoyaliteManufactured the same year that Milton Glaser produced his iconic poster of Bob Dylan (with that serpentine, multi-colored hair), the Mustang rolled out of Detroit, and the movie Blow Up hit the silver screen. This typewriter had design in mind--popular, slim, chic and reliable. Made with cast aluminum and dimpled keys. The color is emblematic of the period, of course--a smokey sea foam.
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1977 Olympia Traveller de Luxe, portableThis machine harks to 1977 when Americans themselves were learning to go portable. We went to Europe for $5 A Day (the travel book was a top seller). Ambitious college students knew not to tout their typing skills when job seeking, lest they be pigeon-holed. The Apple II debuted, gas sold for 65¢/gallon, President Jimmy Carter pardoned Vietnam War "draft dodgers" and the World Trade Center was completed. We saw Star Wars at the movies, and Roots on TV, Indiana became the 35th and (so far) final State to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Marjorie Wyngaarden and other NOW activists won a three-year battle with AT&T about dual phone book listings for husbands and wives without an extra charge.
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The word "trim" had a particular meaning in fashion in '77... and describes this typewriter well.
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Self-Correcting IBM Selectric IIThis is the typewriter nonpareil--the last great mechanical invention of America’s industrial age. Remarkably precise, these machines rely on a “golf ball” with 88 character-fonts, easily switched to another golf ball, to change font styles. The ball rotates and pivots very fast to precisely strike a page. No need for a carriage to be shifting. One function here allows for 10 OR 12 pitch (characters per inch). This and similar models here were manufactured 1973-83. Selectrics and their descendants eventually captured 75% of the electric typewriter business market in the U.S. By its 25th anniversary, in 1986, more than 13 million of these machines had been made. Other IBM Selectric models available.
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1937 Remington Rand "Streamline" 5
