In 1964, Edward Skibba started Ace Machines, a typewriter / business machine shop that sells and repairs typewriters, copiers, printers and more. After 50 years in business, Ace continues to thrive in ...

A candy apple red Olivetti manual typewriter, circa 1960s — its keys white like the stripe splashed across the Corvette convertible of the same shade and era — draws you into Kensington Office ...

During more than 40 years of selling and repairing typewriters and adding machines, Vernon Trampe has gathered a mountain of the nearly extinct machines. Only narrow passages remain between shelves ...

Many years ago — a sakh yorn tzurik, as we say in Yiddish — when I had little money and was still an unpublished writer, I moved to a street in Manhattan with many used bookstores. It was a safe ...

For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter — or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric — are but memories, if we’ve heard them at all. But at the few remaining typewriter repair shops ...

"I'm absolutely a dinosaur," the Crown Point man said. As far as he and any of his customers know, he's the only typewriter repairman left in Northwest Indiana. The Chicago native runs Crown Point ...

When he goes to work for the last time next week, many of Dennis Nachtweih’s old friends will be there — the Royals, the Underwoods, the Remingtons. The antique typewriters decorate the walls at ...