| Olympia with Cursive font 1960s? |
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| This is Jenny, an Olympia I bought on a whim. I do not usually buy anything on whims. I had been curious to see a typewriter with a different font than the normal typewriter letters, and when I saw this gal on Ebay, I thought she was a pretty blue color and noticed the sample font was in cursive. Usually cursive font Olympias are gobbled up on Ebay, but for some reason Jenny went unnoticed. At the last minute I threw in a bid and won her for something like $12. Jenny went with me to Converse. I would drag her over to the library and type letters on her in the soundproof study carrels. The letters looked cool with the cursive font. Jenny types fairly well, considering I haven't even really cleaned her or given her much attention as of yet. The ribbon still worked and everything. I typed letters on this typewriter to my friend Jenny that I met on the computer, so that is who she gets her name after. The typewriter also reminded me of the movie Finding Forrester, which was another of the two flicks that got me into typewriters. I think the machines in the movie are Underwoods, but they were from the same era and had the same body shape. I hear Sean Connery's impatient voice exclaiming, exasperated, "POUND the keys, for God's sake!!!" |
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