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52 Photos Project – Gallery 25 – Still Life

The Way Things Were

More of this weeks theme can be found in the ’still life’ gallery.

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12 Comments CherryPie on Oct 12th 2012

12 Responses to “52 Photos Project – Gallery 25 – Still Life”

  1. Don QuiScottie says:
    October 12, 2012 at 9:59 pm

    Looks a lot like my first typewriter. I can’t believe that I wrote a whole book on a typewriter with no opportunity to edit once committed to the page. A change required a whole page to be retyped, and I’m not that ancient really That was 1983ish. How fast the manipulation of words has changed! Memories flood back: Typerwriter, then Amstrad PCW256 running Locoscript (all of which I found absolutely awesome), then a PC with Word, Word next version, then next, then next, then next, then Ta Ra! Free and wonderful Open Office. I think most of my life just flashed past me again, Thanks for the memories :)

    • CherryPie says:
      October 13, 2012 at 12:45 am

      I would never be able to type that many words without making a mistake!!

      I have never used a traditional typewriter but I did have one of those fancy light key touch ones in the days before computers. I also remember typing things on special paper for use on a Gestetner duplicating machine. I did make mistakes and required a special type of goo to fill in the hole before you could retype, hopefully without another mistake!

      I resisted a computer at home for years and the internet what on earth would I need that for, there is the local library? Now look at me LOL

      Your memories brought back some of my own. Thanks :-)

  2. ....peter:) says:
    October 12, 2012 at 10:58 pm

    I believe that this is not a typewriter at all Cherie… i think that it may have been a typeset machine for printers…. correct me if i am wrong… that happens often:)….peter:)

    • CherryPie says:
      October 13, 2012 at 12:53 am

      This one is definately a typwriter, perhaps I shouldn’t have faded the words of the ad out to the side of the photo. I thought the photo looked better that way :-)

      Here is a link about the Oliver Typewriter Company:

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Typewriter_Company

      This photo is of the No. 1 (first model) of which 5000 were produced between 1894 and 1896. It was completely nickel-plated and had a closed “O” in “Oliver” on name plates.

  3. London Caller says:
    October 13, 2012 at 12:41 am

    This is so nostalgic!
    I still remember those days. ;o)

    Computer screens were black and green in those days too!!!

  4. Claude says:
    October 13, 2012 at 8:00 am

    My first typewriter (in 1967) was a small, portable, fancy, blue one. And it had French accents! Absolutely necessary as I had learned English by immersion and could hardly write that language then. I taught myself how to type, and I took an English Grammar course by correspondence. After 6 months, English words started pouring on the typewriter. And I wrote to the whole world. I wrote to writers (Isaac Asimov, Arthur C.Clarke, André Maurois, John le Carré…), musicians (Leonard Bernstein, Maurice Chevalier, Leonard Cohen…). I wrote to my government, to French newspapers, to American magazines. Many of those people answered my letters. What a life I had! This was before the internet, in the days, when people wrote real letters, in stamped envelopes. I was very reluctant to ever use emails. I still think it’s a great loss. I’ll stop here. Great memories, Cherie! :-)

    • CherryPie says:
      October 13, 2012 at 4:47 pm

      Thank you for sharing your memories :-) I too taught myself to type, but I was never taught grammar and I am still not very good at it.

      How wonderful that you wrote to all those writers, musicians and other people and that they actually replied to you :-)

      I do miss having real letters through my letter box, all I seem to get now is junk mail and bills. But I do like the internet and how it allows connections with people I would never have met otherwise.

  5. Ms. Becky says:
    October 16, 2012 at 2:15 am

    I love the nostalgic feel of this photo. and vintage typewriters too. happy day to you.

  6. chuck-ct says:
    October 18, 2012 at 9:14 pm

    love the subject matter. love the photo.