Comments on: 52 Photos Project – Gallery 25 – Still Life

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:44:27 +0000

Thank you

By: chuck-ct

chuck-ct — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:14:17 +0000

love the subject matter. love the photo.

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:56:53 +0000

Thanks Ms. Becky, I enjoyed playing around with this image. I hope you had a happy day too.

By: Ms. Becky

Ms. Becky — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:15:14 +0000

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

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 15:47:33 +0000

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.

By: Claude

Claude — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 07:00:41 +0000

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!

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:54:46 +0000

Ah yes, I had forgotten about those black and green screens… You have brought back even more memories for me!

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:53:16 +0000

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.

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:45:37 +0000

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

By: London Caller

London Caller — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:41:01 +0000

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

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