I started typing on one of these; around 1962, inside commercial-class at high school. We started with a red 'bib' our Mums had to make. Basically it was a square of red material with a tie at each corner. Two looped onto the typewriter somehow, and then the 'bib' ties went around behind your neck, supporting a red 'tent roof' above the keyboard. I doubt very much that this routine is followed today anywhere.
To the real essence of this post; I was reminded today to make a special post with some of the unique characters inside of
Brunos Gallery, Marysville, Victoria. I've shared many outdoor photos recently, but this time, is some from indoors.
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what a great shadow under that typewriter - that's my favourite..
A lot of kids these days can't even type decently on a computer keyboard. They just hunt and peck. Maybe it's time to bring back the red bib!
SHADOW, SHADOW
Shadow, shadow, if I could,
I would meet you in the wood,
Where the frenzied fairies play
In the blazing light of day.
But, dear shadow, I dare not
Go to that secluded spot,
For I fear the woodland path
And what’s more, the fairies’ wrath!
© 2011 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Frosty Shadows Haiku
so, was the bib to keep you from being able to see the keys?
I remember typewriters like that, but only because my mother had one, and used it for many years. Makes me think of the Archie and Mehitabel poems - must go look them up - Archie is a cockroach, and he types by diving off the top of the machine onto the keys with his head...
Now those are some "odd" figures but rather interesting.
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