SF Bay Area type-in report

Mike Clemens (clickthing) brought a classy Underwood De Luxe Quiet Tab:

He also checked out my Twolympia and pronounced it perfect:

It's the legendary Cheryl Lowry of Strikethru!

Cindy (The Cynthia Project) shows Herb her custom-painted Smith-Corona with huge Primary type ...

... AKA The Kandy-Kolored Bubblegum Flake Streamline Baby:

Carolee (superdilettante) is co-author of Good Mail Day and hosts Snail Mail Socials in SF.

Gigi Clark brought several of her wonderful portables. 

She's thinking of starting a blog -- let's hope she does!

Yes, that's Gigi's animal-key Corona with original rings:

Tony (Tony's Vision) drove down from Cool for this cool event: 

Timothy tells us about his typewriter habit:

Anthony describes himself as an analog guy in a digital world:

Christine brought in her purple Remington no. 3 for repair, and said that the type-in was inspiring her to use her machines more:

Anurag of The Typography told us how much his friends in India have enjoyed getting typewritten letters from him:

Poet Silvi Alcivar (The Poetry Store) chats with filmmaker Doug Nichol:

  

Ken takes a look inside Silvi's Royal:

Happy interactions between people, machines, and more people:

Some of the neat typewriters on display:

Here's a wonderful Continental from the Permillions' collection with some kind of Slavic keyboard and a typeface like Royal's Vogue:

 

This Cole Steel is so cool it needs shades:

Gigi's creamy-green techno-type Torpedo:

(Correction: the original sterling Sterling isn't just silver-plated, but its body is solid sterling silver. Here's Alan Seaver's machine.)

Here's what a real typewriter mechanic's workshop looks like. I'm impressed.

Goodies for the typists, on a very appropriate tablecloth:

Hey, this looks familiar:

Finally, a sample of the immortal prose we collaboratively produced:

The 3.5 hours flew by, with no formal events -- we just went around saying a few words about ourselves, and did lots of chatting and typing. I think everyone who attended hopes that this won't be the last type-in at California Typewriter.

More reports: Mike Clemens, Mike again, Christine, Cindy, Tony