A visit to Ace Typewriter

Joining us at Ace was Portland resident and regular client Ethan Jewett:

Ethan, Matt, and Lewis check out my Junior 58:

An early Underwood 3-bank getting the Ace treatment:

Some 19th-century machines inhabit a top shelf:

My Junior enjoys the ambience of 1962, complete with a cigarette butt in the lamp/ashtray:

We inspect a folding Erika:

Lewis' gleaming Harris:

Nick gives the Harris a whirl:

Matt demonstrates a keytop removal tool:

Three painted Quiet De Luxe sisters:

This gadget is for rewinding ribbons:

Matt's dad started the practice of peeling old labels off machines that were in for service. He saved them all. This is now a historical archive ... as is the whole shop.

Some panoramas (click for a better view):

Ace Typewriter website

Thanks for the hospitality!