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Tonight it’s a double pairing: first it’s the 1955 Royal HHE typewriter and an Isle of Skye 18 year old Scotch whisky and an almost perfect pairing of the Royal HH with my new (to me) brown vintage (1940s?) desk lamp with art deco styling.

Office set up showing a gray executive tanker desk with blue drawers and writing drawers. In the front is a brown Royal HH standard typewriter with a visually similar vintage brown metal desk lamp with art deco styling behind it. Off to the side is a box for and bottle of Isle of Sky 18 year old whisky with a double old fashioned glass nearby.

Fletch and his Royal HH Standard Typewriters

I noticed that just like Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein in All the President's Men, Chevy Chase portraying the titular Fletch (Universal Pictures, 1985) has a Royal HH typewriter not only at his Santa Monica apartment, but he also has a matching one at his office at the Los Angeles Globe. Fletch's Apartment Office [caption id="attachment_55833107" align="aligncenter" width="660"] Interesting to note that Fletch's home office typewriter has a POLICE sticker on it...[/caption] […]

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Fletch rolls a sheet of paper into the platen of a Royal HH standard typewriter at his office desk.

Standing, Fletch looks up from his desktop. Behind him in the middle of his home desk sits a Royal HH typewriter.

Fletch with a beer in hand eyes a basketball on the floor. In front of him on the desk is a brown Royal HH standard typewriter.

Today’s office. We’ve got a newly finished Shaw-Walker filing cabinet and a 1955 Royal HH standard typewriter.

#analogOffice #RoyalHH #ShawWalkerFurnitureCompany #todaySOffice #typewriters

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Office setting with a green metal table in the foreground with a brown Royal HH typewriter on it. In the background are a card catalog filing cabinet and a four drawer filing cabinet whose paint matches the table. There's also a barrister bookcase full of books.

I usually type up a short introduction card for the handful of typewriters sitting around the house so that visitors will have an idea of what they’re appreciating. It’s almost like having a museum card on a work of art, but usually mine have a call to type on them. Naturally there are either index cards or paper close at hand to encourage both touching and typing.

Above is the brief introduction to the 1955 Royal HH I finished repairing, cleaning out, and re-assembling today.

Ready to type at the end of the day, a Royal HH sits next to a Negroni.

#museumCards #RoyalHH #typecasts #typewriterPairings #typewriters

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Typewritten index card in black elite typeface that reads: Hello! I'm a 1955 Royal HH. I'm what's known as a standard typewriter. Usually I would sit permanently on a desk in one space and rarely move, much like a desktop computer now. Smaller and lighter portable typewriters existed for easier use, but they didn't come close to my performance, particularly for long periods of typing. Of course this performance is the reason that writers and creators like Truman Capote, Sylvia Plath, Elia Kazan, Mario Puzo, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Charles Bukowski, George Burns, Herb Coen, Bruce Catton, Paddy Chayefski, Don Dellilo, Alice Denham, Paul Russell, James T. Farrell, William F. Buckley, Sterling North, Robert B. Parker, William Zinzer and even Hugh Heffner used Royal HH typewriters just like this one. I've got the standard Royal elite typeface and I can lay down type at 12 characters per inch and 6 lines per vertical inch. This makes me an excellent candidate to write the next great American novel. Why don't you get some paper and give me a whirl?

A large standard Royal HH typewriter on a side table next to an old fashioned glass with a Negroni in it.

I love the smell of mineral spirits in the morning.

#ApocalypseNow #RoyalHH #typewriterCleaning

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#analogOfficeEquipment #AnalogOffice #computerViruses #CrowdStrike #FTW #RoyalHH #typecasts #typewriters

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Typewritten index card that reads 2024-07-19 While CrowdStrike is dominating the news today, it bears mentioning that one of the benefits of typing on a Royal HH typewriter is that it won't ever ge down as the result of a software update. It will also never get or transmit a computer virus of any sort. #AnalogOffice #FTW

You see photos of standard typewriters, but you’re never ready for what shows up. To provide some scale, here are my 12.8 pound 1949 Royal Quiet De Luxe portable and my 29.8 pound 1955 Royal HH standard next to each other. The Royal HH is a substantial typewriter. (I think I’m in love. 😍)

#RoyalHH #RoyalHHE #RoyalQuietDeLuxe #typewriters

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