2013.04.21 NYC Type-IN

When my mentor and good friend Michael McGettigan from Philly’s Trophy Bike recently asked me to co-produce “NYC Type-IN: a jam session for manual typewriters and the people who love them.” I say yes right away because we are alike that by day we work at bike shop and by night we geek out on manual typewriters. With the help of our gracious host Lorcan Otway, Theatre 80 and William Barnacle Tavern, the first Manhattan Type-IN was a blast! Here are photos documenting this historical event:

Lovely Sunday afternoon on St. Mark Place…

for Manhattan’s first Type-IN: a jam session for manual typewriters and the people who love them.

Likely the oldest typewriter brought in by Bryan Kruk, one of the teenager attending Type-IN.

William Barnacle Tavern… was a Speakeasy back in the 20’s.

McGettigan meeting with NBC producers

Mike and Tom having a conversation about typewriters?

once you are done typing

move to the next typewriter

start typing again…

McGettigan in the presence of typewriter repair legend

Three Wise Men of Typewriter Repair (Paul Schweitzer /Gramercy Typewriter Co., Michael Ardito /Hometown Business Machine, Tom Furrier / Cambridge Typewriter Co.) …

and their hands together with over 100 years of typewriter repair experiences keeping manual typewriters alive!

speed typing showdown in progress

tight race

comparing results

Time for an old fashion radio commercial for US Postal Service…

snail mail session in progress

typo?

wrap up with sealing and stamping the envelope before heading to the mailbox

McGettigan can finally relax and enjoy his beer.

Thank you Lorcan Otway, Theatre 80 & William Barnacle Tavern for hosting NYC Type-IN!

I am still new to the typosphere and I didn’t get to start another site about manual typewriter yet so I am using my folding bike food tour site to share these photos as quickly as I can. I also didn’t catch all the make & model of typewriters I took photos of. Please help me to label them accordingly? Thank you! – Steven  nyctyper(at)gmail.com