Photo of typewriter with a Continental Films document for a movie starring French actors Albert Prejean and Juliette Faber. The typepwriter on a desk is part of an exhibition of film noir props at Les Passages in Boulogne-Billancourt.
If you're in Paris today through November 4th, you might enjoy a visit to the Salon du Livre et Papiers Anciens. The annual event is open daily from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Espace Champerret in the 17th arrondisement. Admission is 7 euros. Take the metro to Porte de Champerret. See you there!
P.S. I am one of the winners in Ally Bean's "Tell me Something I Don't Know" contest. Check it out here - and browse through Ally's archives. She has a great sense of humour!
All those lovely little drawers would make a perfect sewing chest - I'm betting your daughter would love that, Tara. Such wonderful treasures!~xo
Posted by: tinker | 28 October 2007 at 18:53
We had one that kind of looked like that, did you?
Posted by: rochambeau | 27 October 2007 at 15:50
Tara, thanks for the link and thanks for explaining the keyboard. Once again you've told me something I don't know!! ;-)
Posted by: Ally | 27 October 2007 at 13:34
Oh, my God! I so wanted one like this as a child! I imagined writing my novels on it :) Wish I were there to see it all!
Posted by: Alina Popescu | 27 October 2007 at 10:19
oh gee - love that cool typewriter!
xox - eb.
Posted by: eb | 27 October 2007 at 06:42
I love old typewriters! I have one from 1896 and I wish there was someone who knew how to fix it. As always your posts and photographs are dreamy.
Posted by: Yoli | 27 October 2007 at 00:31
I first learned to type on a typewrite like that and oh, how wonderful when we got electrics! Sigh!
Posted by: Mary t. | 26 October 2007 at 23:15
I love old typewriters like this! I learned to type on one something like this one. Back in the day...before computers, before word processing, before electronic typewriters, before electric typewriters...with a manual return handle!!! Nostalgia!! And it wasn't even THAT long ago!! ;)
Congratulations on being a winner!!
Posted by: Cherie | 26 October 2007 at 23:00
Hey, that typewriter's not "qwerty." What gives?
Nice photo, btw.
Tara responds:
It's "azerty," the French keyboard.
Posted by: Ally | 26 October 2007 at 21:19
such an evocative photo -- I can almost smell my old Royal, acquired secondhand with a faded olfactory aura of tobacco and typewritter ribbon. I suppose that means I'm "ancien" aussi!
Posted by: materfamilias | 26 October 2007 at 19:59