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Article: Typewriter salesman keeps pecking away.
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- Business Press
- Article date:
- April 11, 2005
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Byline: Darla Martin Tucker
Apr. 11--In its heyday during the early 1980s when electronic typewriters burst onto the scene, typewriter sales and service shop Ennis and Lackey Inc. had eight employees and lines of waiting customers. "Now it's just me," Art Fontaine, the sole owner and employee at the typewriter shop newly named Riverside Typewriter, said with a smile.
He operates his small store in Riverside's oldest shopping district, the Brockton Arcade, Tuesdays through Fridays, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. He sells a few new typewriters made by the only two manufacturers still cranking out the devices, repairs them and sells ribbons and other supplies. He also ...