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Article: TYPEWRITER REPAIR SHOPS HANG ON.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- July 22, 2005
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Byline: Heather Hollingsworth Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. -- Even in the constantly evolving age of computers, Bill Mark still gets the call once or twice a month -- a typewriter is broken and in need of repairs.
"You get into older people, they don't want to mess with computers," he said of his clients. "They are used to the typewriters."
Mark's shop -- Western Typewriter, established 1917 -- is a remnant of the era before PCs and ink jets. His only competition is a mostly retired repairman and another shop that mainly works on computers and printers.
"A lot of people that used to be into typewriters aren't into it anymore," ...