Typewriting in Public

An Encounter of Retro Tech Over Coffee

I’ve previously written on Substack about my love for typewriters. You’ll often see me banging away on my Smith-Corona Skyriter at my favorite neighborhood coffeeshop, Afro Joe’s.

The Skyriter is a great portable typewriter, manufactured in the 1950s for journalists, war correspondents, and white collar workers. It’s lightweight and easy to haul from pl…