Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Snail Mail or Email??


I know it's faster but that email you get on your iPhone can't compare with a letter typed on this great old manual typewriter.

Of course it brought this tune to mind........the Boxtops!

14 comments:

Olivier said...

beau b&w, avec le moderne (le telephone portable) et la vieille marchine a ecrire

brattcat said...

it looks like someone is composing a poem on that olivetti.

Luis Gomez said...

Totally agree with you!

Thérèse said...

Do you know that a few students buy these kind of typewriters which allow them to think and type slower??

MadAboutParis said...

Yes, the Modern Love column of Sunday's NYTimes mentioned that.

Leif Hagen said...

V de B - were you typing ME a letter? You'll see today that I was thinking 'a toi....

Daryl said...

Once again ... GMTA .. well yesterday anyway

Malyss said...

You're talking to my mind and heart! I'm a great snailmailer, and I have penfriends all over the world!I like to write and to receive letters and postcards!

Randy said...

I just love the sound of a typewriter. Looks like the one I had in typing class.

Bob Crowe said...

I think it helps that the typewriter is Italian and therefore inherently inefficient. I used to write long letters to people. Now it's all email. At least I still don't tweet.

TheChieftess said...

My mother made me take typing in High School...I refused to take more than one semester because I didn't want to be a secretary, and of course, in my mind, if I took typing, that was my destiny!!! Thank you mom for making me take typing, because I can now write this comment without looking at the keyboard!!! No hunt and peck for me!!!

When I was in college...I regretted not taking more typing, until my future first mother-in-law took pity on me while I was using her fancy-dancy selectric typewriter and tossing out pages right and left because of mistakes...she was a court transcriber and could type about 120 words a minute with no mistakes!!! Eventually I gave up even trying to type them first and just asked her to type them for me!!! Thank you Lou...you got me through college!!!

TheChieftess said...

ps...I love the juxtaposition of the cell phone next to the typewriter...technology sure has changed!!!

Oakland Daily Photo said...

Amusing observation. The old Olivetti has a style all its own.

Jilly said...

Love the mix of old typewriter and modern phone and the (I think) poetry being typed. Also adore the black and white and shadows.