Along with Ron Rosenbaum, Steven Levy, Patricia Highsmith, and the fictional Frank Navasky of You've Got Mail fame, I have joined the Quiet Cult of the Olympia Report de Luxe Electric Typewriter.
I acquired this at thrift for $21.95 on 2026-10-10 for Mother's Day in immaculate condition! It's as if someone used it to type up a few essays then put it in the case for 49 years. Other than some minor wear, this may be the singularly cleanest typewriter I've ever purchased. As my first typebar electric Olympia, I was so looking forward to taking it apart and giving it a full clean, oil, and adjust, but beyond wiping off some exterior dust, this machine really needs no work. I'm both disappointed and elated at the same time.
"Now listen to this.
The gentle and soothing lullaby of a piece of machinery so perfect --"
—Frank Navasky, YOU'VE GOT MAIL (Warner Bros., 1998)
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"text": "Along with Ron Rosenbaum, Steven Levy, Patricia Highsmith, and the fictional Frank Navasky of You've Got Mail fame, I have joined the Quiet Cult of the Olympia Report de Luxe Electric Typewriter.\n\nI acquired this at thrift for $21.95 on 2026-10-10 for Mother's Day in immaculate condition! It's as if someone used it to type up a few essays then put it in the case for 49 years. Other than some minor wear, this may be the singularly cleanest typewriter I've ever purchased. As my first typebar electric Olympia, I was so looking forward to taking it apart and giving it a full clean, oil, and adjust, but beyond wiping off some exterior dust, this machine really needs no work. I'm both disappointed and elated at the same time.\u00a0\n\n\n\"Now listen to this.\u00a0\nThe gentle and soothing lullaby of a piece of machinery so perfect --\"\n\u2014Frank Navasky, YOU'VE GOT MAIL (Warner Bros., 1998)",
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It's waffle day! Cooked and packed 76 waffles (9.5 weeks of waffles)
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For dinner, I reverse-seared a whole beef tenderloin, served with a brandy peppercorn sauce, roasted fingerling potatoes, and some veg. Dessert was supposed to be my grandmother’s Hershey Cake, but I am a terrible baker and ended up having to improvise, but it was still tasty.
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Whew, what a weekend. My daughter had four theater performances, my son had D&D club, my mother in law is visiting, and I cooked a huge meal for Mother’s Day. I’m zonked!
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My first ever Woodstock. Acquired via thrift for $50 on 2026-05-08. Possibly a bit more expensive than it might have otherwise been, but the key rings are in stunning shape, and the work to polish them is easily worth several hundred in labor! The decals are also in exceptional condition. Aside from some cosmetic damage to the typebar hood, this machine is in exceptionally great cosmetic condition and will be even more so following a full polish of the body and the brights.
Quick initial work
- Naturally it needs a new ribbon, but it's got enough ink left for a quick typesample.
- A fast dusting and a preliminary scrub of the carriage rails and a few other parts with isopropyl alcohol and it's ready for some basic work. Primarily the return lever and the margin sets were very gummy, while the keylevers had some pretty good action without any attention. (Someone really loved this machine.)
- The carriage return lever needed some forming so that it no longer scrapes on the typebar hood.
- A quick cleaning of the slugs which were in reasonable shape. List of work to be done:
- The tabulator needs some adjustment to work properly as the tab mechanism is sitting a bit high and causes the carriage to scrape.
- It's going to need a ring and cylinder adjustment so that it's not damaging the platen anymore, though the platen is so hard that it needs replacement anyway.
- The rubber feet are usable, but need replacement.
- The space key also may need some timing attention, but perhaps the slow symptoms will disappear with a full cleaning?
- The rulers (5!) are slightly out of adjustment.
- Full clean, oil, and adjust A day's worth of cleaning and some modest adjustments and this should be a fantastic little machine.
Interesting features
- I love the fact that this has some interesting paper fingers. They don't seem to be well-suited to index card work however.
- The unique ribbon reverse mechanism (a small metal button) is adjustable on either side.
- It doesn't have an individual tab clear button, but, in lieu, has a clear all tabs lever.
- I love the design of the ribbon color selector which requires pulling a spring-loaded button out to switch colors---no accidental color changes here.
- Rather than a traditional "margin release" button it has a "line lock release", but like the Olympia SG series, it only locks when typing characters, but will blow past the margins if using the spacebar.
- Rather than a more common line space selector, this has a knurled knob that needs to be pulled out and set with a pin-type mechanism. This also means that the selector can't accidentally change its setting for any reason.
- The Woodstock No. 5 is an early carriage shift standard
- The typebar hood is made of some sort of early plastic and slides onto the top of the machine. While it's borne the brunt of most of the machine's cosmetic damage, it is easy to remove for typing "naked". It goes on quickly to help protect the internals from ambient dust.
According to the TWdB page for the Woodstock, the 8-12 prefix on the serial number indicates a 12" carriage (the width of the rubber portion of the platen). There isn't any extant detail to indicate what the suffix "E" in the serial number means, though one might presume the elite or 12 pitch typeface?
Historic Users of the Woodstock
Users of Woodstock typewriters included:
- Robert Bloch
- Howard Fast
- Alger Hiss (1929 standard #230099)
- Sir Patrick Moore
- J.C. Oldfield (editor of the Associated Press's London bureau, 1930s)
- Gordon Parks ("Can you dig it?")
Woodstock manuals
Richard Polt has manuals for the Woodstock available on his site at:
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Oh cool, the next season of Silo comes out in July. This season will be heavily based on Shift, and I am curious to see how viewers respond. It’s… very very different.
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The question "How do you use your typewriter(s)?" pops up for me fairly frequently. Often it's collectors who love the machines and only think of using them for writing the "Great American Novel". However there are a variety of tasks one could use them for besides conversation pieces or functional art in the home.
Below are some various recent uses I've made of my typewriter collection:
- I've got writing projects sitting in two different machines.
- I use one on my primary desk and another on the table behind it for typing up notes on index cards, recipes, my commonplace "book", letters, and other personal correspondence.
- I use a few of my portables on the porch in the mornings/evenings for journaling.
- One machine in the hallway is for burning ideas, jokes, poetry and an occasional bit of typewriter art.
- I often have one in the trunk of the car for typing on the go or the impromptu busking session.
- One machine near the kitchen is always gamed up for adding to the ever-growing shopping list.
- I'll often get one out for scoring baseball games. (See also other baseball scoring experiments.)
- Participating in One Typed Page and One Typed Quote
- Typing up notes in zoom calls. I've got a camera mount over a Royal KMG that has its own Zoom account so people can watch the notes typed in real time.
- Labels for folders, index card dividers, and sticky labels.
- Addressing envelopes.
- Writing out checks.
- Typecasting
- Hiding a flask or two of bourbon (large standards, and especially the Fold-A-Matic Remingtons are great for this)
- Supplementing the nose of my bourbon and whisky collection.
At the end of the day though, unless you're Paul Sheldon, typewriters are unitaskers and are designed to do one thing well: put text on paper. All the rest are just variations on the theme. 😁🤪☠️
Looking for other ideas? I've indexed a number of times people have asked this question and some of the answers I've run across.
Looking for the opposite of this list? Try: How do you use your typewriter? [Wrong Answers Only Edition] This is where you'll find the quirky off-label use cases like "boat anchor", "doorstop", "paper weight", etc. that the non-typewriter afficionados will be sure to appreciate throwing about.
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Rogue One: The Andor Cut
David Kaylor is re-editing Rogue One into what he calls “The Andor Cut”; the trailer seems pretty compelling and...
A Rogue One fan edit by David Kaylor is on the way. It tells the story from Cassian Andor’s perspective, better aligning it with the Disney+ series. Andor is, IMO, the best Star Wars content since The Empire Strikes back.
Kaylor has plenty of experience creating successful fan edits:
The remixed Rogue One will be out on May 25, available in 4K with 5.1 surround sound. Kaylor has previously produced cuts of all three original trilogy Star Wars movies, Star Wars: Episode III - The Siege of Mandalore & Revenge of the Sith (a combo of the third prequel and part of the 7th season of Clone Wars).
Optimistic about this one!
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Acquired at Goodwill Southern California for $20.28 including tax on 2026-05-06. Needs a full clean, oil, and adjust, but not in generally bad shape. Two or three mechanical issues to sort out, but it's got some new ink and a quick wipe down/dusting has helped immensely.
I'm in love with the Art Deco chrome styling. This was manufactured sometime between January and June 1947.
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My son is doing a project on the history of programming languages and I’ve never felt more like a “well, actually” guy in my life. My brain is permanently broken because of being a programmer. Every little detail that’s slightly inaccurate makes me twinge. 😂
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Daredevil finale was so so good. Heavy-handed, but it’s a superhero show on Disney+. I’ll give them credit, they managed to land the whole duality of good and evil thing. The cameos, new heroes and villains, dramatic reveals, all of it — worked!
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Had some Cuzcatlan brand Cola Champagne (aka kola shanpan) at a Salvadoran restaurant the other day. Is it me, or is this the same formulation as Scottish Irn-Bru?
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On my second flight of the day headed back west. This flight is gnarly — 5 hours long and I’m in a window seat. It’s an exit row in “comfort,” I just don’t like being trapped. On the plus side, I’m running a “ralph loop” dev cycle using Claude Code Remote Control while reading “The Well of Ascension.”
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These “I tricked into giving me instructions for building an explosive and all it took was 90 minutes of gaslighting” stories are silly. You know where else you can find this information? Every search engine ever, in far less than 90 minutes. Performative clickbait.
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Citrus Club on Haight Street has closed for good. :(
I walked by earlier this evening to order some takeout and all the signage was gone and a large metal gate was lowered.
A notice of application for ownership change was posted including a license for “On sale beer & wine eating place”.
Looks like it was sold sometime in the past two weeks.
New name: Grind and Unwind https://grindunwindsf.com/
#CitrusClubSF is no more.
I have been eating here and getting take out for a long time. Lots of memories with so many friends. Citrus Club was my favorite neighborhood noodle place. They had numerous vegan and vegetarian dishes. My favorite dishes were the BBQ tofu spring rolls, and marmalade coconut shrimp without the shrimp, substituting both fresh and fried tofu. From the menu: “sweet peas, onions & lemomngrass. Tossed in our coconut sauce w/Jade(spinach)noodles.”
When I walked by on the return home, the front door was open, the inside was lit but looked emptied, and there was music playing.
🎶 Ain't no sunshine when she's gone 🎶
#CitrusClub #Haight #HaightStreet #HaightAshbury #SanFrancisco #smallBusiness #closed
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