STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - STAPLETON - The manual typewriter is akin to an ancient relic for most people, but it turned out to be a magnet for some 75 people of all ages and experience who turned out over ...

I grew up on a manual typewriter, the same one my mom used to write articles for Life Magazine in the ’50s and ’60s. It was a small portable in a beat-up canvas case, and you had to hit the keys hard.

Tom Hanks, the two-time Academy Award-winning actor and cultural icon, recently gifted an autographed 1950s manual typewriter to Philly Typewriter, a preservation and restoration shop in East Passyunk ...