These were even before my time! Our first telephone was a fetching two-tone green affair. How over-awed we were!
Sadly, this was not before my time. I learned to type on one of these, and I have the arthritic wrists/fingers to prove it!
The Weekly Photo Challenge this week was ‘alphabet’. To see other responses, click on the link.
About Sandra
I used to cruise the French waterways with my husband four or five months a year, and wrote fiction and poetry. Now I live on the beautiful Dorset coast, enjoying the luxury of being able to have a cat, cultivating an extensive garden and getting involved in the community. I still write fiction, but only when the spirit moves me - which isn't as often as before. I love animals, F1 motor racing, French bread and my husband, though not necessarily in that order.
These were even before my time! Our first telephone was a fetching two-tone green affair. How over-awed we were!
Sadly, this was not before my time. I learned to type on one of these, and I have the arthritic wrists/fingers to prove it!
castelsarrasin 
We had a phone just like your top picture! It was heavy
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You could give yourself a nasty crack on the temple if you snatched it up, too! 🙂
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I learned on the same machine! Oh, the memories….I’m so happy for my computer 😉
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I remember how my poor hands used to feel at the end of every lesson.:)
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Great responses to the challenge, Sandra!
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Thank you Sue!
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I remember both of these, Sandra. However hard typing on a typewriter was, the skills served me well when I transitioned years later to a keyboard. 🙂 I read once that when secretaries switched from manual to electric typewriters, they gained weight. I can understand that the calories burned were a lot less!
janet
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I remember, after learning that you pressed the ‘p’ and the ‘q’ with your little fingers, thinking that I would never be a five-fingered typist. I still type at close to 70wpm though.
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I type faster than my computer guy husband, Sandra, so those classes worked. 🙂
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I remember that typewriter we had one or two in our class and those who arrived late had to use those instead of the newer ones that were just as monstrous.
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Yes. And after that came the electric typewriters and the golf-balls. Fascinating!
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i love these Sandra!
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Thank you KZ. 🙂 Happy New Year!
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you too. have a wonderful 2016 🙂
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I’m not showing my age, but I too have used a similar typewriter and needless to say, jumped into computers as soon as they came out!
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I transitioned through something called a Screentyper which was just a word processing machine. Didn’t do much other than type and edit but it was heaven to me and my poor wrists. 🙂
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My grandparents had a phone similar to that one, and the typewriter was one of the first ones I started typing on. I gladly adapted to newer models as they came along because I can remember those keys crashing together. 🙂
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Yes, I remember having to untangle them. And ribbon changing was always a very dirty affair…
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Wonderful take on the challenge, and I too learned to type on a manual typewriter…..it was hell!!
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Thanks, yes, I can sympathise!
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I seem to remember my parents had a phone like that one in the house where I was born. You used to get it from the Bell Telephone Company in the U.S. and Dad was not one for seeking modernization as long as something worked. I learned to type in high school and the machines were newer than that. I just always seemed to get one that skipped. 😀 — Suzanne
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Lovely captions!
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