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By The Sea Typewriters Repairing, Restoring, and Writing on vintage typewriters in the greater Tampa area.

We’ve been BUSY today!!! Typewriters are available!
10/24/2026

We’ve been BUSY today!!! Typewriters are available!

We’re here! Come say hello at the Coffee & Art festival, until 5pm! I am featuring Espresso-Grams to type, Flash Fiction...
10/24/2026

We’re here! Come say hello at the Coffee & Art festival, until 5pm! I am featuring Espresso-Grams to type, Flash Fiction, Poetry, or just type whatever you want. Books are available as well! ☕️ 🖼️

Hope you will come by Saturday at the Tampa Bay Coffee and Art Festival from 9am-5pm at the Tampa Fairgrounds and say he...
10/22/2026

Hope you will come by Saturday at the Tampa Bay Coffee and Art Festival from 9am-5pm at the Tampa Fairgrounds and say hello! We’ll have typewriters for quick “Espresso-Grams” and some flash fiction prompts. My books and several typewriters will be available for purchase!

We’ll be there will a fleet of typewriters to use, flash fiction, or typing for the fun of it! Also, all my books will b...
10/12/2026

We’ll be there will a fleet of typewriters to use, flash fiction, or typing for the fun of it! Also, all my books will be available for purchase!!!

Craft. Culture. Community.

Anyone else journal with a typewriter? Journaling Can Change Your Brain–Here Are 4 Ways to Do It
09/22/2026

Anyone else journal with a typewriter? Journaling Can Change Your Brain–Here Are 4 Ways to Do It

Get the most out of journaling with these science-backed methods.

Just finished a first draft of a short story in my 1927 Woodstock. Did a great job over 15 pages for 99 years old!Two mo...
08/24/2026

Just finished a first draft of a short story in my 1927 Woodstock. Did a great job over 15 pages for 99 years old!
Two more drafts of the story and I’ll scan it. Until then, it’s off the grid.

The next BIG project! I acquired a 1920 Oliver 9 “Batwing” typewriter! It needs a lot of cleaning and some minor repair ...
08/22/2026

The next BIG project! I acquired a 1920 Oliver 9 “Batwing” typewriter! It needs a lot of cleaning and some minor repair but it’s a truly unique machine. The “Batwings” were innovative in the early tens to allow you to see what you were typing. Machines prior typed from the bottom up, so the text was hidden. This also has a handy pencil holder to draw lines on the paper! A lot of work to do but this is a special one. I got it from the original owners family. She was a nurse in Jacksonville, FL in the 1920’s and learned to type on it. I hope I can get it from this dark color back to its original olive green. We’ll see…

NOW is the time to order this book! Listen to the short podcast to find out why.
07/18/2026

NOW is the time to order this book! Listen to the short podcast to find out why.

Dear Students, Observations and other stories I never told you, is ...

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