(True enough, though the route to her street was circuitous and confusing because of the narrow streets, her house was easy enough to find it was right where the Brgy Holy Spirit tricycle terminal was.)Ĭollecting typewriters is addicting, as I had been warned. 700 pesos was hardly even enough for a day’s worth of groceries, I thought, as she handed me her typewriter which she had used, she told us, as former secretary of the association of tricycle drivers in their area. A drove me 6 kms to Quezon City to pick it up. But the seller (who had written her name on it with a permanent marker, but which I can easily take out), it turned out, when we met her, seemed only too happy to get rid of it. My very last and cheapest purchase was a 700-peso Adler Junior 10 which I felt a little guilty getting for so cheap, because it still works. ![]() ![]() I started with my first unit in October 2020. And just like that, I collect typewriters now.
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