the Underwood Star

[@BrianGoodeBass]

I've got a textured black one from 1955 (see TWDB). I love mine too, for most of the same reasons. I was shouting "Macy's " at the screen all through this video! 😅 They were made for, and sold through Macy's dependent stores, which is where the "Star" name comes from... Macy's symbol is a big star.

[@Saboda53]

Yes, Macy’s has always featured a big “star”! Your theory makes perfect sense.

[@mattrobinson47]

Thanks for the discussion of touch-up paint…I’ve been afraid to try, but it makes a difference on the ‘curb-appeal’ of the machine. Your Star looks gorgeous

[@joãoAlberto-k9x]

We ❤ typewriters.

[@MenkoDany]

16:30 oh my, that sound!

[@xavierbrenner6219]

That color is gorgeous!

[@ks_types]

Great video! It's so interesting to see old advertisements. 😀❤️

[@Lexig76]

The very first typewriter in my collection was an Underwood Golden Touch Leader from I’m assuming in the late 50’s as well. It has the same color and build as your Star, except it has the orange golden touch logo in the front. Probably wasn’t the best typewriter to start my collection with, because I thought it was broken due to the lack of features most typewriters have and I didn’t know about base models 😭😂

[@MenkoDany]

You can buy freeze dried strawberry powder. They've become much cheaper now because gym bros started adding it to their protein shakes. The strawberry powder + cacao powder + ground coffee is pretty much all that dunkin' donuts mix was

[@davidgiancoli2106]

Great video, and I love the colour of this Underwood! Your comments about base model typewriters make me look again at my own collection and reconsider. Question: Do you still give your typewriters personal names? 😊

[@JustMyTypewriter]

I’ve stopped naming them! I have too many now to keep up with naming them

[@teripittman]

There was an Underwood in that Ebay search with a 26" platen! I will clean my new typers this weekend. The electric Coronet is wonderful. I think the Galaxie will be good when I get it sorted out. The more moden SCM has issues and is likely not a keeper. I have an Olivetti Splendid coming in today. The daisy wheel modern electrics don't feel right. That SCM electric types like it is possessed. But I was curious about them.

[@teripittman]

It's an Olympia Spendid. No Olivettis yet

[@lorensims4846]

I don'y usually care for flavored coffees, but I was looking forward to trying that one. Oh well… When I was finally able to recover all my 8-bit Atari computer stuff from mt sister's basement after thirty years, she asked if I would like a typewriter. Well, sure! It's a turquoise portable Underwood 319 in excellent condition. And I can find out nothing more about it. It looks to maybe be from the early to mid 60s and is relatively well featured. I've been looking for a portable, specifically the Royal Futura 800, partly because I like its unique typeface. This'll do. I assume it has that specific Underwood typeface and I appreciate companies who go to the effort to make their typefaces stand out, especially if it's intended to improve readability. I heard that Underwood went bankrupt because their typewriters were built so well that nobody ever had to replace them, but that may be an urban myth since it seems they were making typewriters for just about as long as anybody else.

[@glassman5898]

It's my understanding that the Underwood 319 was from the era after Olivetti bought the Underwood brand. It is identical to the Olivetti 92, just branded differently. I have an Underwood-Olivetti Studio 44, which was also branded as Olivetti-Underwood Studio 44 and as the Olivetti Studio 44. All the same machine, just different branding for different markets.

[@Ibrahim2010555]

Could you mention where the flea market is? My family lives in NJ and I am visiting soon!! 0:22

[@JustMyTypewriter]

It's called Five Acers Flea in Belvedere NJ

[@nathysilvio]

Hi! I wonder what's your opinion on Olivetti brand. I have one and it's a very good machine

[@JustMyTypewriter]

I have had a few, but I don’t end up using them very much. I often gravitate to my smith Coronas

[@space_1073]

Hi! what do you do at flea markets to make sure that the typewriter is worth buying? How broken is too broken? I want to buy a typewriter for writing, not collecting, and I'm lost on how to be sure the machine I get works well before I buy it!

[@JustMyTypewriter]

Check out my typewriter 101 series! I have a video on how to buy your first typewriter and that has tips and tricks on where to look and what to look for when buying a machine

[@aaronscholl9560]

I have a blue 1967 Aristocrat that I would trade for your yellow one. :-)

[@HairyDalek]

A nice typewriter … but those adverts from the 1950s. Very nice. You spoil us.