Curmudgeons, especially literary ones, make lively interview subjects. Remember Ray Bradbury’s declaration, on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday last month, that “we’ve got too many Internets”?

BREMERTON — Sometimes, things just line up right and a historic institution gets saved. You might remember a story two years ago about Bob Montgomery, the area’s last full-time typewriter repairman.

The Chicago Model Number One typewriter was manufactured from the 1880s until 1917 in Chicago and Galesburg by the Chicago Writing Machine Company (later named the Galesburg Writing Machine Company).

For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter—or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric—are but memories, or something seen only in movies. But at the few remaining typewriter repair ...

For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter – or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric – are but memories, if we’ve heard them at all. But at the few remaining typewriter repair shops ...

For most of us, the clickety-clack of a manual typewriter — or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric — are but memories, or something seen only in movies. But at the few remaining typewriter repair ...

You may find yourself living in interesting times. The world we knew two months ago is gone, and there is time enough at last, to finally go through those projects we’ve been putting off for one ...

ARLINGTON — The phone was ringing off the hook Wednesday as Tom Furrier, the long-time owner of Cambridge Typewriter Co., sat amid dozens of vintage machines scattered throughout his small shop.

NEXT. KMBC NINE NEWS MANY OF US HAVE HOBBIES, BUT FOR ONE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS STUDENT, A LIFELONG LOVE FOR TYPEWRITERS HAS BECOME HIS JOB. KMBC NINE JACKSON KURTZ TAKES US INTO HIS WORKSHOP AND WORLD ...