8/31/2023 0 Comments Hermes 2000 manual![]() Probably it began with my seventh-grade English term paper. Within a few years of that, I got involved in writing (though certainly with no eye toward making it my life’s work). So Dad moved his big red desk and big gray typewriter upstairs to my old bedroom. She commandeered Dad’s basement office for this purpose because it was close to existing plumbing. Mom used to say that her friends joked that she was the only housewife they knew who got her cleaning rags pressed.) (Until then, “doing the laundry” meant stretching a bedsheet or two in the front hall for everybody to bring their dirty clothes and sheets on the morning that a man would come from “The Laundry” in his delivery truck. For the first time in her life, Mom had to wash our dirty laundry. ![]() In about 1968, my grandfather retired and closed his sizable laundry and dry-cleaning business. ![]() Among the objects in his basement was a full-size, office-grade Royal Model FP manual typewriter - a real beast - that sat atop a heavy wooden desk that had been shellacked a peculiar shade of red.
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