Located at 116
Fulton Street in
Manhattan, the Tytell
Typewriter is closing it's doors after
66 years of business.
"The only reason offices keep typewriters around now is for labels and addressing letters," says Peter Tytell, "The new generation doesn't know what a typewriter is."
Tytell offered typewriters in 145 languages and dialects including
Farsi,
Serb,
Croatian and
Cryllic.
It's customers included journalists
David Brinkley,
Andy Rooney,
John Hockenberry and writers including
Dorthy Parker and
Richard Condon.
Peter Tytell's father Martin Tytell even repaired
Margret Bourke-Whit's
shrapnel damaged
Hermes Baby she used to cover the
Korean War.
Martin began fixing typewriters when he was 15 years old. "The closing is very sad, because the store was my life for more than 70 years."
Quotes taken from an
International Hearld Tribune story by
Glenn Collins on February 20, 2001.