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Sexy typewriter postcards of yore

Cory Doctorow at 5:39 pm Mon, May 21, 2012

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On How to Be a Retronaut, an invigorating, 1910s-1920s gallery of winsome, partially unclothed lasses posed with typewriters. Hummina. 23 and/or skiddoo! They're ganked from marvellous Virtual Antique Typewriter Museum.

Typewriter Erotica c. 1920s (via Making Light)

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Howard W

The read more tags show ‘OLD SCHOOL SEX TYPEWRITERS’, i was so hoping to be able to click on that
http://twitter.com/sexytypewriter Sexy Typewriter

And after you enjoy these sassy images, check out my online dating blog of similar Sexy Typewriter-ness.
SoItBegins

Fun fact: When the typewriter was originally invented, the same term (typewriter) referred to both the machine and the girl hired to operate it.

This led to a number of risqué jokes, such as one about a businessman who’d gone bankrupt and was writing to his wife:

“Dear Blanche,
I have been forced to sell off my assets, furniture, etc . . . . and am sitting here writing this with my typewriter in my lap.”
- digi_owl
  
  Was not the term computer a reference to young ladies that would sit in a office all day doing various repetitive math tasks by hand (and perhaps a mechanical calculator in more up scale places)?
  - SoItBegins
    
    Not sure. I’d always heard that it was from ‘computers’ (protomathematicians) who would do tasks by hand, but I’d thought it dated back earlier, to before Charles Babbage.
    - digi_owl
      
      Well i had to look:
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer
PhosPhorious

NSFWIYWITNT

(Not Safe For Work, If You Work In The Nineteen Twenties)
- SoItBegins
  
  Yep~! I’m reading this page on my iTelegraph now.
  - niktemadur
    
    Well looky here, we’ve got ourselves a hipster flapper!
    
    Going to speakesies and drinking wood alcohol BEFORE it was illegal.
    Rooting for the Dodgers when they were STILL the Superbas (Brooklyn reference, get it?).
digi_owl

And the bbshop produces a squirrel with mixed nuts.
gwailo_joe

Va-VA-VOOM! You can take my dictation anytime, Shweetheart!
crummett

I’m gonna start using “23 and/or skiddoo!” as my new sig!
Preston Sturges

Here’s a site with old postcards.

http://www.oldstratforduponavon.com/eroticlink.html There’s another site of classic photos I’ll try to find. Those Ziegfield girls were naked quite a bit!
Eark_the_Bunny

There’s a typewriter in those pictures! I didn’t see any typewriter!
irksome

It’s the wrinkled hosiery that get me off.
http://www.jimdraws.com Thorzdad

Ah…the time-honored “sexy secretary” meme. See also: Posing with a steno pad and pencil.
Nash Rambler

I’d like to see her keystroke rate on my Underwood.
chgoliz

Those are sexy typewriters, indeed. It’s hard to get a good look at all the details, though, with those legs in the way.
Teller

She’s typing Fifty Shades of Grey.
http://www.lightning-rose.com/ LightningRose

Grandma?
- Forkboy
  
  GILF
Gary61

write dirty to me ….