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1935 Smith Corona Standard Serial # 1C70578 1935 Smith Corona Standard typewriter, Serial # 1C70578 Julian Zadorozny's 1935 Smith Corona Standard typewriter. 2025-01-11 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Julian Zadorozny: 1935 Smith Corona Standard Serial # 1C70578 This 1935 Smith Corona Standard is celebrating its 90th birthday this year. I found this gem in downtown Toronto for a good price south of one hundred bucks. There is an antique market east of Roncesvalles on Queen Street West in the neighbourhood of Parkdale. The large room is cramped with tables full of melamine plates, tin clowns and crystal ashtrays. One gentleman had this elegant typewriter sitting in the center on display.

After a slight exchange about price, I brought the typewriter home, and it sat on my shelf for over a year. Finally, the machine has been serviced by Dominion Business Machines. The floating shift, flat top with black lacquer types well. The angle of the keys is comfortable, and the typeface is faint during typing, even with a new ribbon. My 1939 Remington Remette is four years older and designed differently. That machine doesn’t take kindly to typing for long periods of time.

The typewriters of the 1930s are aesthetically pleasing to look at but, for me, are not so functional for long hours of writing at the desk. However, what do I know? Authors used these Standards to write novels. Even modern academic author Tayari Jones writes on one in the 21st century. Journalist Norman Corwin punched those keys, and poets fell for their looks like T.S. Eliot.

This is the oldest typewriter in my collection, and I get to use a ninety year old machine to write a story from time to time. This Smith Corona has survived and that it still works gives me a chuckle.

1935 Smith Corona Standard #1C70578

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Julian Zadorozny (Kuliano1977)
Created: 01-11-2025 at 03:35PM
Last Edit: 01-11-2025 at 11:23PM

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This 1935 Smith Corona Standard is celebrating its 90th birthday this year. I found this gem in downtown Toronto for a good price south of one hundred bucks. There is an antique market east of Roncesvalles on Queen Street West in the neighbourhood of Parkdale. The large room is cramped with tables full of melamine plates, tin clowns and crystal ashtrays. One gentleman had this elegant typewriter sitting in the center on display.

After a slight exchange about price, I brought the typewriter home, and it sat on my shelf for over a year. Finally, the machine has been serviced by Dominion Business Machines. The floating shift, flat top with black lacquer types well. The angle of the keys is comfortable, and the typeface is faint during typing, even with a new ribbon. My 1939 Remington Remette is four years older and designed differently. That machine doesn’t take kindly to typing for long periods of time.

The typewriters of the 1930s are aesthetically pleasing to look at but, for me, are not so functional for long hours of writing at the desk. However, what do I know? Authors used these Standards to write novels. Even modern academic author Tayari Jones writes on one in the 21st century. Journalist Norman Corwin punched those keys, and poets fell for their looks like T.S. Eliot.

This is the oldest typewriter in my collection, and I get to use a ninety year old machine to write a story from time to time. This Smith Corona has survived and that it still works gives me a chuckle.

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Hunter: Julian Zadorozny (Kuliano1977)

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I purchased my first typewriter in 2000: Brother Pro-Line 707 built in 1969.
I wrote eight hours a day, seven days a week on that tiny machine. I wrote my first unpublished novel and hundreds of short stories on the Brother.
In 2020 I decided to purchase my second typewriter. At ten and counting, I still use and collect these amazing tools for writing.


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