Not quite the L C Smith I'm familiar with
 

Took wife and another couple to dinner in Wash, DC tonight and walked into Miss Pixies second hand shop on 14th St. and came across this L C Smith & Corona typewriter. Never new L C Smith made them.

Absolutely, actually they were very common

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-L-C-...-/121258972029

They made bicycles too... or Hunter Arms made bicycles. And so did Remington and Lefever.





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I have a nice early one that just says LC Smith - no Corona -

I'll post a pic later

you can find the date on here

http://typewriterdatabase.com/smithc...umber-database

The much more lucrative typewriter market and his designer Alexander T. Brown's assertion he could make a better one, is the reason Lyman C. Smith dumped the gun business off on the Hunter Brothers and moved on to bigger and better things. Remington and Ithaca both made typewriters as well, but stuck to the gun business.

Underwood made a beautiful typewriter, and M1 carbines.

That may very well be Mr. Spencer but nothing beats a Corona.:whistle:

When someone asks about the spelling of my last name I assess their age.
If they are under 55 I say it's spelled like the beer. If I say it's spelled like the typewriter they say "HUH, what's that?" I must be getting old.

And yet, I always associated you with that little Toyota from years back. Those same millennials wouldn't get that one either.

Sheesh.... it's Corolla Edgar - but then I knew a Japanese guy who named his first son Roger. It always made me laugh that he gave his son a name he couldn't even pronounce.... he always referred to him as "Logah".





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Here's a good one...


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I bought a Winchester table top meat grinder at a garage sale for $4, and sold it at the next gun show for $85

They say our Long Term memory goes first , so you needn't ( Like I really expected? haha)apologize for your error. Volvos are NOT the only foreign import.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Corona

"In many countries, the Corona was one of Toyota's first international exports, and was shortly joined by the smaller Toyota Corolla, providing buyers with a choice of a larger car, with similar operating expenses to the smaller Corolla. The Corona was Toyota's second sedan in their hierarchy of products, just below the Crown, until 1968 when the Corona name was used on a larger, all new platform called the Toyota Corona Mark II, which gave buyers more interior space while still offering dependable, affordable performance."

You, being quite a lot older than I, would be familiar with such antique imports.

It's good to know where you get your "encyclopedic" knowledge... from the Internet - and practical experience.





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It was easier to attach the wiki link than to type it all out. My ex-MIL had one of these, when I was dating her daughter, back in the early 70s. I should have taken that as an omen, and moved along, but alas, youth and hormones.....

Heard you could see the beer can labels inside the door panels on the sheet metal.

Underwood No. 5 was in most newsrooms of my time.