We started out yesterday morning in Ohio and made our way into Indiana. I have never been in this state before, but Indiana is giving Ohio a run for its money in the municipal water storage tank game.
I had a couple antique malls mapped out in Elkhart, IN.
photo: daughter Echevarria
820 Antiques
820 N Ward St, Elkhart, IN 46516
Royal Companion used as a jewelry hanger.
Why not for sale? Are you fattening it up for…
Oh. OK.
This calls for an Emmett Kelly Sad Clown.
Let’s cleanse our palates with some other typewriters:
A very clean and sweet S-C Sterling – $45
Underwood standard – $40
Here’s the complete package: fun and terrible and somehow impressive in what it can do.
Buddy-L Easy-Writer 220 with original box – $37
Read T. Munk’s funny blog post about an Easy-Writer 300 »
Pretty Smith-Corona Sterling – $45
Around the corner in Elkhart was another antique mall.
Antiques On Beardsley
816 W Beardsley Ave, Elkhart, IN 46514
This unassuming storefront was the face of an enormous 11,000K sq ft antique mall.
Royal KMG – $65
L.C. Smith No. 8 – $60
I loved this Adler Special and the graceful paddle of a carriage return lever, but it was out of my price range:
Adler Special – $250.00
You are special.
We hit the road again and survived the truck-infested waters of I-94 south of Chicago.
Fake you out: the truck in front of us was being towed; photo: daughter Echevarria
I breathed easier once we left the big city freeways behind and again entered the green farmland of Indiana and Illinois.
photo: daughter Echevarria
I had one more antique mall mapped out for the day in Geneseo, IL, a beautiful little town with two enormous windmills.
photo: daughter Echevarria
C & S Antique Mall
705 W Main St, Geneseo, IL 61254
Pretty little Remington portable in working condition – $39
Royal KMG – $38
S-C Super Speed – $59.95
And there were a couple toy typewriters, one with the original box:
$26
$29 with original box
We hopped back in the car, crossed the great Mississippi river and entered beautiful Iowa.
photo: daughter Echevarria
photo: daughter Echevarria
myoldtypewriter 
Perhaps I’m not looking properly but I don’t remember seeing typewriters in antique shops here in the UK. Most of the ones I see are found at local auctions and are probably from house clearances. They also turn up at car boot sales from time to time.
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Here in the US there are these enormous spaces called antique malls. A collection of vendors rent booth space by the month. Shop assistants conduct sales for the vendors. It’s like a standing flea market that’s never taken down. The antique malls I have been hitting on our road trip have 50-250 vendors at a single location, and there are generally at least a few typewriters scattered through in each mall.
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Great finds at (mostly) great prices. Man, I need to branch out of Chicagoland because I usually come upon mediocre finds at high prices.
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I am sticking with antique malls very close to the interstate. I think that if I ventured further into the hinterland off the main freeways, prices might be even better.
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Much better prices in Indiana, I see. (:
Wow, $250 for that Special? I guess I shouldn’t’ve been in such a hurry to give away mine:
http://typewriterdatabase.com/1953-adler-special.6594.typewriter
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I really liked that Adler Special – it was a solid beast.
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Shame on you, 820 Antiques, for your keychopping! Shame!
I like the way the Adler is labeled “Made in Western Germany”—not yet acknowledging that there can be more than one Germany, whose western region the factory inhabits, instead of a separate country called “West Germany.”
I would have bought that Remington Rand for $39 if I had to carry it in my lap for the rest of the trip.
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That little Remington portable was pretty cute. Someone will snatch it up.
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This is lots of fun. I agree with John, the Remington Rand was a good deal. I’m glad your daughter is willing to play the typewriter-spotting game with you!
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