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March 19, 2010
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Unplanned Obsolescence

Typewriter repair fading away.

by James Leonard

posted 12/28/2009

The last typewriter repair shop in Ann Arbor is located in a nondescript single-story office building on Collingwood. But the folks at M & M Typewriter Service don't actually do the repairs themselves: they contract them out to Jim Carson, the last local practitioner of that once-valuable trade. Sadly, Carson doesn't get to practice it much these days. "Most

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