Year: 2025

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I love the fact that there are small grooves in the base that seem to be designed to hold a pen or pencil. 

Office set up showing a gray executive tanker desk with blue drawers and writing drawers. In the front is a brown Royal HH standard typewriter with a visually similar vintage brown metal desk lamp with art deco styling behind it. Off to the side is a box for and bottle of Isle of Sky 18 year old whisky with a double old fashioned glass nearby.

Angle down onto a brown desk lamp featuring a metallic art deco decoration. In the base of the lamp is a shallow trough with a fountain pen sitting in it. The bottom of the base has a simple black pushbutton on/off switch.

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Fletch and his Royal HH Standard Typewriters

Fletch and his Royal HH Standard Typewriters
I noticed that just like Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein in All the President’s Men, Chevy Chase portraying the titular  Fletch (Universal Pictures, 1985) has a Royal HH typewriter not only at his Santa Monica apartment, but he also has a matching one at his office at the Los Angeles Globe. 

Fletch’s Apartment Office

Standing, Fletch looks up from his desktop. Behind him in the middle of his home desk sits a Royal HH typewriter.

Fletch with a beer in hand eyes a basketball on the floor. In front of him on the desk is a brown Royal HH standard typewriter.
Interesting to note that Fletch’s home office typewriter has a POLICE sticker on it…
A still shot of Fletch's messy apartment. On the desk we see a Royal HH standard typewriter in the common brown color with a white bumper sticker on the side that reads POLICE.
This still shot from Fletch’s office at home may be my new Zoom background shot.

Fletch’s Office at the Los Angeles Globe

Fletch rolls a sheet of paper into the platen of a Royal HH standard typewriter at his office desk.

Fletch and his boss stand at Fletch's messy desk. Off to the far side we see the back of a brown Royal HH standard typewriter
At the far left of the desk, we see the tell-tale Royal Logo on a brown standard typewriter.

Meanwhile, the poor sap reporter that sits next to Fletch is left pounding away on an Underwood TouchMaster 5.

As Fletch is stealing the chair out beneath the reporter next to him, we see what appears to be an Underwood TouchMaster 5 typewriter on the poor reporter's desk.

 

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