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The Blickensderfer Manufacturing Company was established in 1889 and quickly became famous for the Blick Model 5 typewriter – the “Five-Pound Secretary.” Introduced at the 1893 Columbian Exhibition in Chicago, the design eliminated individual type bars attached to each key and replaced them with a type wheel. The metal wheel rotated and struck the paper to create the typed letters, similar to the IBM Selectric type ball introduced in 1961. The type wheel allowed for...

Local diners are an integral part of any community, especially when the owners know how to make people from all walks of life feel welcome. Over the past sixty-five years, Curley’s Diner has had only two owners: the original “Curley, ” Herluf Svenningsen (a curly-haired blond Swede) and Maria Aposporos and her sister, Eleni Begetis.  In 1941, Svenningsen brought a former trolley car to the present site on West Park Place, replacing it in 1949...