1946: PRIOR TYPEWRITER COMPANY

Were it not for my mandatory course in typing that was a requirement for my "MOS" in the U.S. Army Security Agency those many years ago, I would never have become proficient as a typist.
I learned to type while in school up in Fort Devens Massachusetts, familiarizing myself with the keyboard and tapping out keys in time with John Phillip Sousa marches which were played over the speakers in the classroom. I will be eternally grateful to Uncle Sam for teaching me to type. I have obviously transferred that talent over to the personal computer, where I still maintain a pretty good touch typing speed. The typewriter! Rapidly descending into the realm of the passenger pigeon. There are still "hard liners" who love and treasure the rapidly vanishing office appliance. In fact, I know of a couple folks who still favor the old manual typewriter. The Prior Typewriter ad above is from a 1944 World War II Trenton Times. As can be seen in the ad, Prior was a popular old time Trenton typewriter company. Today, Tony Nami's Prior-Nami Business Systems carries the historic heritage of Trenton's well known Prior Typewriter Company, carrying the name proudly at its modern Hamilton Avenue location in Hamilton.