Steve Soboroff - Typewriter Collector

Steve Soboroff, an L.A. civic leader, has acquired typewriters once owned by the famous and infamous. In an era of iPads and text-spouting phones, the ancient, clunky machines have become unlikely objects of desire.

From a story in the Los Angeles Times...

The object of his fascination? Typewriters.

There's the 1932 Royal Model P that Ernest Hemingway used to write letters during his time in Cuba. There's a tiny Imperial Good Companion Model T on which John Lennon banged out song lyrics years before the Beatles invaded America.

There's the 1936 Corona Junior on which budding playwright Tennessee Williams composed his antiwar farce "Me, Vashya" for a student competition at Washington University in St. Louis. (He lost!)

"I love people who are the best at what they do," Soboroff said. "The idea that geniuses sat there and accomplished what they accomplished on these typewriters … it gives me chills."