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What Tom Hanks' typewriter shop visit says about his passions

Tom Hanks has spent so much of the last four decades becoming a familiar presence that even a small outing can feel revealing. A recent visit to a typewriter shop offered exactly that kind of glimpse, ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Tom Hanks makes good on a promise to a typewriter shop in Oregon

In this quiet shop in Southeast Portland, the room filled with these metal machines of yesteryear, for me it's the connection to the word. Anthony Volopi opened TypeSpace 4 years ago and saw success ...
KSLA

‘I feel honored’: Tom Hanks follows through on promise to typewriter shop 2 years later

PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV/Gray News) – Oscar Award-winning actor Tom Hanks has followed through more than two years after he made a promise to the owner of a typewriter shop in Oregon. Antony Valoppi owns ...
ABC7

Tom Hanks follows through on promise to gift typewriter shop owner a rare piece of history

PORTLAND, Oregon -- Actor Tom Hanks has long shared his enthusiasm for typewriters, and one person who knows this firsthand is an Oregonian typewriter shop owner named Tony Valoppi. You may recognize ...
The Atlantic

Tom Hanks Made a Typewriter App, and We've Tried It

The joke (type)writes itself: Tom Hanks—two-time Academy Award winner, beloved star of Nora Ephron rom-coms, tweeter of messages signed "Hanx"—is following the footsteps of Kim Kardashian and entering ...