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But I keep finding surprises, photos that I'd forgotten about, many of which have a story of some sort associated with them. The story on this one is nothing to write home about, but when I found this old typewriter cast off in a vacant lot where an old house had been bulldozered, it immediately reminded me of a book I'd come across many years previously. And I'm wondering whether any of you might have come across the same book at any point in your travels through life . . . the book was called "Royal Road Test", by a certain photographer named Ed Ruscha, who did it back around 1967. To cut to the chase, Ruscha and some friends drove at 90 miles an hour down a desert road in California, and threw an old Royal typewriter out of the car, while photographing the event. Many photos of the wrecked typewriter, and parts of it strewn across the desert around the impact site, were taken and published in the book. Does that ring a bell ? ( Like the return carriage bell that some old typewriters had ?) Have you ever heard of, or actually seen this book ? Looking at the internet yesterday after finding this photo in the latest batch back from the lab, I saw that copies of it sell for a few thousand dollars today. Sure wish I'd bought one cheap years ago . . . Sounds sort of fun . . . there are other objects I'd like to road test in that manner . . .
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