While camping at the funky Sierra Circles sculpture garden/pottery studio/winery, this past weekend, we came across an old Linotype machine hanging out in a field—one of 40+ presses that once existed there, before most were sold to China for scrap. Here’s a tiny gallery I captured:
This reminded my wife to share with me a cool two-minute portrait of America’s last newspaper still printed on the old gear:
Really neat video. I passed through the town in the Fall on my way to the San Juan’s for Fall photos. I will stop next time to see the man and his machine and maybe get some video of my own.
Very cool! Please share if you do.
Pretty cool! Obviously the paper is a labor of love—with 440 clients he can’t be making much of a living. He’s almost in the position of a daguerreotype photographer: a workable technology that produces the intended results. But the labor intensity! Stay safe, be well. Nice photos of the Linotype machine you found BTW.