WPM The Typewriter Shop, Philadelphia

Although typewriting may seem like a lost art, owners of W.P.M. The Typewriter Shop couldn't feel more enthusiastic about it. After all, typewriting has many practical benefits with touch typing skills and improved concentration being some of the most common. That's why at this vintage shop customer can not only browse through a variety of manual and electric typewriters, lamps, typewriter ephemera, and other curated finds but also sign up for hands-on typewriting classes. That applies to both adults—who may even remember the characteristic sound of fingers hitting the typewriter from their childhood—and kids.

Unique places like W.P.M. The Typewriter Shop call for a unique location. That's why the shop is located in Philly's one and only Mt Airy Village—the neighborhood with one of a kind atmosphere that has been studied by Harvard, talked about on Oprah and written about in Money Magazine.