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The Olivetti Typotel: Hunt 'n Peck Hospitality. Here we see the Olivetti Typotel's convention center. In
the vision of the architect (God, I hate having to write this), those masonry blocks beneath the balcony in front are supposed to evoke the "keyboard" of the "typewriter."The big, shiny dome, I think, is
supposed to represent one of those "type balls" found in high-end electric typewriters of the early 1980s. But, wait a minute. Only IBM typewriters had those, didn't they? Olivetti typewriters didn't have those, did they?
Could this have been a collaborative project? (Turns out we were wrong about this. A recent message from Albert Johnson explains why.) Caption: (Repeats caption on front of card.)
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