Found Type Friday #38 (Ace Jet 170)

It's a backlog clearing Found Type Fest!

Brad's in the finely named West Texas town of Clarendon. The place to buy your top-soil.

Ages ago Loïc sent me shots of his favourite cook book, l'antisteak, "The food is as pop as the pictures...and sometimes the author gives the advice to throw the meat away and drink the wine that was supposed to be used for the sauce. It was published in 1970, and Gösta Claesson did the pictures."

Gray's been to Corfu.

Claas in Copenhagen explains these, "Rummaging through a box of old books at my girlfriends' parents, we took some paperbacks from the 60's/70's with us...The publishing company dtv is kind of "the German Penguin" and they still keep with the same concept for the covers, only the text layout itself has recently undergone some treatment (not only to the best, i dare say)...all covers "to this day" are designed and illustrated by the same person, Celestino Piatti."

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Mike from Hayward explains his love of this type, "In March, 2002, I was in England on business and stayed in a hotel near Heathrow for two of my six nights in the country. My first day there was the only one which allowed any "tourist" time, so I took the Underground into London, rode the red double-decker buses around, then got on the train headed back to Heathrow and my hotel. The train broke down and we were forced to walk through Hounslow East to a bus stop, then take the bus back towards Heathrow. This big gray building with chrome type was my landmark because I had passed it getting the the hotel in the first place. I just love the type and the name of the place." (By the way Mike, my apologies, last week I referred to you by your last name).

And finally, Vicki's been on a barge, "I went on a canal trip recently (in Rugby - oh, the glamour) and managed to take a few pics of the passing boats' panels that weren't too blurry (those things seem to suddenly speed up when you're trying to auto-focus)...none of them are too perfect, they must be one of very few signs that are still routinely hand-painted. And 'Electron' has to be the geekiest name for a boat ever."

Very big thanks to everyone for taking the time to send your found type.

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