Tom Hanks Champions ‘Hero’ Bookshop Owner To ‘Keep Typewriters Alive’

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Typewronger Books owner Tom Hodges has a friend in Tom Hanks. Hodges, Scotland’s only typewriter mechanic, typed a letter to Hanks over the summer.

He invited the “Greyhound” star to visit his bookshop and the National Museum of Scotland’s typewriting exhibition. “There are a few typewriter geeks, such as Ben Aleshire in New Orleans and Luke Winter who has the Glasgow Story Wagon, but Tom Hanks gets the crown,” Hodges said, per BBC. READ MORE: Tom Hanks Survives The Post-Apocalypse With A Dog And A Robot In ‘Finch’ Trailer “I told him how I had run away from Edinburgh to live a Bohemian life in Paris and lived as a Tumbleweed at the Shakespeare and Company bookshop.” Hodges elaborated on his journeys. “It is a bookshop in Paris