Alluring mechanical clatter will fill the event space at Changing Hands Bookstore in Phoenix this weekend.

Have you gone through a time warp and ended up in a 1950s office? No, it's just the annual Phoenix Type-In.

“It’s like a monster truck rally but with typewriters,” says Brian Goode, the event organizer. “It's a bunch of people who use typewriters and like typewriters getting together to share their experiences and try other people's machines, or try writing for the first time.”

Beginning at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27, the central Phoenix bookstore will be filled with the click-clacking of a wide variety of machines. About 100 people typically make their way to the typewriters throughout the three-hour event.

“The whole bookstore kind of shuts down whenever everyone starts typin

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