PORTLAND, Oregon -- Actor Tom Hanks has long shared his enthusiasm for typewriters, and one person who knows this firsthand is an Oregonian typewriter shop owner named Tony Valoppi.

You may recognize Valoppi from a bit of press last week after he finally received an autographed typewriter from the two-time Oscar winner, more than two years after it was promised.

This all began in May 2023. One Friday afternoon, Valoppi got a call from Hanks' team that he would like to visit his shop in Portland, called The Type Space. The next day, an SUV pulled in and suddenly the "Forrest Gump" actor was standing in his store, ready to talk typewriters.

Valoppi said he started geeking out. In fact, he said he really won Hanks over when he had a special model Hanks had been searching for.

While he wa

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