Evans Typewriter Company Collection

With an Art deco angle, one grows increasingly aware of the beauty that can be found in the Royal brand typing machines. This collection is intended to celebrate the success of both machine and business.

“My father, Ray Evans, opened Evans Typewriter Company on E. Sandusky St. a few doors off Main in 1939. A couple of years later he moved to S. Main across from what is now Hancock Hotel. A few years later, he moved into the store at the corner of Cory and Crawford (former Lynn Lyon appliance store) across from the side of the Methodist church, and renamed his store Evans Office Equipment Company.

He was in business for well over 50 years. Did YOU buy a typewriter from Evans?

Ray Evans moved to California (three of his four children were there) at the age of 90 and died in 2012 a few months after he turned 100.

The building is gone now, as are the car dealers and lumberyard nearby, but some of you reading this probably washed your cars and then drove by my dad’s store to admire your handiwork in the reflection of his plate glass windows!

Ray Evans was a Findlay business legend in the second half of the 20th century!” —Paul Evans to the Facebook Group, Love Findlay History