Typing at the Sign Museum

The American Sign Museum is ten minutes away from my house, but I'd never gotten around to a visit until my friend Sam and I were invited to type poems for guests at a bat mitzvah party there last night.The museum is bigger than I'd expected. You feel like you're walking down streets that are crowded with advertising icons and neon.Sam and I were very impressed with a display of glass panels from a Victorian artist's "specimen book." These are only about six inches across, and they show unbelievable craft.A movie theater marquee advertised Naomi's bat mitzvah ...... and tables were set up for a hundred guests. I hadn't been expecting such a big event!My Voss and Sam's Remington were on duty for four hours. (The Remington is a 1923 machine that I offered through Urban Legend Typewriters over a decade ago. It's still going strong.)Once the guests arrived, we got a steady stream of muses, mostly small kids who wanted poems on topics such as Pumpkin the Cat, Ajax the Dog, soccer, and…