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“Th ey’re not that easy to fi nd, and I get them every which way
you can imagine — short of robbing graves,” Rogow said. “I’m
not a hipster and I’m not a poet, but it’s important to me.”
Rogow’s love of typewriters was sparked at age 7, when she
played with one to pass the time while visiting Aunt Sadie and
Uncle Izzie’s house. Growing up in Los Angeles, Rogow attended
Wilshire Boulevard Temple, the city’s oldest Jewish congrega-
tion. She said the classes there, and the values instilled from her
Jewish home life, had a part in making her who she is today.

While she loved her teachers at the synagogue, she struggled
with the language class.

“I wasn’t a very good Hebrew student,” Rogow said. “And the
Hebrew teacher told my mother that I was the number one stu-
dent in the class — from the bottom. And my mother, who was a
master schoolteacher, had the good sense not to care.”
Rogow went on to graduate from the UCLA School of Th eater,
Film and Television with the intention of going into public aff airs
TV. But a job off er launched her career into the world of design-
ing museum exhibits, and she ran a business specializing in that
for 14 years called Rogow and Bernstein.

In 1991, she moved to Philadelphia with her son, Doug, to
serve as vice president for public programming at the Academy
of Natural Sciences. It was three years later that she moved into
the corner property in Mt. Airy.

Th e residence was a former apothecary, then Edelson’s Bakery
and later the home and studio of the artist Jimmy Lueders. It
became Rogow’s home and eventually the base of operations
for Moving Arts of Mt. Airy, a movement studio she started for
hosting classes to the community.

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At one point, Rogow shared her space with Bryan Kravitz,
who ran his store, Philly Typewriter, in the building. When he
moved to a new location in South Philadelphia, Rogow decided
to open up a typewriter shop of her own to fill the newly found
vacancy in the vicinity.

“Coming out of the museum field, of course I have an appre-
ciation for industrial design. Each of these machines is made of
hundreds of parts,” Rogow said. “It’s a relic. It’s got that vintage,
historical part that appeals to me.”
Jennifer Kinka is the owner of The Nesting House, a children’s
boutique located on the same street. This week, the community gar-
den on Rogow’s property opened, another example of her impact on
the area. Kinka described her neighbor as generous and community-
oriented, with her shop being right at home in Mt. Airy.

“I appreciate the vision,” Kinka said. “It fits in with the idea
that people in this neighborhood appreciate things that are
timeless.” Today, the grandmother of two is in her 60s and enjoys
visiting with her customer base, which she described as mainly
hipsters, poets and the nostalgic.

“Some of them [buy typewriters] for the look and the style,
but a lot of them because they are tuned into analog and a tactile
experience and have an appreciation for style as well,” Rogow
said. “More care often goes into writing when you don’t have to
say, ‘Well, I can cut and paste later, I can delete later, I can post-
pone critical thinking.’ And this machine, every single stroke
matters. You really have to concentrate.” l
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