Earlier this month, Island Books created a pop-up interactive typewriter museum for its customers.

Shop bookseller Cindy Corujo along with interns Anna Averbuj and Susan Winslow joined forces and got tapping to bring some of the store’s multitude of typewriters that they’ve fixed up into the spotlight.

They took owner Laurie Raisys’ summer typewriter camp suggestion and gave it a twist. For the past 30 years, customers have donated 75 typers from every manufacturing era to Island Books and the trio displayed 22 of them in the museum space for a limited time.

Corujo said the museum also featured manuals, books about typewriters, all kinds of typewriter memorabilia (including liquid paper/correction fluid) and plenty of typing paper.

They suggested some prompts for people on their typing trek: Six-word memoirs, ascii art, races and self-timed typing tests. There were also contests, a typewriter spotting challenge and a typewriter terminology wordsearch, Corujo said.

Corujo said the hands-down star of the show was an early IBM Selectric. The donator from Walla Walla painted it cherry red in the 1970s because she didn’t like the original beige color.

Raisys said her team put together the cool event while she was on vacation. They have since taken down the museum but have kept a wall filled with a ton of typewriters, the owner said.