Jonathan Swanberg spends his weekdays in Lawrence as a KU math major before heading home for the weekends to Leawood, where he runs a typewriter repair business that’s in high demand throughout the Kansas City metro area.
Swanberg, 21, is a junior studying to teach high school math. He also aims to keep typewriters accessible to people for decades to come, and to introduce typewriters into the ever-growing art scenes of Lawrence and Kansas City.
He opened his business at the end of 2023, influenced by the owner of Typewriter Chicago, Lucas Dul, who’s only a few years older than Swanberg. Dul went from fixing typewriters in his parents’ basement to having his own storefront in Chicago…