I remember taking a combination of buses and trains for almost three hours each direction to get from Hyde Park, Chicago to the Montgomery Ward in Oak Lawn to get a Coleco Adam daisy wheel printer ribbon.
While I was there, I had dinner at Chi-Chi’s which was better than the Jewish run El Lugar on 55th.
A ribbon for an Adam printer! I see you are also a person of culture. (And probably close to my age, as I remember standing in line at the local K-mart waiting for them to open so that I could get my $50 TI 99-4A computer on black Friday, and remember traveling across town to get an Atari 5200).