Christmas 2009, part 2:
The typewriter turned out to be broken; the carriage does NOT advance when a key is struck - you have to keep hand pressure on the thing to move it with each key. Everything else is in good shape.
Anyone who has a good idea of where in the Chicago area I might get this thing look at / fixed and back into service?
More in a later post. She’s still fascinated with the typer and using it constantly - WITH the hand work, but jeeze, I don’t want her to be stuck doing that.