This story makes us smile, so we thought we'd re-post it for Flashback Friday. It originally ran in 2020.At the end of each school year, Bay View's Korinthia Klein and Ian Weisser sit down with their ...

Nearly 60 years after they were created by a Chicago inventor, Mold-A-Rama machines can still be found all over the city - and the country - molding souvenirs in under a minute. Chicago-based inventor ...

Whenever Lydia Peñuelaz visits the San Antonio Zoo, the Alamo City native simply must bring home a piece of the past — specifically a colorful figurine from one of the zoo’s original Mold-A-Rama ...

For many Minnesotans, no trip to the Como Park Zoo was complete without one: a small piece of molded plastic depicting one of the zoo’s beloved animals, often still hot from the machine, shaped into ...

The once state-of-the-art winged spacecraft has joined Mold-A-Rama machines as being vintage. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — If you were a kid in the Chicago ...

The world headquarters of Mold-A-Rama Inc. is tucked inside a colorless strip of businesses in Brookfield, the kind of block so forlorn it’s hard to tell if anything is open or closed. There’s a small ...

Richard Chin, The Minnesota Star Tribune Oct 28, 2025 Oct 28, 2025 ST. PAUL, Minn. -- St. Paul’s Como Park Zoo announced some unhappy news Thursday morning that triggered a social media outpouring of ...

NASA's space shuttle reentered orbit this fall after a 15-month retirement — and this time, it was bright blue. Outlasting the real winged spacecraft by more than a decade, the new space shuttle ...

Mold-A-Rama machines have been a longtime staple in Chicago museums. Now, the nostalgic gizmos that pump out souvenirs are getting their very own exhibit. The Museum of Science and Industry is telling ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- St. Paul’s Como Park Zoo announced some unhappy news Thursday morning that triggered a social media outpouring of nostalgia-tinged sadness. It wasn’t the death of a beloved animal ...