The zoo said it began working with Chicago-based Mold-A-Rama in 1984. The machines were removed in the early 1990s but zoo ...

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 ...

It’s the smell many of us remember, the warm waxy scent that’s a memory trigger of childhood, evoking recollections of school field trips to the museum, vacations to amusement parks, family outings at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For many Minnesotans, no trip to the Como Park Zoo was complete without one: a small piece of molded plastic depicting one of the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- This will bring out a lot of nostalgia for people who grew up in Chicago. The Museum of Science and Industry opens a new exhibit Thursday all about Mold-A-Rama machines. For more than ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...