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 ...

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 ...

I’m not sure exactly how old I was but I do recall that I was at my local zoo when I saw a Mold-A-Rama for the first time. The imposing coin-operated machine promised to manufacture a plastic ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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

CHICAGO -- One of my favorite things in the technology universe doesn't surf the Web or plug into your ears. The end result doesn't do anything actually, yet the process has thrilled millions of ...

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 ...

A piece of childhood nostalgia is going away at the Como Zoo and Conservatory. The zoo sharing on Facebook that the Mold-A-Rama Magic machines will be leaving the zoo in a few weeks. The company that ...

The once state-of-the-art winged spacecraft has joined Mold-A-Rama machines as being vintage. NASA's space shuttle reentered orbit this fall after a 15-month retirement — and this time, it was bright ...