Do you remember these from childhood?
Mold-A-Rama-Rama! The Secrets Behind Chicago's Plastic Souvenir Empire
Mold-A-Rama... made in Chicago
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, Jun 01 2025 04:16 PM
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Posted 01 June 2025 - 04:16 PM
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That's thirty minutes away. I'll be there in ten.
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Posted 02 June 2025 - 06:52 AM
The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn still has a few in operation.
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Posted 02 June 2025 - 09:02 AM
Interesting. I never saw one of those. Might not have made it out to the suburbs. When I was real little, our next door neighbor worked for Seeburg, in their arcade and slot machine division. ( his first job was designing juke boxes ) He would bring machines home and set them up in their family room, and have the neighborhood kids come over and play on them for free. Cheap product testing, I would guess. They sure had a lot of different types of machines.
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Posted 02 June 2025 - 10:08 AM
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Posted 02 June 2025 - 02:17 PM
Been a long time since I have been there. And that was when I was working on the Museum and Santa Fe o-scale model railroad exhibit. I didn't have time to go wandering around to look at exhibits, but should have made time. Last time I was there just as a tourist, I came away with one of these.
I do have a blow molded steam locomotive that I don't remember where I got it. Could have come from the museum. Don't know where it is right now. I stopped by when they were moving the Santa Fe 2903 to Illinois Railway Museum, on a very cold winters day in 1995. But I didn't go into the museum.
