Rick Klein at The Museum of Classic Chicago Television unearthed another treasure from Ray Rayner and Miles Showcase Theatre. more ›

Rick Klein of the Museum of Classic Chicago Television is set to air three full remastered episodes of Jerry Bishop as Svengoolie not seen in nearly 40 years. more ›

With the sudden emergence of mid-summer in Chicago this week, we take another look back at some classic Chicago television, to a Cubs game that aired on WGN on Friday, April 25th 1980. The segment, called "Faces of Wrigley", ran during the seventh inning of a Cubs Pirates game (the Cubs eventually beat Pittsburgh, 5-3). Seeing everyone wrapped up in their spring coats reminds us of a classic saying about Chicago weather: if you don't like it, wait a minute. more ›

Rick Klein over at Fuzzy Memories tipped us off to this WMAQ newsclip from 1980. With today's weather warm and breezy, it seemed like a good day for a ball game. Bonus with this clip: a young Linda Yu. more ›

Mark Kirk’s memory problems seem to get larger each week. In addition to misremembering facts about his military and environmental records, Kirk’s recollections of his days as a school teacher now appear sketchy. The New York Times reported that while Kirk loves to tout his time and experience as a teacher, his experience doesn’t add up to much. Kirk once said “as a former nursery school and middle school teacher, I know some of what it takes to bring order to class.” The Times however, pointed out that Kirk only taught one year at the Milestone School in London from 1982-1983 and worked part time for a semester at a nursery school in Ithaca, New York. The information was provided to the New York Times from the Alexi Giannoulias campaign. more ›

When we spoke with Rick Klein about his online Museum of Classic Chicago Television (colloquially known as Fuzzy Memories) for this Chicagoist interview, one of the things that was mentioned was the way that WGN-TV was barring his site from posting TV clips from the station. more ›

We first stumbled across Rick Klein's site, FuzzyMemories.TV, while we were researching a post about Christmas advertising in Chicago. After we lost a full 2 hours browsing through a ton of local video content, we knew that Klein had something amazing there. Between decades-old newscasts, ancient local commercials, and the short produced pieces called "bumpers" that ran around all of our local programming, it's possible to get a real sensation of time travel. It's as though we were sent back to when we were kids, getting out of school and camping out in front of the TV with some potato chips and cartoons. more ›

Even though it's been gone for forty-one years, folks who still went to Riverview Amusement Park speak of it with the romanticism afforded looking back at the past with rose-colored glasses. This documentary from 1984, courtesy of Fuzzy Memories, is no exception. Part two can be viewed here. more ›