Here's a commercial from 1980 that shows, regardless of whether you call it Marshall Field's or Macy's, that department store sold a lot of stuff we wouldn't want to buy in the first place. No Pierre Cardin for us, por favor. more ›

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 ›

It was 30 years ago, almost to the moment of this post, that John Hinckley opened fire on President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton Hotel. There will be plenty of retrospectives and recaps and mentions of Jodie Foster in the press today (which we're sure she's thrilled about) but only FuzzyMemories can bring that coverage back home to Chicago. 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 ›