Happy Ray Rayner's birthday 🎂

Ronald

Happy Ray Rayner's Birthday!

Ronald McDonald (McDonald's used to be #1)

The Ray Rayner show

Cuddly

Bozo's Circus

It's Ray Rayner's Centennial Birthday!

Chicago Kid's books

Even as a kid, I was fascinated about how television shows were made. I was going through my stacks and stacks of Chicago Kid's TV stuff and came across these books. I checked them out of the library at Stony Creek School (Kindergarten-6th grade) repeatedly. These aren't the actual copies from my school. In Ray's book he says 400,000 people watched his show. Bozo's Circus, The Ray Rayner show, etc. were the biggest shows on the planet to me during that period. In Chicago, we had some amazing local TV! You had to be there to appreciate it. #wgntv #bozoscircus #therayraynershow #garfieldgooseandfriends #bjanddirtydragon

WGN had a great 2 hours on tonight!

They are re-broadcasting Sunday Feb, 24th at Noon!

February 17th at 7 PM WGN-TV

A two hour special featuring 1960's segments of Bozo's Circus will air Sunday February 17th!

Ray Rayner says Happy Thanksgiving too!

Here is Ray as Ronald

WGN-TV BOZO'S CIRCUS 1960S HOME MOVIES / NEWSREEL FOOTAGE (My pal Mark Christiansen shared this with me)

Ray Rayner made a good Oscar Madison

Garfield Goose and friends

www.patrickowsley.com

Ronald McDonald puppet theatre

Thankful to have this!  I love the graphics and this was when Ray Rayner was playing the famous Ronald McDonald :)   I remember going through a drive-thru with my dad in the early 1970's and getting one of these theatres, which I loved!   I always loved the plastic hand puppets.   The graphics on this one are better than the one I had many years ago.

Watching the MOUSE ON THE MAYFLOWER DVD with bumpers and commercials made me think of the old theatre I had :)

RAY RAYNER

 

 Ray was a legend in Chicago Television and here are just a few of the roles he played...

 

 I spoke with my friend Bill Jackson (pictured here with Ray) yesterday :)

Since Ray was in the McDonald's commercial as Ronald, I thought I would celebrate his life in pictures :)