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

Ray and Chel are busy this morning!

Ray in the morning!

Cuddly Dudley for 🎄

Here are a few books I always checked out of the Stony Creek school library!

Ray Rayner made a good Oscar Madison

THE RAY RAYNER SHOW

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 :)

THE RAY RAYNER SHOW

Art by ROY BROWN from THE RAY RAYNER SHOW in this ad....