Balloon Animals

The world of balloon entertainment, by Dale Obrochta

Archive for the ‘Chicago Balloon Entertaining’

Dale says, “No” to Movie Premier

Representatives from Paramount Pictures contacted me this past week and wanted to know if I would entertain at four theaters premiering their new kids movie, “How to Train Your Dragon”.  Set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, and based on the book by Cressida Cowell. The action comedy tells the story [...]

Train Theme Restaurant with Balloons

Bring the family out to see Magical Balloon-dude Dale at Choo Choo Johnny’s of Frankfort, IL.  Choo Choo Johnny’s is a family-oriented restaurant with a theme that is popular among the children and adults: model trains! Kids will sit at the counter and watch the train travel around the counter delivering food to customers.  Magical [...]

Anybody for Ice Cream?

Sometime kids get a little confused when ordering their balloon animals and mistakenly take me for a waiter.  This girl want an ice cream, so I made her a ice cream sundae.  This was an all day sundae with out the brain freeze. To make an ice cream sundae right, you need chocolate and caramel [...]

Christmas Party at Clifford Law Offices

Magical Balloon-dude Dale will be performing his comedic balloon entertainment Clifford Law Offices annual Christmas party on December 14, 2008 at Rosewood of Rosemont.  This is a private event for employees of Clifford Law Offices.

Gathering Crowds like Elvis

As I reflect back on my childhood and remembering watching the old Elvis Presley movies after school. I think back to how many of his movies required Elvis to draw attention to an event. Elvis would call for a crowd to gather — He would start singing and people crowded around. Many times I feel I [...]

New Years Eve 1996 TV Interview

I finally converted this VHS recoding to a DVD. I was working for Chicago’s Navy Pier on New Years Eve 1996 and was interviewed by James Ward, ABC Channel 7 Food Critic for their ABC Rock’n New Years Eve Party. When this aired later in the evening I was already at a New Years Eve [...]

Orland Park Entertainment Guide

I made to the cover of the Entertainment Guide for Orland Park, IL and it was mailed to over 50,000 houses. The picture was taken at 2007 Taste of Orland. The bad part is that nowhere in the flier does it say that I will be there this year. One of my regular customers at [...]

Balloon Pictures From My Portfolio

I was organizing the pictures on my computer and came across these pictures. I haven’t seen them in a while.

Having Fun with Balloons at the Chicago White Sox Parade

Throughout the years the Chicago White Sox’s have had parades for select fans to march around the US Cellular infield. For the past 2-years I have been performing my kid’s balloon entertainment at the pre-game activities. Since getting my new digital camera, I have been bringing it with me and at this particular event some [...]

The Run to Remember

This past weekend I participated in the Chicago’s Run to Remember, which is a 5K run – walk for police office’s wounded or killed in the line of duty.  While walking to the event I passed a series of Chicago Police cars.  The 1967 CPD car caught my eye just because of the year.  I [...]