<\/p>\n“Hi, I’m Mickey, and this is my brother Mickey, and this is my other brother Mickey, and this is my third brother Mickey…” A bizarre and almost certainly unauthorized French school folder from the 1930s.<\/p>\n
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Your two favorite cartoon stars — Felix the Cat and Mickey Mouse — together on this Spanish-language (Mexican?) shopping bag from the 1930s. From what I can make out, it was for a glassware and pottery store.<\/p>\n
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“Born on a mountain top in Tennessee, met Woody Woodpecker when he was twenty-three…” Disney’s greatest star (after Annette) of the 1950s meets Walt Lantz’s greatest star of every year from 1940 onwards. (Like all fine phonograph albums, this one is Bozo approved.)<\/p>\n
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Now that’s a picture of a man saying “Now that’s a corned beef sandwich!” From Miami Beach’s Wolfie’s Coffee Shop which (like its sister business Wolfie Cohen’s Rascal House Restaurant) is a veritable temple to mystery art.<\/p>\n
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Here’s an image from the paper sacks handed out at a newsstand in Brookline, Mass. I always wondered what Fred MacMuray would have looked like with an awe-inspiring afro; now I know.<\/p>\n
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