Happy Birthday Mickey!

[Tent Camping Mom]

Mickey Mouse turns 80 today! Steamboat Willie, released November 18, 1928 was the first time Mickey was introduced to an audience.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICKEY!

[2goofycampers]

Happy Birthday Mickey, don't forget it was all started by a mouse.

[clkelley]

WooHoo!!! Happy Birthday Mickey!!!

[Mmketeer]

Wahoo! Happy Birthday Mickey!!
....."it all started with a mouse."

[BigDaddyRog]

Walt was going to originally call him MORTIMER MOUSE.....but thank god his wife talked him into MICKEY, because she thought Mortimer was too stuffy. Walt didnt let go of the Mortimer name though....Mortimer became the name of one of the early "hooligan" mice in his cartoons.


from ultimatedisney.com

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"Mickey's Rival" (1936) (8:18)

Minnie's old sweetheart Mortimer Mouse shows up and vies for her attentions while intruding upon her picnic with Mickey. Mortimer proves to be a most formidable foe for his fellow mouse with his practical jokes and bull-taunting. This short has the most "classic" feel of any on the disc, perhaps in part because it is the oldest and longest on the disc. It introduces Mortimer (which, as widely known, was the original name Walt devised for Mickey), a character who was revisited earlier in this decade in original shorts created for "Mickey Mouse Works" and "House of Mouse."


And the name was also used as Minnie's Uncle in the Mickey Mouse comic strips in the early 1930s....
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[Born 2 Fish]

Happy Birthday Big Guy !


Great info , Rog ! :thumbsup2

Did you know that every time Mickey has a birthday, he goes fishing !


At least thats my story, amd I'm stick'n to it.

[BigDaddyRog]

Works for ME!!!!!