Eighty-One.

By Michael - November 18th, 2009

The Mouse turned eighty-one today, by the Disney company’s reckoning that sets his birthday at November 18th, 1928. Mickey’s so ubiquitous in our culture that it’s hard to imagine a time when nobody knew his name, but with this as in many things it’s fun to look at the calm before the storm – when the momentous things to come were mere sails on the horizon:

From The Washington Post, January 6th, 1929

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November 18th, 2009 | Tags: Mickey Mouse, Steamboat Willie, Walt Disney Category: Disney History, Walt Disney & Family | Email the author

3 comments to Eighty-One.

• Michael

  November 19, 2009 at 1:37 am · Reply

  Turns out, BTW, that while she’s slightly less known that Mickey, Colleen Moore was a pretty big deal. Read the trivia section. Pretty wild.

  My favorite picks from her filmography: Why Be Good?, Synthetic Sin, Naughty But Nice, Twinkletoes, Slippy McGee (!), His Nibs, Her Bridal Night-Mare, The Egg Crate Wallop, The Busher, A Hoosier Romance, and, of course, Flaming Youth. And Oh, Kay! just because I’m not exactly sure how a silent adaptation of a Gershwin musical would work.

• android.dreamer

  November 19, 2009 at 10:10 pm · Reply

  In a parallel universe, we would be celebrating Oswald the Rabbit’s birthday.

• philphoggs

  November 20, 2009 at 7:38 pm · Reply

  Ub and Walt, I’m sure they were proud and would still be. Walt said that he and Mickey were inseparably intertwined, and thats the way I see it too. Not a clown, not a superhero, but an honest Joe whose determination and persistence payed off. I guess that’s why at the risk of being stiff I fret over incarnations of Mickey with any thing less. A oft heard quote ” Mickey would never do that “.
  But maybe Oswald would……