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16th June 2009

Spotted this inside of a shop called Steamboat Mickey’s, which is funny because the cartoon (the first featuring Mickey Mouse and the fist Disney cartoon with synchronized sound) was actually called Steamboat Willie - gotta capitalize on the mouse’s name when you can! Fun fact: the pictures are of Walt, Roy, their sister Ruth and their wives outside of the Disney Bros Studio in California, however everything in the store featured the Laugh-o-grams logo - one of the earliest Disney studios in Kansas City that actually went bankrupt, but is said to have provided the inspiration for Mickey. Do you think anyone but me would notice? Bigger version of the photo on the desk here.

Spotted this inside of a shop called Steamboat Mickey’s, which is funny because the cartoon (the first featuring Mickey Mouse and the fist Disney cartoon with synchronized sound) was actually called Steamboat Willie - gotta capitalize on the mouse’s name when you can! Fun fact: the pictures are of Walt, Roy, their sister Ruth and their wives outside of the Disney Bros Studio in California, however everything in the store featured the Laugh-o-grams logo - one of the earliest Disney studios in Kansas City that actually went bankrupt, but is said to have provided the inspiration for Mickey. Do you think anyone but me would notice? Bigger version of the photo on the desk here.