...Mickey Mouse Club

Mickey Mouse
Oct 26, '07 2:30 AMfor everyone
Like, literally. The club, way back 1977. I was obssessed. Nothing else existed but the New Mickey Mouse Club. This is the original postcard I received from Buena Vista productions handling Disney everything. The show was shown only for a year here in the Philippines and I was in elementary then, 1970s, every 5 in the afternoon, for 30 minutes. A nuclear bomb wouldnt have made me turn the tv off whenever the show was on. I love everything Mickey Mouse. by the way, the image on the left is a scanned one of the original I have kept all these years. At the back is the usual bla bla bla, "Thank you Astrid for expressing interest bla bla bla..." (even at 9 years old I was bit of disappointment at such a generated response, but what the heck...I LOVE THEM!!!)I could still name them all.

And this is KELLY PARSONS..my FAVE!!! I have mentioned in my letter to them that I just love Kelly so they attached a black and white photo of her with the postcard. Nothing at the back though. My classmates couldnt believe I actually wrote to Disney. During the 25th anniversary of Disneyland, my uncle Dodoy from L.A. send me thru mail a giant stuffed Mickey Mouse doll! As in Giant, huge!!! I still have it and have given it to Alyssa. My one ambition back then was, no, not to go to Disneyland, to have those mouse ears. Now the simpliest costs $11. But none was sold here. One weekend while my mommy and I were in Cebu (we were scheduled to go home that night...we surprisingly saw Mickey Mouse ears displayed at Plaza Fair downtown Cebu!!! It was a fake but I just had to have it and mommy knew how important those ears were for me. She asked to speak with the manager but the ears were not for sale. It was just on display. but mommy just wouldnt take no. We waited 5 hours for the owner of Plaza Fair!!! We stayed in the office for 5 hours just to beg for those ears!!! And as my mommy worked her magic, 20 minutes after talking to the owner, we came out of Plaza Fair with my precious Mickey Mouse ears. I was probably the only one in Ormoc who had those. I had...no, I STILL HAVE those ears, the view master, vacumn cleaner, trumpet, tshirt in a box and i plan to give them to the kids when they're bigger. 2 years ago, my friend Guada of CX texted me that she was in Disneyland, LA, and asked if I wanted something. I asked for a pair of mouse ears. And so she did, and I gave them to Alyssa. I have originally planned to go as Paris Hilton from prison, complete with orange shirt and blonde wig and make up for Halloween tomorrow. But Alyssa asked that I be a mouseketeer...Thus, the picture below.