1930's Mickey Mouse Club Theater ad

In the 1930's the original Mickey Mouse Clubs sprang up across America. At one point it was impossible for Walt's organization to keep up with all the charters. These clubs would meet locally in movie theaters, elect a Mickey and Minnie Mouse to lead them, sing the song Minnie's Yoo Hoo, and watch Mickey Mouse cartoons. They were sort of a Boy Scouts type club with members known as "Mickey Mice" and some continued to meet regularly right into the 1960's! The Mickey Mouse Clubs celebrated the American values that Walt Disney filtered into everything he created.

Mickey Mouse club creed:

I will be a square shooter in my home, in school, on the playgrounds, wherever I may be.
I will be truthful and honorable and strive always to make myself a better and more useful little citizen.
I will respect my elders and the aged, the helpless and children smaller than myself.
in short, I will be a good American.

Mickey Mouse club pledge:

Mickey mice do not swear, smoke, cheat or lie,

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