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Wowwwww.
Okay, personal anecdote time. My father was a graphic artist, and he was pretty good at copying styles. When I was like 5, (meaning, this was in the early 70s), he did a couple of free pictures for my grade school. They were done on 3'x4' pieces of mat-board, or something around that size. They were these big group shots of all kinds of Disney animated characters (up to that time) in the same picture.
The school framed them and hung them in the hallway. I think -- my memory is SO fuzzy on this -- that there might have been a tiny little write-up about it in some local paper (could have just been the school paper) with a picture of me posing alongside them. I *am* sure that there's a color version of those pictures somewhere amongst our family photo collection.
By the time I got to high school, the elementary school (across the street from the h.s.) wasn't being used as a school any more, it was just admin offices for the school district; but they still had the pictures hanging in the hallway. (Aside: it was always freaky to go in there, now that all adults worked in the building, because of course it still had the old bathrooms and water fountains that were sized for grade-schoolers.) I have no idea what later became of those pictures. For all I know they're still there now, or someone might have taken them home, or I don't know, threw them away. Man, I should dig up those family photos.
Anyway, what I'm saying is -- LOL, I guess it's lucky that in the 70s, little innocuous local things like that stayed local and it was a lot harder for The Mouse to track down weird little "infringements" like that. I wonder how many other places around the country were in the same boat as that daycare center?
Okay, personal anecdote time. My father was a graphic artist, and he was pretty good at copying styles. When I was like 5, (meaning, this was in the early 70s), he did a couple of free pictures for my grade school. They were done on 3'x4' pieces of mat-board, or something around that size. They were these big group shots of all kinds of Disney animated characters (up to that time) in the same picture.
The school framed them and hung them in the hallway. I think -- my memory is SO fuzzy on this -- that there might have been a tiny little write-up about it in some local paper (could have just been the school paper) with a picture of me posing alongside them. I *am* sure that there's a color version of those pictures somewhere amongst our family photo collection.
By the time I got to high school, the elementary school (across the street from the h.s.) wasn't being used as a school any more, it was just admin offices for the school district; but they still had the pictures hanging in the hallway. (Aside: it was always freaky to go in there, now that all adults worked in the building, because of course it still had the old bathrooms and water fountains that were sized for grade-schoolers.) I have no idea what later became of those pictures. For all I know they're still there now, or someone might have taken them home, or I don't know, threw them away. Man, I should dig up those family photos.
Anyway, what I'm saying is -- LOL, I guess it's lucky that in the 70s, little innocuous local things like that stayed local and it was a lot harder for The Mouse to track down weird little "infringements" like that. I wonder how many other places around the country were in the same boat as that daycare center?
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