While cruisin’ around the world wide web on my virtual rollerblades, I ran into this little bit of weirdness. On January 7th in 1942 (January 7th, being my birthday oddly enough); T.W. Smith Jr, the owner of Sun Rubber Company in collaboration with designer Dietrich Rempel launched one of the creepiest things ever. On this day the Mickey Mouse gas mask for children was born with the blessings of Walt Disney. There were about 1,000 of these produced, and thankfully never had to be used. To be honest, I would give my left nut to have one of these.

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