McKinley High School that Walt Disney Attended POSTCARD Chicago Postmark 1911 for Sale

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McKinley High School that Walt Disney Attended POSTCARD Chicago Postmark 1911 For Sale

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McKinley High School that Walt Disney Attended POSTCARD Chicago Postmark 1911:
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McKinley High School that Walt Disney Attended POSTCARD Chicago Postmark 1911 McKinley High School that Walt Disney Attended POSTCARD Chicago Postmark 1911

Historic Walt Disney Treasures from Saturday\'s Toys presents... a vintage postcard from 1911 featuring Chicago\'s McKinley High School

Located at the corner of West Adams and South Horne in Chicago, this was the school where Walt Disney got his earliest art experience as an illustrator for school\'s magazine, \"The Voice.\"

In 1911, after the Disney family left their farm in Marceline, Missouri and returned to Kansas City, Walt Disney attended the Benton School and graduated in 1917. While his parents moved to Chicago to begin working for the O-Zell Company (jelly and beverage factory). Walt finished the summer in Kansas City and gained work experience with the family newspaper route and also began working with the railroad. As the summer of 1917 came to an close, he reunited with his parents in Chicago and enrolled at McKinley High School as a freshman. He attended only one year before getting a job in the Chicago post office while waiting for an opportunity to serve with the Red Cross American Ambulance Corps as World War I came to an end. After those early experiences, Walt never returned to high school but his art / animation career began in earnest... until he left the mid-west in 1923 to explore his opportunities in the rapidly expanding entertainment industry in Los Angeles, California.

As such, McKinley High School was a pivotal time for Walt. His aptitudes shifted from the varied interests of boyhood to those of an enterprising young man ready to find his own unique place in this world. Needless to say... his freshman year at McKinley... combined with the first opportunities providing for his art and illustrations to be published (in the school\'s monthly magazine)... would forever change the course of the entertainment industry. 100 years later... it\'s hard to imagine what the world would have been like without the twentieth century\'s greatest storyteller: Walt Disney

As for McKinley High School, the school closed in 1954 but the building has been renovated several times and once again serves the community as Chicago Bulls College Prep School.

The card was published by Franklin Post Card Company in Chicago, Illinois and was printed in Germany. Includes cancelled one cent stamp featuring Benjamin Franklin (perforated on all four sides). Postmarked from Chicago on April 2, 1911.

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