Duckburg and Mouseton

[Mattias Hallin]

At 16.33 +0300 03-04-27, timo ronkainen wrote:
>Mattias:
>>from various clues and references in the 1930s Gottfredson comics, 
>>that Mickey's home was somewhere on the Eastern seaboard of the 
>>United States.
>
>Quite interesting! Can you be more specific? What kind of clues he gave?


Here are a few...


On a seaboard: In "Captive Castaway" (1934), there's a scene where a 
ship with Mickey on board steams into port under the heading "Home at 
last".

In the eastern United States: e.g. "The Bat Bandit of Inferno Gulch" 
(1934) where Mickey and gang travels west to get to the western parts 
of the US, on a train called the the "Western Limited", and then to 
go back home gets on another train called the "Eastern Special". 
Furthermore, the conductor on the second train tells the passengers 
how the bat bandit has been caught: "They say a little feller f'm the 
East half his size run 'im ragged and then licked the shirt off'n 
'im"!

It thus seems fairly conclusive to me that Mickey can hardly be 
living in Calisota on the US Westcoast...

All the best,

/Mattias

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