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Article: MICKEY MOUSE AT 60: STILL DISNEY'S STAR SALESMAN
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 2, 1988
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CopyrightCopyright 1988 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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LOS ANGELES - "Plush," declared Lenerl Sharp.
Plush?
"Mickey in plush," Sharp confirmed earnestly. "It's our best
seller. We could put 100 new plush Mickeys in the store today and
they'd all be gone within a week."
Who can doubt it? Sharp, the manager of the Disney Store at
the Del Amo Fashion Center, the largest shopping center in the
United States, was standing in the shadow of a mountain of Mickey
Mouse plush acrylic dolls, a floor-to-ceiling stockpile of
wide-eyed, big-eared Mickeys ranging in price from $8 to $275.
Which is only the beginning. Of the 2,000 or so Disney items sold
in the 4,042-square-foot store, more than 1,200 feature the
cherubic black and white face.
Once ...