Morty Comix # 2459

 

 Morty Comix # 2459 was left in a seam on a stairway between two floors at Seattle Public Library

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Buttons - Events - 1998

McCleary Bear Festival

1958-1998

Celebrating 40 years

July 10th-12th

On the curl: G.H. Stamp Works, Aberdeen, Wash.

OK, here's a local pet peeve of mine. The Bear Festival did not start in 1958. It started in 1959. But locals persist in counting an annual event as if it was human. For an event, Day One is Year One.

Yet considerable expense has been made toward printing up banners, buttons, and other promotional materials celebrating 1958 as the inaugural year of the McCleary Bear Festival. Well, it's wrong, WRONG, I tell you! You can look it up.

As you can see by the button reproduced for this McCleary Time Capsule, the 1959 page documents the first Bear Festival. It says: McCleary 1st Annual 2nd Growth Festival, 1959.

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Morty Comix # 2458

Morty Comix # 2458 was left under a box of pencils in some kind of computer lab room at Seattle Public Library

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Favorite Movie Quotes: K-Pax

"Let me tell you something, Mark. You humans, most of you, subscribe to this policy of an eye for an eye, a life for a life, which is known throughout the universe for its stupidity. Even your Buddha and your Christ had quite a different vision, but nobody's paid much attention to them, not even the Buddhists and the Christians. You humans, sometimes it's hard to imagine how you've made it this far."

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Seattle, Washington

Buttons - Events - 1997

McCleary Bear Festival

World Famous Bear Stew

July 11-12-13, 1997

On the curl: G.H. Stamp Works, Aberdeen, Wash.

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Seattle Public Library

Morty Comix # 2457

Morty Comix # 2457 was left in the freebie local weekly distribution box between the Library and Post Office

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Hallway in Seattle Public Library

Buttons - Events - 1996

McCleary Second Growth & Bear Festival

A Day in the Park

July 12, 13 & 14, 1996

On the curl: G.H. Stamp Works, Aberdeen, WA

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by Vince Ryland

Tumwater, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: Galaxy Quest

"Maybe you're the plucky comic relief. Ever think of that?"

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Morty Comix # 2456

Morty Comix # 2456 was left on the McCleary Post Office bulletin board

My contribution to the local public discourse

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Olympia, Washington

Buttons - Events - 1995

McCleary Bear Festival

July 7-8-9, 1995

On the curl: Grays Harbor Stamp Works, Aberdeen, Wash.

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Temple of Justice

Yes, that is what it is really called

Temple of Justice 

Sort of weird if you think about it. A State building called a "Temple."

Olympia, Washington

Morty Comix # 2455

Somehow the 4 pages of Morty Comix # 2455 escaped scanning, but I did record the distribution point. I was waiting for my to-go pizza at a joint in Oly's Westside, and stuffed the little guy into the waiting booth bench cushions.

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Buttons - Events - 1994

McCleary Bear Festival

World Famous Bear Stew

July 8-9-10, 1994

On the curl: G.H. Stamp Works Aberdeen, Wash.

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McCleary, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

"You've asked to me state that I am unfit to remain in the Army because I have incurred the hostility of my superior officers. I can't admit that. And I won't. I've been wearing the uniform of the United States Army most of my adult life. I've worn it with pride. But, if being a good soldier is your kind of good soldier of being unable to think for himself or say what he thinks, of being narrow and blind and insensible to a higher duty, you can have the uniform and all that goes with it. If trying to do something for your country, if fighting to correct injustice is being a bad soldier then I'm glad I'm a bad soldier. This issue goes far beyond being a good soldier and his sense of the word. It goes beyond blind obedience. It depends on a man's faith, in his knowledge of what is right. If being a good soldier is submitting, dumbly and passively to injustice, indecision, and complacency then I'm, I'm glad I'm a bad one."

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Morty Comix # 2454

Morty Comix # 2454 was left under a bench cushion in a state building.

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Ruby Beach

Buttons - Events - 1992

McCleary Bear Festival

World Famous Bear Stew

July 17-18-19, 1992

On the curl: G.H. Stamp Works, Aberdeen, Wash.