30/10/2022
Disney's Kids!
While in this day and time we hear the word playmate and think of a model from PL***OY Magazine, it was not like that in the 50's.
Children's PLAYMATE was THE magazine for juvenile kids in the 50's. It was fun and educational. It had been around since the 1930's or earlier and was what 16 Mgazine, DIG and TEEN Magazine was to teenagers. You could subscribe to it and I assure you that you'd soon be asking your mom if the next issue had arrived. It contained articles on classic child stars like Shirley Temple and later on television stars like Johnny Crawford, Angela Cartwright and Rusty Hamer.
November 1957 issue of Children's Playmate magazine - "The Favorite Magazine of Boys and Girls". The yellow cover features printed photos of Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeers Lonnie Burr and Annette Funicello.
Lonnie Burr is an American entertainer best known for his work on the original 1955-1959 series run of the children’s television program The Mickey Mouse Club. Burr’s parents had worked in vaudeville as a dance team known as “Dot and Dash,” and Burr became a professional performer at five, working in television and radio. In 1955, he was hired by Walt Disney Studios to be one of the twenty four original cast members, called Mouseketeers, of the ABC network series The Mickey Mouse Club. A member of the show’s first string unit, the Red Team, Burr performed in comic sketches, musical numbers, and in the show’s Roll Call segment. After The Mickey Mouse Club ceased production in 1958, Burr worked as both an actor and director for the stage, motion pictures and television.
