Warner's Egyption Mickey Mouse Club

Black text on an off-white background with an image of Mickey Mouse in the center. 

Before the Mickey Mouse Club television show, there was an actual Mickey Mouse Club—a club for young fans of all things Disney. The club held its inaugural meeting in the Elsinore Theatre in Salem, Oregon on December 21, 1929, and attracted over 1000 young people. By the 1930s, the club had over 1 million members. The Warner’s Egyptian theater opened on May 6th, 1925. It showed films and acts of vaudeville on stage. Founded and operated by Henry Warner in Pasadena, CA, it had no relation to the Warner Brothers. It was renamed Uptown Theater in 1936 and was closed in the early 1980s. 

The Mickey Mouse Club show debuted on ABC in 1955 and featured a regular cast of teenagers who performed skits and musical numbers. These performers were known as Mouseketeers, and they became instant celebrities, as would their successors in the numerous revivals of the show. Mickey Mouse Club had several iterations, relaunching in 1977, 1989, and 1994, with the most recent revival kick-starting the careers of global superstars like Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Ryan Gosling. 

While the first run of the Mickey Mouse Club ended in 1959, the original logo for the show is still in wide use, appearing regularly in Disney-branded products. 

Click here, here, and here to see other Mikey Mouse Club buttons held by the Button Museum.