MR BINGLE 10" PLUSH COLLECT ORNAMENT Dillards CHRISTMAS 2014 SNOWMAN

⛄Jingle, jangle, jingle,
🎵here comes Mr. Bingle❄️
❄️With another message
from Kris Kringle,🎵
❄️Time to launch your
Christmas season,
🎵Maison Blanche makes
Christmas pleasin',
Gifts galore for you to see,
Each a gem from MB! 🎵
⛄❤️Mr. Bingle made his debut in the Maison Blanche department store windows on canal street during the 1948 Christmas season. The concept came from Emile Alline Sr, opens a new window., the display director for Maison Blanche, who pitched the mascot as a "snowdoll."
❄️ The idea was brought to life by puppeteer Edwin "Oscar" Isentrout, opens a new window. Mr. Bingle was a snow man with an ice cream cone hat and holly wings.
⛄ Mr. Bingle's name was chosen by Maison Blanche President Lewis Schwartz Jr. after a failed contest when none of the shopper submissions were deemed appropriate.❄️
⛄❄️Mr. Bingle was featured in marionette shows in the department store windows throughout the holiday season. Often Mr. Bingle would get into trouble, and Santa would have to get him out of it.  The shows were so popular that according to a 1949 Times Picayune, opens a new window article, "Two uniformed men were required to help get adults aside so children could see the Bingle show" on Canal Street. In 1949 Maison Blanche began manufacturing plush Mr. Bingle's for purchase and installed a giant 50 by 35 foot figure on the exterior of its flagship store. The figure was built in Chicago and it took two train cars to transport the giant Mr. Bingle to New Orleans. Eventually Mr. Bingle would also appear in his own televised holiday specials. ❤️⛄❄️
PRE-ADORED & DISPLAYED, GENTLY CHERISHED ITEM COMES FROM A NON SMOKING HOME. NO RIPS HOLES OR STAINS OR ODOR.
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