Smokey Bear Bendy Figure (Lakeside Ind, Inc, 1967)
Vintage 1967 Smokey Bear Bendy 2019 is the 75th anniversary of Smoky Bear! Since it's already December, I thought I'd better get this posted now because celebrating the 76th anniversary of Smoky Bear just isn't as exciting. Smoky Bear was character created to promote awareness of wildfire prevention during World War II. Because so many of the men who fought wildfires were away at war, the fires posed a bigger threat than usual. As a result, the United States Forest Service created Smoky Bear in 1944 as the spokesman for wildfire prevention with his famous slogan, "Care will prevent 9 our of 10 forest fires!" Ok, so maybe they needed some time to work out a good slogan. In 1947, the slogan changed to the much more familiar, "Remember...only YOU can prevent forest fires!" Vintage 1967 Smokey Bear Bendy figure Smoky Bear was so popular that merchandise with his likeness was made for decades. Ideal produced Smokey Bear dolls star...