Happy 70th Birthday: Smokey The Bear!

Since no one mentioned it today, it's only fitting to remember that Saturday, August 9, 2014 is Smokey the Bear's 70th Birthday!

As most US collectors will know, he was featured on a US Postage Stamp:



And the AP/CBS News even did a story about him here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/smokey-...ocial-media/

And something I didn't know:




Of course, Smokey was featured in numerous cinderellas/poster stamps through the years, several of which are outlined at this previous link:

https://goscf.com/t/7112

Remember, only YOU can prevent Forest Fires Wildfires.

A lovely stamp. I have an EFO around here somewhere, and remembered my previous post on this subject:

https://goscf.com/t/32909

Has anyone found a similar Freak?

Smokey has appeared on a number of series' of Poster stamps too.
Here are a few.....oh yes, and Happy Birthday Smokey !





Londonbus1

Rudy Wendelin was a Forest Service employee who was an artist was was considered Smokey's caretaker from 1944 to 1973. Rudy was also the designer of three stamps, the 1964 John Muir stamp, the 1969 John Wesley Powell stamp, and of course the 1984 Smokey Bear stamp.

Here is my old school copy of the handout magazine and I actually got to meet the real actual bear not just a guy in a suit (which was also there if memory serves me)...lol

I got to meet him too. It's not all that many people who remember him traveling around and going to different zoos and even a few schools.