A 5 year-old “Mikey” was portrayed by John Gilchrist along
with his two real-life brothers, Tom and Mike in 1971.

The Quaker Oats Company, known as Quaker, is an American
food conglomerate based in Chicago, Illinois. As Quaker Mill
Company, the company was founded in 1877 in Ravenna, Ohio.

In 1881, Henry Crowell bought the company and launched a
national advertising campaign for Quaker Oats.

In 1983, Quaker acquired Stokely-Van Camp, Inc., the maker
of Van Camp’s and Gatorade. In 2001, PepsiCo bought Quaker
Oats for $14 billion, primarily to acquire the Gatorade brand.

Henry Parsons Crowell (1855–1944)

Disneyland, Walt Disney’s metropolis of nostalgia, fantasy and
futurism, opened on July 17, 1955. The $17 million theme park
was built on 160 acres of former orange groves in Anaheim,
California, and soon brought in staggering profits. Today,
Disneyland hosts more than 18 million visitors a year, who
spend close to $3 billion.

    
    
Walter (Walt) Elias Disney 
(December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966)
   

The Tinkertoy Construction Set is a toy for children. It was
designed in 1914—six years after the Frank Hornby‘s
Meccano sets—by Charles H. Pajeau, who formed the Toy
Tinker Company in Evanston, Illinois to manufacture them.
Pajeau, a stonemason, designed the toy after seeing children
play with sticks and empty spools of thread. Pajeau partnered
with Robert Pettit and Gordon Tinker to market a toy that would
allow and inspire children to use their imaginations. After an
initially-slow start, over a million were sold.

The Cabbage Patch Kids doll brand set every toy industry sales
record for three years running, and was one of the most popular
lines of children’s licensed products in the 1980s and has
become one of the longest-running doll franchises in the
United States.

Cabbage Patch creator Xavier Roberts, below, copyrighted his
design in 1976 and sold the rights to company Giant Coleco in
1982. Dolls that were made prior to the Coleco handover are
worth the most.

Lloyd N. Morrisett Jr. (November 2, 1929 – January 22, 2023)

(AP) – Lloyd Morrisett, the co-creator of the beloved children’s
education TV series "Sesame Street," which uses empathy
and fuzzy monsters like Abby Cadabby, Elmo and Cookie
Monster to charm and teach generations around the world,
has died.

Morrisett’s death was announced Tuesday by Sesame Workshop,
the nonprofit he helped establish under the name the Children’s Television Workshop. No cause of death was given.