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CIRCA
- 1957
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SIZE -
9.50" x 13.5"
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PRICE GUIDE
- $75.00 - $125.00
Very Good -
Excellent
Condition
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In 1956, Harold D.
Youngman approached Mickey Mantle about
leasing and operating a Holiday Inn
hotel in Joplin, Missouri. It was
agreed that Mickey would be named the
president of the Mickey Mantle Motel
Corp., the Holiday Inn, and Youngman
would be the vice president. The hotel
opened for business on January 10,
1957.
Mickey brought up the Holiday inn during his induction into the Hall of
Fame speech.....
..... "I don't know if all of you
have ever heard about any of my
business endeavors or not, but some of
'em weren't too good. Probably the
worst thing I ever did was movin' away
from Mr. Youngman. We went and moved to
Dallas, Texas, in 1957, but Mr.
Youngman built a Holiday Inn in Joplin,
Missouri, and called it Mickey Mantle's
Holiday Inn. And we were doin' pretty
good there, and Mr. Youngman said, 'You
know, you're half of this thing, so why
don't you do something for it.' So we
had real good chicken there and I made
up a slogan. Merlyn doesn't want me to
tell this, but I'm going to tell it
anyway. I made up the slogan for our
chicken and I said, 'To get a better
piece of chicken, you'd have to be a
rooster.' And I don't know if that's
what closed up our Holiday Inn or not,
but we didn't do too good after that.
No, actually, it was really a good
deal."
This Mickey Mantle's Holiday Inn Hotel laminated placemat was made by MILAPACO -
Milwaukee Lace Paper Company. Another
with the same designed has a scalloped
edge, and is not laminated. There is
also another variation with yellow and
green print. Below is a Mickey Mantle's
Holiday Inn postcard, and Hotel cocktail
napkin with the same design as the
placemat.
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Mickey Mantle's Holiday
Inn Laminated paper
placemat |
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| Mickey Mantle's
Holliday Inn Postcard |
Mickey Mantle's Holiday
Inn Cocktail Napkin Back |
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