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Crowd of Children Awaiting the 2:00 and Final Pip the Mouse Puppet Show for the Season
The "Pip the Mouse: The Mouse Before Christmas" stage and puppets were created by Dr. George Creegan, whose company built sixteen such shows to travel around the country during the Christmas season. The company also built puppets and/ or mechanized animals/exhibits for such places as Disney parks. But, Max Hess, owner of the famous Hess Brothers Department Store, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, persuaded Dr. Creegan to sell this one to him in 1962. The puppet show was put on during every Christmas holidayat Hess Brothers until 1995. Then, in 1996, after Bon-Ton purchased Hess's, Pip was donated and was passed along through a few organizations until the Liberty Bell Museum obtained it. I worked at Hess Brothers in the mid 1960's and saw all the holiday wonder around the store.
Crowd of Children Awaiting the 2:00 and Final Pip the Mouse Puppet Show for the Season
The "Pip the Mouse: The Mouse Before Christmas" stage and puppets were created by Dr. George Creegan, whose company built sixteen such shows to travel around the country during the Christmas season. The company also built puppets and/ or mechanized animals/exhibits for such places as Disney parks. But, Max Hess, owner of the famous Hess Brothers Department Store, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, persuaded Dr. Creegan to sell this one to him in 1962. The puppet show was put on during every Christmas holidayat Hess Brothers until 1995. Then, in 1996, after Bon-Ton purchased Hess's, Pip was donated and was passed along through a few organizations until the Liberty Bell Museum obtained it. I worked at Hess Brothers in the mid 1960's and saw all the holiday wonder around the store.