Before Syd, Before Courtney Love..

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My first crush was Annette Funicello. Her character on Mickey Mouse Club was Darlene. I ended up marrying a Darlene who looked like Annette Funicello. Crazy but true.

Hopefully this emerged was about the time of Beach Party and not during the Mickey Mouse Club days.

My Mom has a first cousin who was a kid in the 50's, everything revolved around MMC for him from what I heard.

He ended up as a D3 wrestler. (King's Wilkes Barre). Had he spent less time pining for Annette, he might have been pinning for John Reese at Wilkes.
 

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My first crush was Annette Funicello. Her character on Mickey Mouse Club was Darlene. I ended up marrying a Darlene who looked like Annette Funicello. Crazy but true.
Um, none of the kids on the Mickey Mouse Club had characters. You married the wrong girl.

 
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Hopefully this emerged was about the time of Beach Party and not during the Mickey Mouse Club days.

My Mom has a first cousin who was a kid in the 50's, everything revolved around MMC for him from what I heard.

He ended up as a D3 wrestler. (King's Wilkes Barre). Had he spent less time pining for Annette, he might have been pinning for John Reese at Wilkes.
Nice reference! I was at most of the Wilkes College wrestling matches back in the day. They were very good and John Reese was a tremendous coach. I also had a mini crush on his daughter in kindergarten…hahaha.