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	Bud Billiken Day Parade
		Harper apparently chose the name “Bud” because it was his own nickname, and “Billiken” because of its association with of an ancient Chinese mythical character believed to be the guardian angel of all children.
		By 1929 the Bud Billiken Club, with its membership cards and identification buttons, was so popular among Chicago's fl youth that Abbott decided to initiate an annual parade to celebrate it.
		Toward the late 1990s spectator estimates of the Bud Billiken Day parade, held on the second Saturday of August, ran into the millions, and the event was routinely considered one of the largest of its kind in the United States.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/175.html (296 words)

	Japan File: BILLIKEN
		Billiken, and the belief that rubbing the soles of his feet guaranteed a positive outcome, briefly won the hearts of the American people, but was eclipsed a year later by the Kewpie doll.
		Billiken first crossed the Pacific in 1909 and was immediately embraced as the second coming of Ebisu, the merchant god.
		Billiken became prominent enough at one point to increase the number of the traditional seven lucky gods to eight.
	www.japanfile.com /culture_and_society/history/Shin-Sekai-Sidebar.shtml (739 words)

	What is a Billiken: Unmasking Saint Louis University \| Saint Louis University
		It's also known that the Billiken was manufactured in the early 1900s as a bank and statuette and was the national rage for about six months -- kind of that period's pet rock.
		It is believed that Pretz found the name Billiken in a poem by the Canadian poet Bliss Carman and gave the name to her patented design, which she sold to the Billiken Company of Chicago.
		The uniting of SLU and the Billiken seems to have happened sometime between 1910 and 1911 at the height of Billikenmania.
	www.slu.edu /readstory/homepage/699 (655 words)

	77th Annual Bud Billiken® Parade and Picnic
		The Bud Billiken® Parade and Picnic is largest of its kind in the nation.
		Bud Billiken® is considered to be the protector of children.
		The Bud Billiken® Parade and Picnic is held the second Saturday in August.
	www.budbillikenparade.com /facts.htm (196 words)

	Saint Louis Billikens - The Official Athletic Site for Saint Louis University
		One of the truly unique mascots in college athletics, the Billiken is a symbol of good luck that became a national craze in the early 1900s.
		In 1908, Florence Pretz, an art teacher and illustrator in Kansas City, Mo., received a patent for her version of an ancient Asian figure — a chubby character with pixie ears, fat cheeks and an ear-to-ear grin.
		Initially manufactured as a bank and statuette, the Billiken reached its peak of popularity in 1911, when it was widely recognized as a universal symbol of good fortune.
	slubillikens.ocsn.com /trads/billiken.html (268 words)

	Saint Louis Billikens - The Official Athletic Site for Saint Louis University
		The purpose of the Billiken Club Priority Points System is to allocate priority points to individuals who have made the commitment to and investment in Billiken Athletics through the purchase of season tickets, Billiken Club donations and other restricted athletic financial support of Billiken Athletics.
		The former Billiken Club points system was not an equitable way to for an individual to be rewarded for his/her investment in Billiken Athletics.
		The Billiken Club office cannot be responsible for determining donations and ticket purchases through another party.
	slubillikens.collegesports.com /boosters/stlo-boosters-points-system.html (743 words)

	ROJ_Billiken_Collection
		The Eskimos began carving Billikens in ivory sometime between the turn or the century and the year 1913, either at Nome, Alaska, or Diomede Island.
		In 1909 the Billiken was manufactured as a coin bank and as a statuette, followed the next year by dolls.
		In 1908, a Kansas City artist received a patent for the design, and evidently the name Billiken was attached to it, because the design was purchased by the Billiken Co. of Chicago, which manufactured it as a bank, a statuette and dozens of other permutations.
	www.phoenixmasonry.org /masonicmuseum/ROJ_Billiken_Collection.htm (785 words)

	Billiken
		To bring the wooden Billiken to life--to flesh out his character, so to speak--Sakamoto cleverly has the eccentric actor Sugimoto Tetta play the spirit of Billiken (he apparently prepared for his role by sleeping with the Billiken statue every night).
		He even falls in love with a young teacher Tsukino (Yamaguchi Tomoko), but it is when the fulfillment of these wishes begins to cause problems and Billiken gets thrown out of Tsutenkaku that the tight and well-paced script begins to unravel.
		Billiken's eventual triumph is also a bit haphazard, which only reinforces the impression that Sakamoto's portrait of Shinsekai is best when it focuses on the area's communal ambiance, the peculiar but honest humanity of its collection of characters.
	pears.lib.ohio-state.edu /Markus/Review/Films96/Billiken.html (498 words)

	People's Weekly World - A message from the editor. Billiken: Only the best for kids
		Bud Billiken is a fictional character from the creative minds at the Chicago Defender newspaper.
		Billiken might also call the mayor’s plan a product of “group think,” lacking imagination.
		Billiken — a symbol of “things that ought to be” — would tell the mayor to use his imagination.
	www.pww.org /article/view/5601/1/227 (775 words)

	2004 Billiken Volleyball Schedule Released :: SLU faces six NCAA Tournament teams
		The Billikens begin the season with a match at Indiana State on Sept. 1.
		The Billikens play their final nonconference match at intra-state rival SMS on Oct. 18.
		The Billikens begin their final season of play in Conference USA with a match at Memphis on Fri., Oct. 1.
	www.slubillikens.com /sports/w-volley/spec-rel/062504aaa.html (342 words)

	Billiken
		Billiken was a cross between a god luck charm and cuddly mascot.
		Billiken was also advertised by Butler Bros.; pink or white velvet babies, 13 inches.
		Billiken boys were distributed through the world in boxes containing a sentimental poem that read in part: "Be very sure that you are good and always act just as you should: I love obedient girls and boys, I am KING of all the toys".
	www.e-z-smith.com /Billycan/index.html (1878 words)

	Rogers Arkansas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		For a few years he was all the rage, capturing hearts across the nation and around the world, a guy whose identity was adapted and adopted by various communities and cultures.
		Billiken was "born" in Kansas City, Missouri, in the mind of Florence Pretz.
		Billiken was one of the first copyrighted dolls ever made.
	www.rogersarkansas.com /museum/donationOfTheMonth/02-04.asp (923 words)

	SitNews - "Star Bowling at the Billiken" By Dave Kiffer
		But he was the big bowling star in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the Billiken was in its final frames.
		By the time it was replaced by the lanes at the Entertainment Center several years later, the ship leading to my "professional" bowling career had sailed.
		The Billiken building is now owned by the University of Alaska Ketchikan Campus.
	www.sitnews.us /DaveKiffer/050705_kiffer.html (981 words)

	What's In A Name? More Than A Parade (The Washington Post)
		But one of the biggest parties is reserved for the second weekend of August, when hundreds of thousands gather in Chicago's historic "Black Belt" to honor Bud Billiken, a mythical hero who became a symbol of pride, happiness and hope for fl residents during the bleak, segregated Great Depression.
		Historian Timuel Black said "escapism" nourished the city's fascination with Bud Billiken and the parade from the late 1920s.
		Back then, fls felt the need to escape an overtly racist society, where jobs were scarce and much of Chicago was off-limits, particularly to the poor.
	www.jessejacksonjr.org /issues/i0812025939.html (978 words)

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		Writer and historian Dorothy Jean Ray traced the Billiken to Florence Pretz, a Missouri art teacher and illustrator, who patented her "design for an image," but not the name "Billiken." Ray concludes that the name was adopted by the distributors of the likeness, the Billiken Company of Chicago.
		In 1909 the Billiken was manufactured as a bank and statuette followed by dolls the next year.
		By 1912, the Billiken and its three kinds of luck, good, better and best, were memories --memories for all except the loyal fans of Saint Louis University who to this day may wonder how their teams were named after this little bullet-headed creature of the pixie ears, grinning mouth and rotund belly.
	www.eas.slu.edu /People/BJMitchell/lbill.html (531 words)

	Saint Louis Billikens - The Official Athletic Site for Saint Louis University
		The Billiken Club is an annual charitable giving program that benefits the Department of Athletics at Saint Louis University.
		Our goal each season is to represent the University and St. Louis proudly by winning with integrity, hosting exciting athletic events, graduating our student-athletes and encouraging them to serve as role models for the next generation.
		Although Billiken Club benefits begin with a minimum contribution of $125, the club accepts all cash gifts.
	www.slubillikens.com /boosters/stlo-boosters-billiken-club.html (414 words)

	NBC5.com - Family - Gov. Says Bud Billiken 'Best Parade In State'
		The first float in the parade was a 60-foot inflated Bud Billiken, a child wearing a blue shirt with the No. 75 on the back and a book tucked under an arm.
		Always held on the second Saturday of August, the Billiken Parade is billed as the second-largest parade and the largest African-American parade in the nation.
		The Bud Billiken tradition began as a children's page in the Defender in 1923, according to parade organizer Joslyn Dipasalegn.
	www.nbc5.com /family/3655137/detail.html?z=dp&dpswid=2265994&dppid=65172 (774 words)

	NBC5.com - News - Cookouts, Good Times At 76th Annual Bud Billiken Parade
		The late Robert S. Abbott of The Chicago Defender established the Bud Billiken parade in 1929 to celebrate African-American youngsters who delivered the newspaper and sold it in the streets.
		The overwhelming success of the event gave "underprivileged children a chance to be in the limelight for one day by wearing costumes, marching in a parade and being seen," according to the Bud Billiken parade Web site.
		The grand marshals of the parade, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, waved from a red convertible at the front of the procession as the Julian Jaguar Marching Band followed.
	www.nbc5.com /news/4848520/detail.html (455 words)

	Saint Louis University Hockey Booster Club
		The purpose of the club is to support and expand the educational and athletic goals of Saint Louis University and the Billiken Hockey Club.
		As you are aware, Billiken hockey is a club sport paid for by the student athletes and their parents.
		President, B.B.C. The purpose of the Billiken Bench Club, Saint Louis University (SLU) Hockey Booster Club is to develop, expand and support the educational and athletic goals of the SLU men’s ice hockey program.
	www.sluhockey.com /booster_club.html (671 words)

	Las tapas de Lino Palacio en Billiken - Imaginaria No. 39 - 29 de noviembre de 2000
		A partir de 1943, y durante varios años, el dibujante Lino Palacio fue el encargado de realizar las tapas de Billiken, la legendaria revista infantil argentina creada por el escritor y editor Constancio C. Vigil.
		En una edición de homenaje a Billiken, la escritora Beatriz Ferro opinaba sobre el trabajo del ilustrador: "Combinaba humor, picardía y ternura y supo interpretar como pocos el mundo de los chicos.
		Reproducimos la tapa de Billiken N° 1493 (Buenos Aires, Editorial Atlántida, 28 de junio de 1948).
	www.imaginaria.com.ar /03/9/palacio.htm (535 words)

	Mainseek
		Billiken: Juegos, información para el cole, historietas, música, noticias, actividades y miles de novedades.
		Billiken) y había sido presentado como un chico muy andrajoso (su andquot;sombreritusandquot;, en...
		Billiken Club is in the Lower Level of Busch Student Center at Saint Louis University.
	www.mainseek.com /Billiken.html (182 words)

	14K Gold Heavy Billiken Cufflinks Emerald Eye
		Description: This is a fun pair of 14K gold cufflinks with crowned Billikens, c.
		Billikin is the "God of Things as they ought to be" and the designs came out of the Chicago exposition of 1909.
		The Billiken has emerald eyes and a ruby in its belly.
	www.antiqnet.com /detail,14k-gold-heavy,442766.html (122 words)

	Gateway Lindy Hop - questions? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The history of the Billiken -- and how it became affiliated with Saint Louis University -- remains debatable to this day.
		It's also known that the Billiken was manufactured in the early 1900s as a bank and statuette and was the national rage for about six months.
		During this time, the Billiken was turned into all sorts of things: basque dolls, clay incense burners, marshmallow candies, metal banks, hatpins, pickle forks, belt buckles, auto hood ornaments, salt and pepper shakers and glass bottles.
	www.gatewaylindyhop.com /topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=84&whichpage=42 (1207 words)

	chipple.net - Blog - Billiken in Shibuya!
		Part of a cultural exchange between Osaka and Tokyo, Billiken, the precious statue kept at Osaka's landmark tower Tsūtenkaku will make its way to Tokyo by shinkansen in a VIP Green Train.
		Both can be seen on the picture, on which of course no one seems to care for Hachikō;.
		Billiken can be seen at the main Tōkyū department store in Shibuya from September 22 until October 4 part of the Osaka fair.
	www.chipple.net /mt/2005/09/01_002394.php (204 words)

	Top 20 Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Also, in January 2005 Tim Ward was picked 12th overall in the 2005 MLS SuperDraft by the MetroStars, and Will John was pick 18th overall by the Chicago Fire.
		In the 1948-1949 the Billikens were ranked first in the first AP basketball poll.
		The widespread NCAA conference realignment affected the Billikens, as they made the move from Conference USA to the Atlantic 10 on July 1, 2005.
	encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Saint_Louis_University (941 words)

	Buy Billiken Online or Sell Billiken Online - eBay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Texas A&M is 5-1 and is coming off a 4-game victory against No. 22 Minnesota Saturday at the SLU Billiken Invitational in St. Louis.
		The University of Minnesota volleyball team fell to Texas A&M 22-30, 30-24, 31-29, 30-25 in its final match of the Billiken Invitational at Saint Louis University on Saturday.
		The Texas A&M volleyball team carries a 3-0 record into the SLU Billiken Invitational beginning Friday in Saint Louis.
	www.low-priced-collectibles.com /billiken.htm (862 words)

	uBC
		Anche se in realtà a salvarla è il buon vecchio Billiken, elfo buono della "Corte Benedetta".
		Albo 205, pagg.48/49: appare quasi un pò ridicolo che Billiken debba ricorrere a dei molto umani pugni per aver ragione dei mostri della "Corte maledetta.
		Florence Pretz ultima discendente delle custodi del ciondolo magico riproducente le fattezze di Billiken, nipote di un'altra Florence Pretz
	www.ubcfumetti.com /mm/204.htm (312 words)

	Cuban Baseball Cards - Billiken
		A group of collectors purchased some 1923-24 Billiken cards from an old time collector in Cuba.
		Among the group of Billiken cards were seven cards, which were unknown to collectors until now.
		This league was headed by Miguel Angel Gonzalez and featured a young pitcher named Martin Dihigo.
	www.cubanball.com /Images/BBCards/CCpre45/Billiken/billiken.html (89 words)

	WPA - Demos - Annual Bud Billiken Parade
		WPA - Demos - Annual Bud Billiken Parade
		The annual Bud Billiken® Parade in Chicago is the largest African-American parade in the United States.
		In 1954, boxer Joe Louis helped celebrate the event's 25th anniversary.
	www.wpafilmlibrary.com /archive_budbilliken.html (35 words)

	Billiken Robot Hauk Silver::Robot Island::
		Home » Reproduction Robots » Billiken Robot Hauk Silver
		Same incredible quality as all Billiken tin Robots.
		This is a limited edition Silver Version made several years ago and getting difficult to find.
	www.robotisland.com /product_info.php/name/Billiken%20Robot%20Hauk%20Silver/products_id/92/language/en (103 words)

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