At 17, after receiving a box of his drawings back from Disney with a Mickey Mouse masthead rejection letter as well as numerous rejection letters from The Saturday Evening Post, Holland traveled by bus to Chicago where he found odd jobs, including sweeping the floor of a tattoo parlor.
When Walt was 17, he received a box of his artwork back from Disney, accompanied by a Mickey Mouse masthead rejection letter and several rejections from The Saturday Evening Post. He then traveled to Chicago by bus, where he took on various odd jobs, including cleaning the floor at a tattoo parlor.