Photos: Hello Kitty Con
Hello Kitty fans will be traveling to Los Angeles this week celebrate the character's 40th birthday at Hello Kitty Con, a four-day festival dedicated to all things Kitty. —AP
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In this Jan. 20, 2009 file photo, nurses check on newborns, at the Hello Kitty-designed maternity ward, at the Hau Sheng hospital in the southern Taiwan city of Chunghua. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, File)
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This Oct. 13, 2014 photo shows Sanrio Hello Kitty skateboards displayed at the home of collectors, Marty Garrett and his wife Salumeh Eslamieh in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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In this Nov. 25, 2010 file photo, The Hello Kitty balloon floats down 7th Avenue in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)
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In this Monday, Oct. 13, 2014 photo, Salumeh Eslamieh, top left, and Marty Garrett walk up the stairs past statues of Sanrio characters Hello Kitty, bottom left, and Pochacco displayed at their home in San Francisco. The married couple turned the garage of their San Francisco home into a permanent showroom for their vast Hello Kitty collection. The couple met and bonded over the little white cat. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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This Monday, Oct. 13, 2014 photo shows a Sanrio Hello Kitty toy stove displayed at the home of Marty Garrett and his wife Salumeh Eslamieh in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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In this Monday, Oct. 13, 2014 photo, Marty Garrett walks under a Sanrio Hello Kitty displayed over the door to his classroom at Lawton Alternative School in San Francisco. Some of Garrett's and his wife, Salumeh Eslamieh's Hello Kitty collection is kept in his fourth-grade classroom at the school. Seasonal Sanrio banners hang outside the door, a giant acrylic Hello Kitty face greets students inside, and a pile of plush toys sit atop the bookcase. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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This Monday, Oct. 13, 2014 photo shows part of the Sanrio Hello Kitty collection displayed at the home of Marty Garrett and his wife Salumeh Eslamieh in San Francisco. The couple met and bonded over the little white cat, and will be traveling to Los Angeles this week celebrate the character's 40th birthday at Hello Kitty Con, opening Oct. 30, a four-day festival dedicated to all things Kitty. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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In this Monday, Oct. 13, 2014 photo, Marty Garrett, left, and his wife Salumeh Eslamieh stand in front of their Sanrio Hello Kitty collection at their home in San Francisco. . (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Actress Megan Hilty from the NBC series "Smash," poses with the character Hello Kitty at the launch of the Hello Kitty Big Pink Bow fragrance at the re-opening of Sephora Soho, Friday, May 4, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Starpix, Amanda Schwab)
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This 2003 photo provided by Sanrio shows a model wearing Hello Kitty's first designer collection by Heatherette debuting on the runway. The first Hello Kitty Con, a four-day festival of all things Kitty held in honor of the character's 40th birthday, opens Oct. 30, 2014, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Sanrio)
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This undated photo provided by Sanrio shows The Hello Kitty Smart car that debuted in 2009, when Hello Kitty celebrated its 35th anniversary and collaborated with popular fashion brands. (AP Photo/Sanrio)
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In this Nov. 22, 2007 file photo, the Hello Kitty balloon makes its first appearance in the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade as it moves through Times Square in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
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This photo provided by Sanrio shows the hello Kitty "Lita" high-heel shoe that is included in the Hello Kitty new limited edition products for the Hello Kitty 40th anniversary. (AP Photo/Sanrio)
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This photo provided by the Japanese American National Museum shows Lady Gaga wearing the Hello Kitty x Lady Gaga Plush Dress, 2009, photographed by Markus + Indrani, and styled by GK Reid. (AP Photo/Japanese American National Museum, Markus + Indrani)
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This Monday, Oct. 13, 2014 photo shows a vintage 1976 rotary Sanrio Hello Kitty telephone displayed at the home of collectors, Marty Garrett and his wife Salumeh Eslamieh, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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This Oct. 13, 2014 photo shows a Sanrio Hello Kitty calculator from 1976 displayed at the home of collectors, Marty Garrett and his wife Salumeh Eslamieh, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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This Monday, Oct. 13, 2014 photo shows a Sanrio Hello Kitty magazine, issue #14 of The Strawberry News from May 1976 on display at the home of Marty Garrett and his wife Salumeh Eslamieh in San Francisco. It is Hello Kitty's first appearance on the cover. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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This photo provided by Sanrio shows the first Hello Kitty product, a coin purse, launched in 1975. (AP Photo/Sanrio)
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Lady Gaga poses for photographers with a Hello Kitty doll during a press conference to promote her album "ARTPOP" in Tokyo, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
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Janet Hsu, president and COO of Sanrio talks with media during a tour of "Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty", at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on October 10, 2014. (Ed Crisostomo/Orange County Register/MCT)
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Abby Tanabe, 6, stands next to a fiberglass sculpture by Colin Christian called Super Space Titan Kitty as her mother Joelle takes a photograph at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on October 10, 2014. (Ed Crisostomo/Orange County Register/MCT)
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Elizabeth Ho is all smiles during a tour of "Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty", at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on October 10, 2014. (Ed Crisostomo/Orange County Register/MCT)
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Hello Kitty items stand in a glass case one of many items on display at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on October 10, 2014. (Ed Crisostomo/Orange County Register/MCT)
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Hello Kitty items stand in a glass case one of many items on display at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on October 10, 2014. (Ed Crisostomo/Orange County Register/MCT)
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A Hello Kitty surfboard stands tall, one of many items on display at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on October 10, 2014. (Ed Crisostomo/Orange County Register/MCT)
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An acrylic paint and digital called Kitty Visions by Kozyndan hangs on a wall among many other art works on display at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on October 10, 2014. (Ed Crisostomo/Orange County Register/MCT)