Question: When did the bear with neighbor Mr. Curry first appear?

Bear Mountain, formerly Goldmine Mountain, is a ski area in Southern California.  When its neighbor, Snow Summit, bought Bear Mountain in 2002, the new entity, Big Bear Mountain Resorts, comprised the two, with a single lift ticket usable at both.  Snow Summit's Richard "Dick" Kun led the move to focus Bear Mountain upon the snowboarder, to draw her away from Snow Summit, and thereby attune it once more to the culture of the dedicated skier.  Bear Mountain acquired the nickname, "The Park," because most of it comprises irregular terrain.  The mountain contains one of the few Superpipes in Southern California.  Given sufficient natural snow, its tree runs are open for skiing and snowboarding, unlike those at Snow Summit.  Even that territory normally "out of bounds" off of Chair 8 has opened after heavy snow.  Olympic Gold Medalist Shaun White frequented Bear Mountain while he was quite young, although he spent most of his time on the Snow Summit Westridge freestyle run.  Bear Mountain popularized freestyle skiing and snowboarding with its establishment of the first freestyle park in the early 1990s.  In the early 2000s, Transworld Snowboarding Magazine placed Bear Mountain among its Top 10 Parks.  The movement of jibing continues to grow with the addition of the Red Bull Plaza and weekly film series called “Sunday in the Park.” <SEP>  He first appeared on 13 October 1958 in the children's book "A Bear Called Paddington" and has been featured in more than twenty books written by English author Michael Bond and illustrated by Peggy Fortnum and other artists.  The friendly bear from deepest, darkest Peru—with his old hat, battered suitcase (complete with a secret compartment, enabling it to hold more items than it would appear to), duffel coat and love of marmalade—has become a classic character from English children's literature.  Paddington books have been translated into 30 languages across 70 titles and sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. Paddington Bear is a fictional character in children's literature.  A much loved fictional character in British culture, a Paddington Bear soft toy was chosen by British tunnellers as the first item to pass through to their French counterparts when the two sides of the Channel Tunnel were linked in 1994. <SEP>  He further took on the role of Paddington Bear's neighbour Mr. Curry in the family comedy film "Paddington"; he is set to reprise the role in "Paddington 2". Peter Dougan Capaldi (born 14 April 1958) is a Scottish actor, writer and director, best known for playing the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in "Doctor Who" and as spin doctor Malcolm Tucker in "The Thick of It", for which he has received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010.  For reprising the role in the spinoff film "In the Loop", Capaldi was honoured with several film critic award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. <SEP> Marcus G. Curry (born June 1, 1961), known professionally as Mark Curry is an American actor, comedian, and host.  Curry is best known for his role as Mark Cooper, ex–basketball player turn teacher on the ABC sitcom "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper" which originally aired from 1992 to 1997.  Curry also served as one of the various hosts of the syndicated series "It's Showtime at the Apollo" during the early–1990s.  Curry starred in Nick At Nite's first-ever original live-action family comedy series, "See Dad Run", as Scott Baio's best friend Marcus from 2012–2015.