

My 3 daughters and lots of kids I babysat played with all the dolls we had. I lost all the Barbies some time in one of my moves. I have 2 dolls from the 1950s that I got when I was 6 and 8. LOL.Ĭongratulations on LOTD mel-kav! I have been to this page before, I did not see I left a message. BTW, I didn't end up with twins for children - had boy - girl - boy instead - all several years apart. I wish I'd taken them with me when I first left home because I ended up with a daughter and it would have been fun to pass them on to her. Then I grew up, left for college, met my hubby and married and during those years my folks sold their home and moved to a mobile home and got rid of ALL the stuff in their attic, including those dolls. The following year I got twin boy/girl dolls that were the size of newborn babies and I LOVED those. Anyway, one Christmas I got twin boy and girl dolls that were small - perhaps 12" tall. Somewhere along the line (age 9 or 10 perhaps) I got very interested in twins and thought I'd like to have twins when I grew up to be a mommy. Well done, as is this lens! I never really got into Barbie dolls (although my daughter had a couple), but I remember some of my baby dolls. Wednesday-Elf from Savannah, Georgia on March 07, 2014:

It is amazing that you still have all of these and I love your daughters opinion of the page.lol And when we cut their hair, we didn't have the proper scissors. When we put all of our dolls together, we had a nicely sized classroom. We were mothers, doctors/nurses, teachers, and barbers to our dolls. My friends and I only had a few dolls each, and we played and explored with our imaginations daily. In the 1960s and 1970s, kids didn't have a whole lot. They hold so many memories of an innocent and carefree childhood from so long ago. So-what do you think of my collection? I know they are old and beat-up, but I don't know if I will ever part with them. Of course, I also enjoyed playing with the fort and the new action figures. Hasbro eventually expanded their line with "The Best of the West" collection. My brothers had Johnny West, Thunderbolt (Johnny's horse), and Chief Cherokee, amongst other accessories. Josie quickly became friends with my Barbie family, even though she was quite different.
