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[Porcelain]

I had a large vinyl baby doll that was my favorite when I was really really little. My name for her was just My Baby. She was about the size of a 1 year old, with movable arms and legs.

I would take her in the bath with me and wash her hair. Well I didn't rinse her hair properly. So gradually she developed one large soap dreadlock on the top of her head. I would tote her around with me using the big dreadlock as a handle. I probably looked like a miniature cavewoman doing that.

My grandmother made me fabulous baby clothes for her, and she could wear my old baby clothes. Eventually I also started putting the baby dresses on our cat.

[kathie66]

Yes. I had Chatty Cathy, Chrissy, and Baby Thata Away. I loved my Barbie Dolls, Dawn Dolls, and the Sunshine family. But my favorite was called  Baby Tender. I don't have any of my childhood dolls. 

I  remember always wanting Baby Alive but never got it. Thanks for the thread brought back great memories. 

[gellen]

Madam Alexander. I still have a few of them and a small trunk with their lovely clothes

[Anonymous032819]

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@Pook wrote:

I really wasn't a doll kid and loved my stuffed animals but I did have a Tressy doll that I liked  and a betsy wetsy that I kind of liked but never had her wet her diaper which I found yucky!

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I wasn't a doll kid either. Oh, I had a few generic "Barbies" that I quickly lost interest in. I had a Betsy Wetsy, which I decapitated because I was curious as to how it worked.

I had more fun playing outside with my Tonka dump truck, riding my bike, etc.

[Gorgf]

I was taught to take care of my dolls and I never let them get dirty  like matted hair. I  had many mentioned but a favorite was a Bride doll who had a bun and a veil that went over her face and back when married. My Mother made clothes for her. Her name was Roberta as it was  the name on the box. A Christmas present.

The doll I hated but my Mother must have liked was a Grandma doll. She had a wrinkled face and a grey bun. Her body was a typical doll  a young woman figure which did not fit. I did not play with her very much. 

Fun memories reading these posts.  I had a Tiny Tears sent from California by by Aunt/Godmother. She had a banged up head so the mail wasn't great in the late 50s either. I had a rubber doll that of course didn't last but she had  cool roller skates and red rubber boots. She was named Tilly. 

[AuntG]

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@Enufstuff wrote:

@AuntG  Did you have Chrissy or Velvet? Those were the dolls that my daughters had with the hair that grew. Barbies came out when I was 12, but my daughters had them. I made lots of Barbie

clothes for them.

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It was Velvet @Enufstuff . In fact, I still have her. My parents must have ordered her from the Montgomery Ward Christmas catalog because there is still a shipping label taped to the box she came in.

[candys mine]

Only had a few that I recall.  i had a Penny Brite with her hair salon.  My older sister had a Chatty Cathy with the little records.  That was some Christmas afternoon as we all had to go fishing through all the wrapping paper because she'd tossed the records out wtih the wrapping!  She also had a Barbie.  The one with the black and white swimsuit.  In brunette with the ponytail.  We never got more accessories or extra clothes for the dolls.

[SoCal Bred]

I played with a doll purchased from the Five & Dime store, she was about 4" tall made out of rubber/plastic, nothing fancy but she had straight thick long reddish brown hair down to her backside that I loved to comb/braid.  I named her 'Dodie' my sis and I would play with our neighbor who had a much fancier doll, we would pretend that we (dolls) were going swimming, I had a large bowl of water that I would dunk my doll in and out......you could remove her head, 'cuz' darling brother would sometimes sabotage 'Dodie' and I would find her headless, I would just pop her head back on and go on about my day just having fun.

[katiemichelle]

Barbie and Poor Pitiful Pearl.

[Pandalady]

Baby Beans