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DID ANYONE ADOPT ONE OF THESE DOLLS?

Frisch The Backstory Of Cabbage Patch Kids

The Cabbage Patch Kids doll brand set every toy industry sales
record for three years running, and was one of the most popular
lines of children’s licensed products in the 1980s and has
become one of the longest-running doll franchises in the
United States.

Cabbage Patch creator Xavier Roberts, below, copyrighted his
design in 1976 and sold the rights to company Giant Coleco in
1982. Dolls that were made prior to the Coleco handover are
worth the most.

Your old Cabbage Patch doll could be worth thousands of dollars | Better Homes and Gardens

Xavier Roberts stamped onto every Cabbage Patch | Xavier roberts, Cabbage patch, My childhood ...

RARE Original 1985 Cabbage Patch Kids doll NIB Green Eye ALLIE LAYLA Nov 1 Birth | eBay ...
1483026030-5358-Cabbage-patch-kids-logo - HistoryBitz

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TV SERIES CO-CREATOR HAS DIED AT 93

Joan Ganz Cooney Center - Lloyd N. Morrisett, PhD
Lloyd N. Morrisett Jr. (November 2, 1929 – January 22, 2023)

(AP) – Lloyd Morrisett, the co-creator of the beloved children’s
education TV series "Sesame Street," which uses empathy
and fuzzy monsters like Abby Cadabby, Elmo and Cookie
Monster to charm and teach generations around the world,
has died.

Morrisett’s death was announced Tuesday by Sesame Workshop,
the nonprofit he helped establish under the name the Children’s Television Workshop. No cause of death was given.

Sesame Street creator Lloyd Morrisett dies at the age of 93 | Marca

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UNICEF ESTABLISHED ON THIS DAY IN 1946

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In the aftermath of World War II, the General Assembly
of the United Nations voted to establish the United
Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
(
UNICEF), an organization to help provide relief and
support to children living in countries devastated by
the war.

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President Harry S. Truman (third from left) in the Oval Office, receiving a report on the work of the United Nations
International Children’s Emergency Fund.

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REMEMBER THIS LOCAL KID’S TV SHOW?

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Mr. Moon began as a radio show in the early 1950s and debuted
on  KOIN-TV November 16, 1953, one month after the station went
on
 the air
. The final show aired in 1958.


       
Ed Leahy (below) played Mr. Moon and Wonder Bread was one of
the sponsors of Mr. Moon.      

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DOLL MADE IT’S DEBUT ON THIS DAY IN 1959

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On March 9, 1959, the first Barbie doll went  on display at the
American Toy Fair in
New York City.

Eleven inches tall, with a waterfall of blond hair, Barbie was the
first mass-produced toy doll in the United States with adult
features. The woman behind Barbie was Ruth Handler, who co-
founded Mattel, Inc. with her husband in 1945. After seeing her
young daughter ignore her baby dolls to play make-believe with
paper dolls of adult women, Handler realized there was an
important niche in the market for a toy that allowed little girls
to imagine the future.

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First Barbie TV commercial in 1959.

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The woman behind Barbie was Ruth Handler,who co-founded Mattel, Inc. with her husband in 1945.

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