Comments on: Barbie hits the big 5-0

By: Chevy Lady

Chevy Lady — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:29:06 +0000

I hope I look as good as Barbie does when I hit the big 5-0!!!!!

Marcia: Great story!

By: Marcia

Marcia — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:54:10 +0000

In 1960, when I was nine years old, I won a junior floral arrangement competition sponsored by my mother’s NE Atlanta garden club. The prize was a gift certificate to the toy store at Toco Hill Shopping Center. I used it to get my first and only Barbie, and one outift. For several Christmases thereafter, I received Barbie outfits. In the 5th, 6th and 7th grades, my pals and I brought our Barbies to school and played Barbies at recess. These days, there are Barbie Hallmark ornaments on my Christmas tree every year. Barbie stands on a shelf in my kitchen, and she’s wearing her 1960’s American Airlines stewardess uniform. (I’ve been a flight attendant for Delta for thirty-three years, and I am still pals with those “girls” from elementary school.)

By: Mike Licht

Mike Licht — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:00:36 +0000

Barbie is 50. Will she join AARP?

See

http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/barbies-big-birthday/

By: fdawson

fdawson — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:47:10 +0000

Loved Barbie, and by the time I outgrew dolls, I had 32 of them. I too wonder what they would be worth now. I also had a Barbie townhouse (with elevator) and VW peace van, but my fondest memory was my first Ken (ca. 1977 or so), which came with detachable facial hair. Mustache, sideburns … Witness Protection Ken? LOL.

By: Hunter

Hunter — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:28:04 +0000

I had a 1960 Barbie with heavy blonde hair. I got a Ken doll when he first came out, complete with his fuzzy hair. The first bendable leg barbie came out and I had her also. After I moved out when I was 18, my mother threw them out along with the black round barbie case. I almost cried realizing what she would be worth now. Maybe I’ll buy the 50 year old Barbie as she and I are aging well.