Sixty One Things About Barbie on her 61st Birthday
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Sixty One Things About Barbie on her 61st Birthday

Barbie's official birthday represents her first public exhibition at the 1959 American International Toy Fair in New York. Here is the FIRST Barbie Commercial + read below for 61 trivia and facts about one of our FAVORITE dolls and a roundup of our favorite VDC presentations about Barbie on YouTube.

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WHO Likes Dolly Dingle?!
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WHO Likes Dolly Dingle?!

Dolly Dingle is a contemporary of Rose O’Neill’s Kewpies, and was born in 1913. She resembles the Kewpies, and has the same fat, rosy cheeks and wide, almost googly side-glancing eyes, but where most of the Kewpies are cherubs or babies, Dolly is a little girl. Like O’Neill, however, Drayton enjoyed a lot of commercial success.

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