Sunday, September 26, 2010
Vintage Barbie
Vintage Barbie Dolls start at the very inception of a doll that would become an icon. Ruth Handler and her husband Elliot started the company known as Mattel to produce a doll named after their daughter Barbara. The business got off to a shaky start and Barbie was not well received at the Annual Toy Fair in New York City in 1959, but she stood her ground on those tiny feet in high heeled shoes and by 1960 was being taken very seriously throughout the American toy industry and department
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