Sometimes tracking down childhood toys, especially dolls, can be stymied by the names we gave them; we know that we named a favourite doll after a friend or someone in a book, but we don't remember what it really said on the box. Usually the box is long, long gone anyway. I had a drink-and-wet doll that always went by "Bat Baby," named not after the superhero but because I had pointed at her in a store just before Christmas, when I was almost two, and asked for "bat baby." I think she was a Horsman doll, but it's hard to tell because, like a lot of inexpensive dolls of that era, her pretty blonde hair quickly acquired the texture of a pot scrubber.
The doll with the red-and-white stripes was called Rosemary. I have no idea if that was her real name. (That's a visiting friend holding Rosemary and wearing the luffly hat. I'm the one in the fedora.)
The doll in the photo below was always called "Kimmie." I assumed that I'd named her...or someone had...after my cousin Kim.
Turns out the doll actually was a "Kimmie." She was one of a line of very popular Native-costumed dolls sold by Regal Imports in the early 1960's. Well, once in awhile you get lucky.
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