I
have many customers who, over the years, have shared with me the story of
their childhood Chatty....I'm always touched at how much love you all have
for one little doll. Recently while talking with a new customer who
wanted to send her doll in for restoration, I came up with the idea of creating a page for
all of you to show off photos of your childhood Chatty. If
you have a picture of yourself as a little girl with a cherished doll,
whether it be a Chatty Cathy or another doll you loved as a child, please
email it to me and I will proudly include it here.
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This
is such a beautiful drawing that it deserved a place of honor at
the top of this page. This is Tamara, age 8, sketched by her
Grandmother in 1962, holding her beloved Chatty.
At the
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"I
remember sitting very still in Grandma Martha's tiny kitchen as
she sketched this colored-pencil drawing of me holding my Chatty.
It's one of my clearest, most emotionally-charged
memories."
Chatty
was a Christmas gift to Tamara the year before,
in
1961.
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This
is Linda, whose adorable little doll was the inspiration for this
page. The photo was taken in 1960, when Linda was five years
old, with the brightest smile on her face - her Chatty was a gift
from Santa that year. |
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This
is Cindy on her 7th birthday, in 1963. This is actually one of the
clearest pictures of a Chatty Cathy I have ever seen. Look
how clearly her face shows in the photo. Such a pretty
little doll...the world had no idea of the impact that one little
doll was going to have.
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This
is Ashley, taken in 1964, with her soft-faced Tiny Chatty Baby. Her
doll is the harder-to-find version with brunette hair. |
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This
is Stacy from 1965, with her very much missed Chatty Cathy,
a hard-faced brunette pageboy, just like Stacy herself. Stacy
received an identical Chatty from her family for her
50th birthday....Dreams really do come true :>) |
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This
is Pattie on Christmas Day 1960, when she was eight years old.
Pretty little Chatty was a gift from Santa that very morning. Pattie
is one of the lucky ones whose Chatty is still with her (or should I say
Chatty is the lucky one to have been loved so much by one little girl) |
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This
is Lori, taken in 1962 when she was three and a half. Sitting very
prim and proper right next to her is Suzy Smart (remember
her?). She received Suzy from Santa that year....she has said the doll was almost as
big as her! Lori also had a Chatty Cathy which will be proudly posted here
if a picture can be found. |
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And
- this
is me with my sister from Christmas 1962 - I was ten years old and
she was six. I'm holding my beloved Candy Fashion that I
wanted soooo badly, and she is holding her own Suzy Smart.
It was the following year that Chatty came into our home and took a
special place in my sister's bedroom - and in my heart. We have
never been able to find an old picture of Chatty but if we do, it will
have a place of honor on this page. |
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This
is Jeanne with her cherished brown-eyed Chatty Cathy that she received for
Christmas in 1961. This picture was taken the following July when
she received the adorable stroller for her birthday. |
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This
is Mary on Christmas Day, 1962. She was three years old in front of
her tinseled Christmas tree, where underneath she found the adorable
brunette Chatty Santa had brought her. Every time I look at
Mary's face, I laugh. |
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.....and
here is Mary in 1964 at age five, when Santa again brought
her a pair of Tiny Chatty Baby Twins. No wonder she's got such a
big smile on her face :)
(...and
did anyone notice the adorable Penny Brite doll??)
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