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Emile

(43,248 posts) Mon Oct 27, 2025, 07:57 PM Oct 2025

I will seek a third term! WARNING SCARY PHOTO

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I will seek a third term! WARNING SCARY PHOTO (Original Post) Emile Oct 2025 OP

Looks like an apple doll I once had. lol chowder66 Oct 2025 #1

Wow! I haven't heard or thought about apple dolls for 50+ years! Maru Kitteh Oct 2025 #3

They were really weird. I only had one. chowder66 Oct 2025 #4

They were very weird. I made one in school around that time. Maru Kitteh Oct 2025 #6

I feel like there was some sort of surge after I got mine. I'd never seen one and then started seeing them later. chowder66 Oct 2025 #7

LOL 😆 Emile Oct 2025 #5

The... 2naSalit Oct 2025 #2

chowder66

(12,509 posts)

1. Looks like an apple doll I once had. lol

Reply to Emile (Original post)

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 08:35 PM

Oct 2025

Maru Kitteh

(32,010 posts)

3. Wow! I haven't heard or thought about apple dolls for 50+ years!

Reply to chowder66 (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 08:48 PM

Oct 2025

Forgot all about those!

chowder66

(12,509 posts)

4. They were really weird. I only had one.

Reply to Maru Kitteh (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 28, 2025, 12:11 AM

Oct 2025

Probably around 1974 ish?

Maru Kitteh

(32,010 posts)

6. They were very weird. I made one in school around that time.

Reply to chowder66 (Reply #4)

Tue Oct 28, 2025, 10:37 AM

Oct 2025

It must have enjoyed a surge in popularity around then. I remember a lot of “Colonial” period domestic arts and styles being popular, with nods to the bicentennial.

chowder66

(12,509 posts)

7. I feel like there was some sort of surge after I got mine. I'd never seen one and then started seeing them later.

Reply to Maru Kitteh (Reply #6)

Tue Oct 28, 2025, 12:53 PM

Oct 2025

I asked my mom and she said she picked it up on a trip to Arkansas.

Emile

(43,248 posts)

5. LOL 😆

Reply to Maru Kitteh (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 28, 2025, 07:30 AM

Oct 2025

2naSalit

(103,806 posts)

2. The...

Reply to Emile (Original post)

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 08:41 PM

Oct 2025

Undead.

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