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7. i used to have one of mattel's beatnik "scooba doo" dolls with the dark hair

Reply to LiberalEsto (Original post)

Sun Feb 16, 2014, 03:49 PM

Feb 2014

she had a pull string and could talk.
said stuff like "i dig that crazy beat...yeah!"

she would scat which was pretty cool. they show her in this video but the voice box is playing a little too fast.

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How Corporate America killed the Hippie era [View all] LiberalEsto Feb 2014 OP

Little Miss No Name reminds me of LiberalElite Feb 2014 #1

I just had a Betsy Wetsy LiberalEsto Feb 2014 #2

I had a Betsy Wetsy LiberalElite Feb 2014 #3

Ditto on Patty LiberalEsto Feb 2014 #4

Looks like Li’l Winking Herby Hippy is rocking a pretty good buzz. Joe Shlabotnik Feb 2014 #5

Suzy Smart looked demonic aint_no_life_nowhere Feb 2014 #14

I'm pretty sure they didn't understand what "fully jointed hippie" meant. Scuba Feb 2014 #6

i used to have one of mattel's beatnik "scooba doo" dolls with the dark hair orleans Feb 2014 #7

I like this doll TuxedoKat Feb 2014 #10

Never heard of those 2 dolls in the OP Boomerproud Feb 2014 #8

You mean Kent State. The National Guard shot protestors. That changed everything. kwassa Feb 2014 #11

The National Guard had beat up protestors at Berkeley the year before Art_from_Ark Feb 2014 #12

It didn't stop us from protesting, though LiberalEsto Feb 2014 #13

I think there was a big overlap, because the number of actual hippies was quite small. kwassa Feb 2014 #17

I remember the Brat Dolls TuxedoKat Feb 2014 #9

Creepy, Pennywise looking things. HappyMe Feb 2014 #15

I thought it was the 1970's heroin epidemic that killed the hippie era Sen. Walter Sobchak Feb 2014 #16