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One of my favorites dolls! i love the outfit! is so in fashion trend!
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Barbie: "Cookout" Vintage Magazine Puzzle Page (Mattel) 1972
*Appeared In: Barbie Talk, Vintage "Fan Club" Magazine Issue Vol. 3, No. 5 - June/July 1972 (Mattel)
Barbie: "Barbie's Boutique" Vintage Magazine Doll Photography/Advertisement (Mattel) 1972
*Appeared In: Barbie Talk, Vintage Magazine Issue Vol. 3, No. 3 - April 1972 (Mattel)
These are a few piles of my vintage Barbie paper doll books and magazines. I love the graphics and illustrations, and started a group, www.facebook.com/groups/BarbieTalk/, where I plan to share them all. I hope to post high-res scans for download to my new, secondary account dedicated to this Facebook Group: www.flickr.com/photos/barbietalk/albums.
I usually pay a minimum of $10-20 per item. Then I scan them on a high-quality scanner - for example, just scanning in 11 of my BARBIE TALK issues cost me FOUR HOURS, and that is BEFORE I then crop and PhotoShop each image for clarity and saturation.
THEN I WATERMARK EVERYTHING with MyLifeinPlastic. WHY? you may ask. Re-read the above - I've put considerable money and time into my collection, and so when I post the images online, I have to protect them from being stolen.
WHO would do such a thing? Well, scammers on eBay, to begin with - I don't want them trying to sell you a physical object they don't actually have. Nor do I want them to sell you a reproduction they've made from my possessions. Lastly, even without the threat of theft, I quite rightly believe I deserve credit for all that time and money on the images I share. No debate welcome.
I started this group in part because I had once belonged to "Barbie Booklets, Instructions, Labels and Catalog Pages," but after sharing some of my images in that group, the admin unilaterally blocked me without explanation, and when a friend asked them WHY?, they answered that they didn't like that I watermarked my images.
Oh, and they threw in the LIE that they'd heard a "rumor" I put MY watermark on OTHER people's images. A slander and libel that I'd like to nip in the bud right now: I never steal images. However, I have had my images stolen, by people I used to trust, who REMOVED my watermark and REPLACED it with their own.
So now you can see why I take precautions. If you have any further questions, you can DM me privately, but that's all I'm going to say on the matter for now.
To everyone who would like to share their images (with or without your own watermark - totally YOUR decision, without judgment) - WELCOME!
Barbie: "Happy 4th Of July" (Mattel) 1972
*Appeared In: Barbie Talk, Vintage "Fan Club" Magazine Issue Vol. 3, No. 5 - June/July 1972 (Mattel)
Barbie: "Fashions For The 70s" Vintage Magazine Checklist 1of2 (Mattel) 1970
*Appeared In: Barbie Talk, Vintage Fan Club Magazine Issue Vol. 1 No. 3 May/June 1970 (Mattel)
BOX DATE: 1969
MANUFACTURER: Mattel
DOLLS IN LINE: Barbie; Stacey; Christie; P.J.; Ken; Brad
BODY TYPE: 1967; speaker on back; pull string on neck; straight arms; bend & snap legs; small defined toes
HEAD MOLD: 1958 "Midge"; rooted eyelashes
SPECIAL FEATURES: Talks
IMPORTANT NOTES: The same facial screening and hair style were used on 1969 Twist 'N Turn Waist! P.J. Other than the outfit, the only difference is that the Twist 'N Turn Waist! dolls lacked the talking body (they used the standard 1966 mold).
PERSONAL FUN FACT: When I first flipped through the pages of my "The Ultimate Barbie Book," I never imagined I would get a Talking P.J. doll, let alone be in love with her. I always thought the Talking dolls looked cheap, and weren't very cute. They reminded me more of clone dolls than authentic Barbies. I honestly never expected to be presented with the opportunity to buy a Talking P.J. Given her age it seemed unlikely one would turn up at the flea market for a deal. One day in 2014, my sister and I were lucky enough to go on an "adventure" with a flea market vendor. She took us upstairs (the flea market was in an old factory) so we could see some of her dolls. While most of them were boxed, I spotted Talking Barbie, the P.J. on the left of this photo, and Bicyclin' Whitney. All three dolls came home with us that day for $5 all together. Ironically, I got P.J.'s outfit a week later in a small case of vintage Skipper clothes Colleen bought! P.J. reminds me a lot of my Beautiful Hair Ariel--her previous owner tried to fix her leg in the same manner my Dad fixed Ariel's. Both had screws inserted into their hips! P.J.'s other leg was already off when I got her, but luckily, I knew how to fix it. Of course, things got complicated when the screwed on leg fell off a few years later. Her original hip joint had been obliterated by the screw. So I had to fabricate my own using acrylic liquid/filler. I was shocked by how well it worked, and her leg has stayed snugly on ever since. I even repeated this technique on Talking Barbie some years later. Granted, she didn't have a screw that ruined her hip joint, but there was a lot of damage to one. P.J. not only taught me to love dolls from this line, but I also learned some valuable restoration techniques that saved other dolls in need!
My second P.J. came in the "60s bin" of 2015. It was a fall day that year, when I stumbled upon a case of 1960s Barbies. It was in one of the last aisles of the local flea market. Not long before we'd scored a large, expensive Bratz lot in a similar location. The case was sort of pricey compared to what I'd usually pay. But looking at the vibrancy of the clothes and the condition of the dolls, I knew it was a bargain. It was well worth the splurge. P.J. and her 3 sisters were all in great shape! Well, to me P.J. was in great condition...her legs were actually both off when I bought the dolls. I knew it would be an easy fix though, and that I was potentially saving her from being thrown out. Her legs were much easier to fix than my other doll's were. She didn't have any screws that obliterated her hip joint. And the repair seems to have lasted longer too (I don't think I've had to redo it in the years since I first did). Her sunglasses were still sewn to her head when I adopted her...which is pretty incredible considering this doll is over 40 years old! She was wearing Ken's Touchdown fashion for some reason...an interesting choice. P.J. has become my second favorite vintage friend of Barbie, right after Francie, and I have to say, that has a lot to do with these two cuties! I feel like we've really gotten to know each other over the years, considering the fact that I had to fix both of them!
BOX DATE: 1969
MANUFACTURER: Mattel
DOLLS IN LINE: Barbie; Stacey; Christie; P.J.; Ken; Brad
BODY TYPE: 1967; speaker on back; pull string on neck; straight arms; bend & snap legs; small defined toes
HEAD MOLD: 1958 "Midge"; rooted eyelashes
SPECIAL FEATURES: Talks
IMPORTANT NOTES: The same facial screening and hair style were used on 1969 Twist 'N Turn Waist! P.J. Other than the outfit, the only difference is that the Twist 'N Turn Waist! dolls lacked the talking body (they used the standard 1966 mold).
Barbie: Vintage Magazine Illustration (Mattel) 1972
*Appeared In: Barbie Talk, Vintage Magazine Issue Vol. 3, No. 3 - April 1972 (Mattel)
Barbie: Vintage Magazine Illustration (Mattel) 1972
*Appeared In: Barbie Talk, Vintage Magazine Issue Vol. 3, No. 3 - April 1972 (Mattel)
Another tragic find in Barbie Talk Magazine March/April 1970 (or 1971) - a letter from actress Anissa Jones, Buffy from Family Affair - who would later die in 1976 at age 18 from a drug overdose. Her plans for her future are especially sad and poignant in light of her ultimate demise:
A very special letter from Anissa (Buffy) Jones Tells Her Story
Dear Barbie Fans: I'm Anissa Jones and I play the part of Buffy in the television program, Family Affair. I was born on March 11, 1958, in Lafayette, Indiana—crying my head off. A year or two later, we moved our home to California. We still live in the same house as then, in Playa del Rey, right across the street from the ocean and the beach. It's a duplex. We live downstairs and rent the upstairs apartment.
From the ages of two to four, in other words my early life, I was pretty normal, but awfully small for my age. Like when I first went to school, I was so small everyone thought I was just pretending. I wasn't career minded at all! Neither my mom or I ever thought of being in TV. I never took singing, dancing or acting lessons. We weren't too well off money-wise at the time. My mom had a job that was good, but not good enough to raise two kids, one boy and one girl. So we decided to take up a suggestion of my mom's friend who told us there was a talent agent looking for children to do commercials.
Anissa Jones loves her career, and dreams about the future:
They wanted kids six or seven who looked a lot younger. We went to the agent and he gave me three acting lessons and gave me pictures for interviews. One of my interviews was for a commercial about a picnic basket. I got the job. If you bought three products they were advertising, you would get a picnic basket. And I was having a picnic with the basket. It was fun!
Then I went for an interview for Family Affair. The next thing I found out I was in the show! The first show (it's called a pilot) was very cute. But what a surprise when I learned what a working day was like! I had to get up at 6 a.m., go to work by 8, EAT, get dressed, work until 1 p.m., EAT, work until 5 p.m., or less. So you can imagine the change.
Some of the nicest people I work with are the crew. They are the people behind the scenes, and they help me and everyone else in the cast. Some of them are the light men, camera crew, grips (they're carpenters), make-up men, hairdressing and wardrobe women and lots of others.
Last year, after filming Family Affair, I did a movie with Elvis Presley called The Trouble with Girls. That was fun. I got to eat popcorn and cotton candy. I love to eat.
The advantages of working in show business are traveling, meeting a lot of people, getting gifts and having fun. The disadvantages I don't like are working in the summer, missing fun events, not getting to wear what I want, getting up very early every day, and having to be careful. I broke my leg in the schoolyard last year before we started shooting. It held up the whole company three weeks, and I felt terrible. They had to rewrite a lot of scripts to tell folks why I was in a leg cast.
For my future life, I am going to quit working when I am 14. I want to go to high school and get ready for college. Someday I want to get married and have a family.
I'm sorry I can't answer all the letters I get personally, or be pen pals with all the people who write. School work interferes and so does work. But I can give out pictures. Will you think of this as a letter? It's been fun writing to you.
Bye now, Buffy
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Mandatory Credit: Photo courtesy Michael Williams @MyLifeInPlastic.com
Barbie: "Best Buy Portrait" Vintage Magazine Doll Photography (Mattel) 1972
*Appeared In: Barbie Talk, Vintage Magazine Issue Vol. 3, No. 3 - April 1972 (Mattel)
Barbie: "Swing Around The Maypole" Vintage Magazine Doll Photography (Mattel) 1972
*Appeared In: Barbie Talk, Vintage "Fan Club" Magazine Issue Vol. 3, No. 4 - May 1972 (Mattel)
Barbie: "Francie" Fashion Doll Portrait (Mattel) 1972
*Appeared In: Barbie Talk, Vintage "Fan Club" Magazine Issue Vol. 3, No. 5 - June/July 1972 (Mattel)
Barbie: Vintage Magazine Illustration (Mattel) 1972
*Appeared In: Barbie Talk, Vintage Magazine Issue Vol. 3, No. 3 - April 1972 (Mattel)
BOX DATE: 1969
MANUFACTURER: Mattel
DOLLS IN LINE: Barbie; Stacey; Christie; P.J.; Ken; Brad
MISSING ITEMS: Underwear
IMPORTANT NOTES: There were two print variations (see separate photo for reference).
PERSONAL FUN FACT: It really felt like it was meant to be, when I found Talking P.J.'s dress the week after I bought my doll. Seriously, I love it when things work out that way (and you'd be surprised the number of times it occurs). It was in a $5 case of 1960s Barbie clothes we purchased at the local flea market. There weren't any dolls included, except a My Scene Sutton (strange, I know). The majority of the fashions were for Skipper, which is what prompted the purchase. I was delighted when I saw this groovy orange dress. I couldn't believe my luck...considering P.J.'s age, I wasn't ever expecting to reunite her with this original ensemble. This is definitely one of my favorite 1960s Barbie outfits...it embodies everything I love about this era of fashion. As for my other dress, it was in a case we got at the same flea market about a year later. This dress was also accompanied by the P.J. doll who was sold in it. However, she was wearing Ken's Touchdown fashion instead. I was very pleased to discover that even P.J.'s shoes and sunglasses were in the lot. You so rarely find tiny accessories from the 1960s. Of course, one of the reasons I wanted to splurge on this particular lot was the condition of all the stuff inside. I could tell it was immaculate and quite complete.
Barbie: "Beauty Center/Styling Head" Vintage Magazine Advertisement (Mattel) 1972
*Appeared In: Barbie Talk, Vintage "Fan Club" Magazine Issue Vol. 3, No. 5 - June/July 1972 (Mattel)
Barbie: "The Mixed-Up Wedding (Mattel) 1972
*Appeared In: Barbie Talk, Vintage "Fan Club" Magazine Issue Vol. 3, No. 5 - June/July 1972 (Mattel)
Barbie: "Christie Portrait" Vintage Magazine Doll Photography (Mattel) 1972
*Appeared In: Barbie Talk, Vintage "Fan Club" Magazine Issue Vol. 3, No. 4 - May 1972 (Mattel)
Barbie: "Fashions Fun For '71" Vintage Doll Magazine Checklist/Advertisement 1of2 (Mattel) 1971
*Appeared In: Barbie Talk, Vintage Fan Club Magazine Issue Vol. 2 No. 4 July/Aug. 1971 (Mattel)
Barbie: "Hidden Picture" Vintage Magazine Puzzle Page (Mattel) 1972
*Appeared In: Barbie Talk, Vintage Magazine Issue Vol. 3, No. 3 - April 1972 (Mattel)
Barbie: "Swing Around The Maypole" Vintage Magazine Page (Mattel) 1972
*Appeared In: Barbie Talk, Vintage "Fan Club" Magazine Issue Vol. 3, No. 4 - May 1972 (Mattel)
Barbie Book Haul: Dealer Catalogs, Magazines & Books (6/23/23)
*Dealer Catalogs x 3 ('88, '93-'94)
*French Catalog (1984)
*Barbie Talk Magazine x 7 (1970s)
*Activity Books (Modern)
*Cook Book (1991)
Barbie: "A Weekend With Barbie" Vintage Magazine Board Game (Mattel) 1972
*Appeared In: Barbie Talk, Vintage Magazine Issue Vol. 3, No. 3 - April 1972 (Mattel)
Barbie: "The Mysterious Journey" Vintage Magazine Doll Photography (Mattel) 1972
*Appeared In: Barbie Talk, Vintage "Fan Club" Magazine Issue Vol. 3, No. 4 - May 1972 (Mattel)
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Mandatory Credit: Image courtesy Michael Williams / @MyLifeinPlastic.com from my personal collection of #BarbieTalk #doll #barbiedolls #fashion #fashiondoll #fashiondolls #fashionphotography #vintage #retro #vintagefashion #miniature #diorama #miniatures #dioramas #toy #toys #1970s #TheSeventies
Mandatory Credit: Image courtesy Michael Williams / @MyLifeinPlastic.com from my personal collection of #BarbieTalk #doll #barbiedolls #fashion #fashiondoll #fashiondolls #fashionphotography #vintage #retro #vintagefashion #miniature #diorama #miniatures #dioramas #toy #toys #1970s #TheSeventies
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Barbie: "Winter Wonderland" Vintage Magazine Page (Barbie Talk/Mattel) 1971
*Appeared In: Barbie Talk, Vintage Fan Club Magazine Issue Vol. 3, No. 1 - Dec-Jan 1971 (Mattel)
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