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Volume 14, Issue 49, Week of December 19, 2016
Saskatoonʼs REAL Community Newspaper
Bubbles back home Woman reunited with Christmas present
Dian Walsh was reunited last month with a gift she received 76 years ago. (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson)
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n amazing discovery Walsh, “and a doll whose memon a shopping trip in ory I still treasured even though November is giving we’d been apart for almost 70 Dian Walsh, a retired Saskatoon years.” nurse, a Christmas gift she will Immediately upon seeing never forget. Bubbles on that Thursday, Walsh Walsh was at Market Mall on went home and told her husa Thursday afternoon when she band, Pat, who said they should walked into a display of dolls go back and buy it immediately. assembled by Penn’s Antiques. They did so on Friday. One doll caught her eye “The funny part of the story and today, Walsh is 99 per cent was that I had some groceries to sure that Bubbles is the doll buy at Safeway, so I asked Pat People her uncle, Ralph Brouillette, to stand outside the store in the gave her when she was living in hallway and hold Bubbles while North Battleford. I went shopping. The idea didn’t appeal to ENCH.2016starphoenixadTOPRESS.pdf 2 2016-11-09 2:36 PM “It was my personal favourite” said him much at the time, but he’s grown to
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enjoy Bubbles as much as I have.” Walsh’s parents, Mel and Hazel Harris, lived in North Battleford until she was 10 years old and then the family moved to Saskatoon. Her father was a chartered accountant. Bubbles was once a member of a family of dolls produced with remarkable American traits. The first Bubbles dolls were produced in 1925 by a company called Effanbee, a name chosen by founders Fleischaker and Baum, who were toy specialists. The doll was designed by Bernard Lipfert, who also created dolls which resembled and sold under the trademarks of Shirley Temple and Canada’s Dionne Quintuplets. The very first Bubbles dolls
were designed to be a premium gift for families which subscribed to the Junior Home magazine. But the popularity of the dolls grew and grew. The Bubbles brand sold into the late 1930s. When they were first introduced, they were in a height range of 13 to 14 inches. They became larger with each new production year. Walsh’s doll measures about 27 inches. All of the qualities advertised in the 1920s match the doll Walsh again owns. The non-breakable dolls have dimples in the cheeks, eyelids that open and close, even teeth in the mouth and rosy colours on the face, arms and legs. (Continued on page 5)
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