Do you remember....

Cabbage Patch Dolls?  This evening on the news they showed a short, sweet clip about little children going to court to "adopt" their new Christmas dolls and action figures in a small town in northern Indiana.  The reporter mentioned that this tradition started in the 1980s during the time of the Cabbage Patch Dolls craze.  I remember that time.  Every girl wanted one and every parent went to great lengths to buy one.  I had a friend who was working as the manager of the toy department at our local JC Penney's during that year.  He later quit and went into real estate - much easier.  Some of his descriptions of shopper frenzy were pretty funny (after the fact).  Thanks to a dear friend I was able to get a Cabbage Patch doll for my darling daughter without so much fuss.  Her brother was teaching in Germany at that time and shipped home several German Cabbage Patch dolls one of which I was able to buy.  I don't remember the dolly's name but my daughter was thrilled and thought it was really interesting that her baby's adoption certificate (every CPD came with one) was in German.  By the way, they were strange squishy faced little dolls, not really pretty in the traditional sense of the word, but oh so huggable.