Barbie's Around The World Trip.....21 VIEW-MASTER Stereo Pictures.Archived Message
Posted by Jim on September 10, 2022, 6:59 pm
From 1965. I still have these from when I was a kid. Anyone else remember these?
“Daddy! I’ve won a trip around the world!”
Ken came to see the dreamy dresses we were packing
“Bon Voyage from your friends,” the boy said as we left N.Y.
“Set your watch by Big Ben,” the London Bobby told Ken
We pictured King Arthur living here at Tintagel
Imagine me in a dress from a real Paris fashion salon
I painted the Arc de Triomphe from our Paris apartment
We fed a Dutch cow at the Ijsselmeer in Holland
I gasped at Skipper skiing below us in the Austrian Alps
In Switzerland, Daddy and Skipper were “alpinists.”
The Evzones’ uniforms are an old tradition in Greece
We climbed a pyramid to see the Sphinx in Giza, Egypt
Skipper tested the fakir’s rope trick in India
Our lady guide pointed out the Taj Mahal, Agra, India
We enjoyed the Tea Ceremony in Kyoto, Japan
I danced the “lelong” with the Balinese girl in Bali
In Australia’s Outback, we threw boomerangs and fed kangaroos
Ken got a pearl from a giant clam at the Great Barrier Reef
Midge and I tried a fast Tahitian dance in Tahiti
Ken “wiped out” when we surfed at Waikiki, Hawaii
We cheered the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco
I felt aglow too as the gleaming Golden Gate Bridge came into view. Homecomings are happy too! So much to tell my friends! Before our deck party we planned to surprise each other in the costume of our favorite country. Ken was a Greek Evzone, and I a Tahitian dancer, only—sigh—not as suntanned. Daddy wore his alpine outfit, as I expected, but Midge surprised me in her Dutch dress and Skipper in that long, Balinese gown. In the midst of our celebration we sang to our truly favorite country—“America.”
