Comments on: Furry Friends Friday http://valentinoswife.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/furry-friends-friday-3/ Ramblings of a genealogy fanatic as she undertakes the road back in family. Hints, tricks, successes, and failures of family research. Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:44:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: valentinoswife http://valentinoswife.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/furry-friends-friday-3/#comment-319 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:12:56 +0000 http://valentinoswife.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/furry-friends-friday-3/#comment-319 Oh my! That is wild! My Smokey didn’t talk – good thing I didn’t know about such a bear then because I probably would have driven my parents crazy begging for one!

]]> By: Paul http://valentinoswife.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/furry-friends-friday-3/#comment-318 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:15:17 +0000 http://valentinoswife.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/furry-friends-friday-3/#comment-318 The Smokey the Bear in your photo looks exactly like the one connected to an interesting story from the 1950s. The South Carolina Forestry Commission had ordered 96 talking Smokey the Bear Dolls, and the factory had accidentally switched one doll’s record with one from a Praying Patti doll. Here are links to two articles about it:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19551221&id=bEwaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iSUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1977,402965

http://www.state.sc.us/forest/scpast.htm

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]]> By: Debbie http://valentinoswife.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/furry-friends-friday-3/#comment-100 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:00:36 +0000 http://valentinoswife.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/furry-friends-friday-3/#comment-100 Moms favorite holiday is Christmas too! Grandma and Grandpa Wenz obviously made it very special for you two for both of you to have this as your favorite holiday!!! BTW, you and mommy look so alike in the picture you have for your profile — didn’t realize how much you look the same.

Love, Debbie (

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