You don't usually see the elegant Barbie hanging out with rough 'n' tumble G.I. Joe, but they'll be making the same rounds in Ringgold.
The Chattanooga Doll Club is hosting its annual doll show and fundraiser Saturday at the Colonnade.
"It's a lot of fun for people who want to take a day off and look at the things they played with as children," said Deborah Jenkines,vice president of the Chattanooga Doll Club.
Antique dolls, action figures and -- yes -- Barbies and G.I. Joes will be among the dolls on display along with doll houses, accessories and clothing.
"We have about 60 tables," said Elsie DeLeon, a doll club member who helped to coordinate the event. "They'll all be filled with one kind of a doll or another."
The featured doll at the event will be Nancy Ann Storybook dolls, said Mrs. DeLeon.
Nancy Ann Abbott started the doll company in California in the 1930s, officials said. By the late 1940s, her doll company produced the largest number of dolls in the nation.
But in the 1950s, Ms. Abbott's health began to fail and so did production of her dolls. She died in 1964 and her company went bankrupt a year later,.
Now they're collector's items. On www.nancyanndolls.com, Nancy Ann Storybook items for sale range from $20 to $795.
Several Nancy Ann Storybook dolls will be on display during the show. A Heubach Koppelsdorf doll, an antique German doll, will be given away in a raffle.
IF YOU GOWhat: Chattanooga Doll Club annual doll showWhen: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. SaturdayWhere: The Colonnade, 264 Catoosa Circle, Ringgold, Ga.Admission: $4Information: 596-8167
Some dolls at the show may sell for as little as $5, while others go for about $1,000 if the right antique dealer and buyer get together, Mrs. DeLeon said.
Proceeds from the event will benefit the Girl Scouts, officials said.
Doll club members not only enjoy collecting and selling dolls, they also want people to know the history of the dolls, Mrs. Jenkines said.
Dolls are a display of women's history, she said. They are idealized versions of a girl or woman during a specific time period.
"When society gives a doll to a child, it is to teach them to be a woman," Mrs. Jenkines said. "People tend to belittle it, but it tells children what we value."