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Happy 65th, Barbie. Let’s go party with Chicago’s oldest Barbie club

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Windy City Collectors is one of the oldest, most durable Barbie-centric groups in the nation. They meet monthly, every second Thursday, at Russell's Barbecue in Elmwood Park. The club's president: "It feels weird to tell people you collect dolls, and they can't hold that conversation"

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Happy 65th, Barbie. Let’s go party with Chicago’s oldest Barbie club

Collecting stuff is not what it used to be. Collecting stuff used to mean hours, days, weeks, years of searching, rummaging through flea markets, visiting estate sales, scanning classified ads in newspapers and maybe, if you’re lucky, striking up a friendship with someone collecting the same thing. The internet, of course, made collecting less a big-game hunt than a morning errand. But it also, for many collectors, diminished the best part of co…

2 months ago·Chicago, United States

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