Ad of the Day: Silver Dollar City--Ozark Country Dolls, 1974

To follow today's Applehead doll post, I give you more Appleheads along with an entirely new genus, Cornheads....not to be confused with Cabbageheads, Coneheads, or Cornballs.

This advert is from Silver Dollar City in Missouri. We had a Silver Dollar City in Tennessee too. I remember going there as a child in the early '80s. Here's some pics of me and the fam enjoying ourselves...I was about 3 years old at the time:

Notice that Daddy and I put Mom in the front to take the full fury of the Log Flume!

Mamaw and Pappy...geez, Pappy hasn't changed in almost 30 years!

Mmmm, cotton candy.....


My Grandmother in front of the waterfall

...Still going....


Not long after, Silver Dollar City closed. It was then bought by this pretty lady...

...who plopped her name (and my nick, by the way!) on it and turned it into an even more smashing place than before, as we Dolls are want to do.
I wonder if they have any Appleheads or Cornheads in any of the shops at Dollywood today?
....I truly hope not.

The Scariest Craft Craze of the '70s: Applehead Dolls, 1973

If you don't want nachtmares for the next couple of weeks, read no further. If you do, you're truly sick and twisted and that's probably why we get along so nicely!

Alright my dears, are you ready to be terrified? How about freaked out? Damaged beyond belief? Well look no further, my little ghouls...and boys. Today, the Doll brings you...well, dolls. But the most morbid, the most demonic looking, the most creeptastic dolls of all time: APPLEHEADS.

Yes, peanuts, you heard me right. Dolls with heads made out of decaying apples.


This is from a magazine from 1973, when they were all the rage, but these were still around in the '80s at craft fairs. I even remember being freaked out by some in the Baileyton post office when I was little. But I've not seen any in ages...thankfully. They ARE truly scary.

Yes, friends, they even had their own museum for these kooky, kitschy, monstrosities.

Should you be wacky and warped enough to want to make your own, they very kindly give detailed instructions:

Just so you know, if you think these things are scary now, just wait a few years. Once they really start to decay, they start looking like mummies. How would you like to wake up to one of these staring at you from your nightstand in a semi darkened room?




This one's actually for sale on Etsy. She's actually kind of cute...in a Leatherface kind of way...

Well, that's enough creepy for one morning! Toodles, sweet-peas!!
xx