Cleveland, Ga.? Remember your Cabbage Patch Kids doll? More to the point, do you have a child of your own who might want one? The one-of-a-kind, chubby-faced dolls with yarn hairdos and individual ...

This is the earliest example of upsetting human behavior from past Black Fridays. When Coleco released the Cabbage Patch Kids line of dolls, people became desperate to get their hands on them.

There was now a talking Cabbage Patch Doll, and Mattel’s “Heather” had a vocabulary which matured like that of a real child. Peter Harris, of F.A.O. Schwartz said that kids and parents ...