We never had even 1 Barbie doll. (and I have 4 other younger sisters). Alot of this was related to cost and my parents' friends weren't rolling in much money themselves to feed their own families,, much give gifts like that.
I do recall 1 blonde haired doll with blue eyes, that was shared amongst us all. Curly hair and rough. And the doll, now I remember after all these decades, the doll...wore a blue and white dirndl. LOL. How coincidental, since we were growing up in a German immigrant-based city.

So, most fun was jump the rubber ball, where the girls in our elementary school threw the ball way high against wall of 3 story school, on the side with no windows, and we would try to jump the ball bouncing onto the pavement.

Simple days. And we had hula hoop, jump footsie bell and long marathons of double-dutch skip rope contests. Can't believe I could jump up to 1,000 jumps on double dutch...once upon a time.