As the nation celebrated its bicentennial in 1976, Americans became nostalgic for the “simpler, homespun” times of the American past. Dressed in calico, the Holly Hobbie doll looked like she had just stepped through the door of a one-room schoolhouse of one hundred years before. Enterprising toymakers offered poseable figures of the characters from The Waltons, a popular television show set during the Great Depression of the 1930s.