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Babyland General Hospital
- home of the Cabbage Patch Kids (originally called "Little People")
The facility is presented as a birthing, nursery, and adoption center
for premium Cabbage Patch Kids. |
| The two RV Gypsies visited
Babyland General Hospital twice; once in May 2008 and again in May 2010. No entry charge. Below find photos from both visits. |
Babyland
General Hospital - Home of The Cabbage Patch Kids - May 3, 2010 |
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| After 30 years on Underwood
Street in Cleveland, Georgia (where it was in 2008) BabyLand General Hospital
opened its new 70,000-square foot building in a new location just in time
for the annual Cabbage Patch Kids’ Appalachian Christmas celebration.
Although the two RV Gypsies found the outside of the new building quite
impressive and the inside very bright, attractive and inviting; they missed
the smaller, individual rooms of the old building. The individual rooms
seemed more quaint, however both visits were enjoyable. |
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| The first room in the new building, with display cases of Cabbage Patch Dolls, mostly in the $16,000 price range. | An incubator with cabbage patch doll heads |
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| The first views of the main room, lots of open space, Christmas trees and displays of Cabbage Patch dolls. Impressive at first glance. | |
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| Because things are not in individual rooms anymore, each section that gets photographed also has lots in the background | |
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| This is a small section of a cute display that has the babies growing out of the cabbage patches. Some of the babies would bounce up and down. How Cute! |
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| This didn't photograph well, but it is a flashing, sparkling sign. | The stork in the new baby room |
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| These are just two of many airplanes hanging from the ceiling high above our heads | |
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Christmas babies |
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| Babyland General
Hospital - Home of The Cabbage Patch Kids - 2008 |
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| These signs outside the old building are not anywhere outside the new building. The sign on the right is a favorite of the two RV Gypsies. | |
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school |
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| The school area is in a room of its own, with the school bus full of babies, a dining area, the teacher | |
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two RV Gypsies bring the teacher an apple |
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cute babies |
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| Birthing ceremony - Dolls are "birthed" every hour during business hours in a procedure during which one of the "LPN's" (Licensed Patch Nurse) assists the Magic Crystal Tree in producing each doll. When the intercom announces that a Mother Cabbage is in labor, a nurse hurries to get ready for delivery of a new Cabbage Patch baby. With the nurse are the pink and blue bunnybees that pollinate the kids with crystals, determining if the newborn is a boy- blue crystal or girl- pink crystal. The nurse comments on how much the Tree is dilated and injects with "Imagicillin," an "experimental but highly recommended" drug. | |
| The
Birth of a new Cabbage Patch Baby |
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| Waterfalls
in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia & more You may visit any of the below sections in any order you choose. (The page your are on is grayed out and not clickable) |
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| BabyLand
General Hospital - Birthplace of the Cabbage Patch Dolls |
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After
you have visited all 6 sections of the above photos,
please continue on to the two RV Gypsies' adventures on the west coast of Florida and in central Florida. |