Church members were being encouraged to bring along a doll ... bear. His wife, Rose, began sewing them by hand; Michtom sought and secured the permission of Roosevelt to dub it the “teddy ...

Esper of Michigan warned his congregation that “the fad for supplanting the good old dolls of our childhood with the horrible monstrosity known as the teddy bear” would lead to falling birthrates.

People taking a trip down to memory lane this weekend at the 53rd Lancaster Doll, Toy & Teddy Bear Show ... things were made by hand and that's what they really remember is what they grew up ...