Looking for a short story

[Gerry Mullikane]

Hello everybody.
A request from a newbie: looking for the title of the first SF short story I ever read (a loooong time ago!). Asimov of course. A man walks at night in a street, picks up a toy doll found on the ground, starts to cross the street, and when he sets down his foot finds himself in a different time/place, still holding the doll. That's about all I can remember.
Thank you in advance if you could help me. I'd like to read it again.

 

[J-Sun]

There's a novel called Pebble in the Sky where Joseph Schwartz ends up with half a doll after a daytime stroll. Anyway - there was an alternate version of it (collected in The Alternate Asimovs, fittingly enough) called "Grow Old Along with Me". Could that be it?

 

[Gerry Mullikane]

YES ! That's it! Joseph Schwartz, I remember his name now.
Thanks a lot, J-Sun. You just made one more happy Asimov reader.
Great community, Chronicles.

 

[J-Sun]

You're welcome - and welcome to the Chrons as well.