Toys under the tree on Christmas morning weren't always made at the North Pole. For a half-century, until 1980, many were made in Erie and Girard by Marx Toys. The company founded by "Toy King" Louis ...
The 1960s were a golden era for toys, with many now regarded as vintage treasures that collectors pay top dollar for. Today, some of the most sought-after items from this decade can fetch impressive ...
MOUNDSVILLE -When visitors open the door to an unassuming building on a quiet street in Moundsville, they enter into an alternative universe, populated by an amazing array of toys from playtimes past ...
Marx Toys employed more than 2,000 workers at its factories, warehouses and other Erie and Girard facilities at their peak in the 1940s and '50s. From designing to assembling and packaging toys to ...
Q: I have a Roy Rogers Ranch Set, Marx No. 3979-3980. Everything is new. It has been opened but never bent into shape and assembled. Is this a common item or scarce piece? What is its value? J.L., ...
A lot of reissued Marx plastic toys aren't in Kansas anymore. They're being sold around the country through a partnership between Marx Toys & Entertainment Corp. and a Kansas-based toy dealer that ...
Through the swinging glass doors of Manhattan’s “21” Club one night last week popped a roly-poly, melon-bald little man with the berry-bright eyes and beneficent smile of St. Nick touching down on a ...
An attempt to revive a classic line of injection molded toys has been derailed by the arrests of six executives and investors for alleged stock fraud at Marx Toys & Entertainment Corp. Freehold, ...
This is the second in a three-part series about Marx Toys and the people who made them. Read Part 1: Marx Toys made in Erie were Christmas favorites for more than 50 years Marx Toys employed more than ...