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 ...

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 ...

Marx Toys became a staple of Erie manufacturing not long after its founding by Louis Marx in Brooklyn, New York, in 1919. Marx had worked for the Ferdinand J. Strauss Company, a toy manufacturer in ...

Yes, there is. Or there was. Santa was Louis Marx, a chubby, cigar-chomping captain of industry who created the Marx toy company, once the largest manufacturer of toys in the world. With his wife, ...

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 ...

In Manhattan this week, workmen on Gimbels’ toy floor were putting the finishing touches on a 30-ft. space ship, outfitted with an “artificial gravity generator,” a “viewport” (windshield), “radar ...

SEBRING, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 26, 2004--Marx Toys & Entertainment Corp. (OTCBB-MRXT) announced today that they had formed a joint venture with EVERGREENRIVER Entertainment, Ltd. to introduce a ...

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 ...

This is the first in a three-part series about Marx Toys and the people who made them. Toys under the tree on Christmas morning weren't always made at the North Pole. For a half-century, until 1980, ...