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 ...

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 ...

Erie once was a toy capital of the world, with more "elves" making toys than in Santa's North Pole workshop. Model trains, Rock'Em Sock'Em Robots and other treasured toys were made at Marx Toys ...

SEBRING, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 2003--Today, Marx Toys And Entertainment retained the services of Michael Marx, LLC to conduct and oversee Marx Toys' everyday business activities including ...

Q — In your vast knowledge of antiques and collectibles, surely you will be able to tell me why Marx electric trains are not held in high esteem. Many price guides cover American Flyer, Lionel and ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...