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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The last gift my wife had for me under our tree this past Christmas took me back in time. The big box she’d carefully wrapped held an original “Fort Apache” playset, not much worse for wear than when ...

FROM Paris last week, TIME’S Dec. 12 cover subject, Toymaker Louis Marx, received a note from NATO’s commanding General Alfred Gruenther. Wrote the general: “That is a fine tribute to the great Louis ...