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 ...

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, ...

In the 1950s, Louis Marx and Company began producing elaborate plastic playsets. In the 1950s, Louis Marx and Company began producing elaborate plastic playsets. Marx capitalized on the popularity of ...

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 ...