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 ...

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 ...

WHEELING, W.Va. (WTRF) — Toy collectors from across the nation are gathering here in Wheeling this weekend for the 27 th annual Marx Toy and Train convention at the Kruger Street Toy and Train Museum.

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 ...