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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...