Some of the wooden toys made this year by the Central Indiana Woodworkers. The organization works all year to make toys for kids in need at Christmastime, and distributed more than 10,000 to different ...

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 ...

Like so many parents on Christmas Eve, volunteers hunkered down reading directions, putting together bikes and toys that had “some assembly required.” Lists were checked, gifts were organized as the ...

Set in the desert foothills of the Franklin Mountains, surrounded by rocks and shrubs, the modest white building is the farthest thing from the North Pole one could imagine. But inside the ...

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 ...