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 ...

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 ...

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, ...