A Marvelous Toy
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My Marvelous Toy
Fremont, OHFor Louis Marx and Company their last "hurrah toy" ended up being my favorite toy. Marx’s toys included tinplate buildings, toy soldiers, toy dinosaurs, mechanical toys, toy guns, action figures, dolls, doll houses, toy cars, and HO scale and O scale toy trains. Their inexpensive but quality built toys were common place in dime stores. Some of the more expensive items could be found in Sears and Montgomery Ward Catalogs.
While I remember hearing about Rock’em Sock’em Robots, Marx toys was more famous to me for making my marvelous Christmas Toy. A fantastic yellow, red, and blue plastic “Big Wheel”, for those raised in the 70s this must have toy was quite popular. On a Christmas morning back in 1977 in Fremont, Ohio the wish of my brother and I came true when we spied two Big Wheels, shiny and new underneath my grandparents Christmas Tree. Oh what a delight and oh what fun we had riding those toys.
Marx Toys would eventually be sold to another manufacturer but the Big Wheel still lives on today. For those of us who still love the Big Wheel, I hear they have a race every Easter. The race runs down Lombard Street in San Francisco. So get out your Big Wheel and “On Your Mark, Get Set, GO!”
Do you remember your favorite toy or item from Christmas past? I would love to hear about your story.
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Grandpap's toy
In the early 70's a grandfather bought one of these "3 wheelers" for his growing number of grandchldren. Grandfather lived on Blair Avenue behind the Wilson Theater in Tyrone, PA on a family street where activities took place in yards, sidewalks or on the street. A favorite past time for Stephanie and Mark were the hours spent being pushed along the street on the 3 wheeler by Granpap. Ahead of his time, he had a long stick attached to the back of the 3 wheeler to help those tired or short legs take a longer ride. Many happy hours were spent riding the Big Wheel on Blair Avenue. Thank you for the memory!
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christmas 77 photo
here's a photo of the steve austin doll, i was talking about in the comment blog below. you could look in the back of his head, and see thru his anten-eye
"I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self." Fred Rogers
Christmas of '77
funny, you wrote about that year....I'll never forget it. I was 5 years old and I got 2 toys, a lone ranger action figure and a six million dollar man action figure too. I took them everywhere and constantly played with them. I would wear cowboy hats, and masks yelling HI HO SILVER, and for Steve Austin, I used to run in slow motion and make that bionic sound with my mouth 'nah nah nah nah nah nah' Thanks for the memories. cory G