I love the site and all the information you provide. I can't believe how many of these toys I had as a child. I will definitely be making a trip to the museum in the spring.
I am a native of West Virginia and did not know of your Museum. My wife and I plan on visiting you this spring.
I heard about this site on a kids news show on channel 13 out of Huntington.I'm very pleased and impressed what your community is doing to show to the generations of those who couldn't enjoy Marx products what Marx was all about.I hope soon to bring my wife and kids to visit your museum and surrounding sites.Thanks for the memories !!
Great site I would love to visit the museum someday. I hope you can keep it going great stuff and memories!
Thanks for the GREAT tour and all the information about Marx Toys. It was really " A WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE " thanks !! Ray and Linda
WE will be making a trip to your Marx Museum in the next few weeks. My wife and I grew up with Marx toys and we wanted to show our children the toys we played with. We seen the Marx Museum on the John Ratzenberger show " MADE IN AMERICA " on the travel channel.
We received our Antique Toy World publication today and that was a nice article about your museum. A WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE @ THE OFFICIAL MARX TOY MUSEUM in Glen Dale WV. We will be making a trip to York Pa very soon and we will make it a point to stop in for a visit. We also saw you on the Travel Channel. Keep up the good work!!!!!!!!
Like many of you, as a child growing up in the 70's I played with my share of Marx Toys, never realizing the long term value, both sentimental and monetary of these playthings. My Marx toys are long gone, but thanks to your museum the memories will live forever. My husband was a long time employee of Marx during the 1970's and was there when the plant closed down. It is comforting to know he had a hand in producing the toys that I enjoyed so much. His name is John "PZ" Winters, and he has many memories of his time at the Marx plant. Bless you and good luck with the museum.
Still a great place to stop and see. It's simply amazing!
Spectacular! Need more Pictures! I collect the Marx Disneyland #5995 and #4368 sets. I am helping Rusty Kern with his next issue of Playset Magazine, on these two Marx Playsets. Wish I could visit the Museum. HUGE Marx fan. Regards, Ian ian_shapiro2@hotmail.com
We love this site and hope to visit the museum sometime soon..
i like the marx toys i play with them in the 70's
Thanks again Jason, your info was great. I bought a playset mag. and it almost brought me to tears. I'm looking forward to purchasing a Civil War playset. Richard S. Landry
SUPER!!
My Grandma used to work for Marx Toys and I have three of the blue plastic Disney figurines that she personally made while there. My Dad told me about the museum and that you have some pictures with my Grandma in them. I plan on making a visit to the museum as soon as possible. Thank you for making it possible for so many people to relive memories. God Bless!
Looking through the pics bought back so many precious memories esp of bithdays which included a marx doll house.
In the i960 and 1970 i worked at the New York office for a great man named Cliff Freeland who was the art director and man friday for MR Marx I spent maney great years working with both Mr Marx and his brother. There is a tone of history and some great stories that can be told. back in the60 and the 70 ther was no better place to work then at 200rd fifth ave.Some days i wish i could go back in time and meet the marx boys again Build the displays for the dept stores work with all the venders and meet all the famous people that came up to the office. thats a another storie
so very cool i remember some of this from my childhood 65-74' ish...so cool man....thanks
I came across an article by Tim Forbes in American Heritage magazine, and there was a full color photograph of the Blue and Grey Battle Set. I wanted to cry. As a boy in the early 60's, I collected the Civil War, Alamo, Fort Apache, and WWII box sets. I spent countless hours designing battle scenes. These were my favorite "toys" of all time. It has been many years since I've even seen them. My misguided mother threw them all out after I became a teenager. I found your website surfing through Google and Marx toys. I just want to thank you for sharing the wonderful photographs of my old friends. Of couse, now I want to find the Civil War and Alamo sets to own once again, so wish me luck. Next time I am traveling across the country, I will be sure to stop by your fantastic museum. Thanks again for the wonderful memories. A 52 year old boy
Just dropping you a thanks for putting this together. I came upon it while doing some research on Marx Dollhouses. My wife was a child model for a Marx Dollhouse when she was about 6 years old. I am having some difficulty in locating one to give to her as a gift. I part of the box with her picture on it, but would like to get the hole box and dollhouse in reasonable condition.....maybe! Since Pittsburgh is not that far, I thought I might take a ride to see the Museum soon. I think our kids would think it was cool to see the toys that Mom and Dad played with when we were their age. My son would probably think it was stupid, "Where is the game plug,remote control, or special effects?" Kids have lost the imagination that we had. Anyway thanks.
I just found out about the museum and couldn't be more excited. I'm planning to make a trip in April to enjoy a coke and check out the toys. I've been a toy collector for a long time and recognized some of the toys in the pictures. They bring back memories for not only me but my grown son also. He still has his western toys. Can't wait to see everything.
HI I AM 43 YRS OLD & ALWAYS ENJOYED MARX TOYS,I HAVE A MARX ELECTRIC TOY TRAIN SET THAT MY PARENTS BOUGHT FOR ME ON CHRISTMAS 1964,I WAS 2YRS OLD AT THE TIME BUT REMEMBER IT JUST LIKE YESTERDAY,MY SISTER WAS 6MONTHS AT THE TIME,IT WAS CHRISTMAS EVE 1964,ME & MY SISTER SETTING ON THE COUCH WATCHING MY DAD& GRANDPA SETTING UP MY TRAIN SET& PLAYING LIKE TWO CHILDREN,WISH I COULD GO BACK, THANKS MARX FOR THE GREAT TOYS & YEARS
thank you for the musuem that showcases not only toys but those who worked to make them. my grandfather was an employee with marx toys and of course i had many dibs on the current products. we grew up in mcmechen and living so far away it is nice to be able to visit and relive memories such as this. once again , thank you.
GREAT SITE! It brings back so many memories of the toys I played with back in the early 1970s, esp. The Best Of The West Actin Figures. I still have mine, but the boxes are long gone. I hope I can visit the museum some day.
We visited this wonderful museum on May 6, 2006. What a treat it is to any Marx fans! The staff is very informative and helpful. Mr. Turner, himself came into the museum and shared his wealth of knowledge with us. We ended up spending about 3 hours there and had pictures taken with Mr. Turner in front of his replica western town. If you are at all a Marx fan and considering visiting this terrific place - by all means GO! You will enjoy every moment! Thanks again for keeping these memories fresh!
I LOVE this website!! I hope you continue to show MORE photos and share everything MARX with those of us who can not possibly travel to Virginia to see what you have in person... It means SO much. Thank you for sharing with us!! ;-) ~DIANE~
I was thrilled with your website. WOW, it took me back to the early six- ties when I was a boy growing up in the Bronx. I was the owner of MOON BASE, My favorite playset, I also had the Untouchables. I had other toys like the flintstones, Top Cat cartoons figures! Sorry to say, we moved and I had to throw them all out.If I am not wrong, the playsets we Ten dollars each. My father worked for the city and earned $59 a week. He thought they were a waste of money. We lived near Yankee Statium and he thought it was a waste of money to watch a baseball game when you could see it on T.V. Thank you for the great |