Marx Toy Factory History - Glen Dale WV - Wheeling History

This is a video Compiled in 1991 from Earlier Footage Telling the History of Marx Toys.
For more Wheeling History Check out WheelingHistory.net

[@markguit6282]

thank you for putting this together. My mom's sister was married to David Marx and my father Charles Salerno ASC opened Homewood distributing after he left the film business. They what are the exclusive distributor for Marx toys west of the Rockies. My two younger sisters and I appeared in a few marks toy commercials.

[@wheelinghistory]

We love showing the rich history in the Ohio valley

[@markguit6282]

my little sister Debbie doing Hey Dino

[@wheelinghistory]

I would love to put those commercials up on the channel if you have copies of them

[@PaulGruendlerBeau]

​@wheelinghistory especially the GIANT BATTLE OF THE BLUE AND GRAY!!

[@markguit6282]

I'm in the Space Ranger commercial.
(34:14) I'm the kid on the left. The set and props were amazing.

[@monmixer]

the toys we played with when we were kids. I was jealous when the big wheel came out. Looked so fun but I was to damn big for it then. Time to buy a motorcycle. lol

[@plunkervillerr1529]

Marx guy here, I`m building a toy train O gage layout made up of mostly early tin Marx locomotives and rolling stock. Thank you much for video.

[@gacha_weirdness1017]

I have lived 5 minutes from glendale WV my whole life and the plant is now used to produce and ship motor oil. I love the history of my area and have always heard older folks talk about Marx toys ...

[@LaserRanger15]

I had a ton of those 6" high, molded plastic soldiers. Brings back very fond memories of being a kid and using my imagination.

[@brucefournier2391]

An excellent compilation and a real pleasure, not the same old, same old!

[@jerryprice5484]

I loved Marx playsets and usually got one every Christmas. I still have a number of plastic figures and pieces of those playsets to this day.

[@dustyrustymusty3577]

I worked there. 1969 and early 1970s.

[@benjaminwilson4558]

The "BIG WHEEL" was the "TRUTH!!!

[@plunkervillerr1529]

In 1953 who was Rosey Odonald? I don`t think the actress is 70 years old.

[@David-yo5re]

Different person.

[@ryanbarker5217]

i loved big wheels for the fifteen minutes it took for me to destroy the plastic wheels.

[@billyalonzo406]

Thank;s for the memory's I was lucky enough to have many of those toys you show I had a service station and countless tin cars J remember the Marx label being on alot of my toys Now i collect them

[@Yubl10]

This was back when they made toy to last. Toys just aren't made like this anymore, sadly. Toys today are kinda cheaply made to be disposable, not quality made to last for decades. Sure, Toys were more simple back then because of the more limited technology for making them, but they made up for it by being really good quality. I wasn't around in the 60s or 70s because I wasn't born until the late 80s, but I own some toys from the 60s, and they are really nice and high quality.

[@williamsantangelo]

Thank You and I do have collection of Marx Trains! 316th 027 and HO

[@mark-xx1lt]

Wow, I had no knowledge about many of these toys or I would have been asking for them as a kid. Were these commercials aired across the nation? Over half my toys came from watching ads & I don't remember many of these. I did have several Marx toys & enjoyed them a great deal.

[@bishop177]

WE LOVE WHEELING ❤️

[@oscarmartinsafonsodepaiva3320]

Maravilhoso documentário. Muito Obrigado.😄👍

[@blablametalhead]

I have several of the Marx trains that after service still run

[@bishop177]

WE LOVE WHEELING ❤️

[@casebarreoltt5990]

was he related to karl Marx? wikipedia bio is vague

[@Ryo_Le_Gos]

No, but he was a close friend and a financier of the bush family.

[@ferociousgumby]

$50 million is pocket change now.