Girl's Toys

The PopCulteer
August 24, 2012

The Marx Toy Museum
Photo Essay Part Four

Part Four--Girl's Toys

I have to admit, it wasn't the dollhouses, teasets, or bsbydolls that made me want to visit The Marx Toy Museum. I'm a guy. I'm interested in the action figures, cars, trains, toy guns and other cool stuff. However, The Marx Toy Company made some pretty cool stuff for girls, too, and The Marx Toy Museum has plenty of it on display. So wives and girlfriends should know that they won't be bored as us guys ooh and aah over all the cool stuff.

You'll have cool stuff to ooh and aah over too.

So at the great risk of giving this blog cooties, let's look at the toys that Louis Marx made for girls.

This photo essay is broken into five parts, so that the graphics don't overwhelm your browsers. Convenient links will be posted at the top and bottom of each essay, so that you can jump around at will.

The Marx Toy Museum Photo Essay
Part One--Meet The Museum
Part Two--Marxism In The Toy World
Part Three--Playsets And Plastic People
Part Four--Girl's Toys (You're here now)
Part Five--Johnny West And The Cowboys

[caption id="attachment_8940" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Store display for one of Marx's metal and plastic dollhouses[/caption]



[caption id="attachment_8941" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Marx's answer to Fisher Pricee's Little People[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_8942" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Mechanical animals[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_8943" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Circus Playset[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_8944" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The Colonial Mansion and Skates[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_8945" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Campus Cuties[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_8946" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Religious and educational playsets[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_8947" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Sindy, Marx's answer to Barbie[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_8948" align="aligncenter" width="500"] A tin Music Hall and street scene[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_8949" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Jane West was added to the Johnny West line to appeal to girls. It worked, and Jane was an important part of the Marx Western family for years. You'll see more in part five.[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_8950" align="aligncenter" width="500"] A full set of Bathing Beauties.This is more of "Girl Toy" than a "Girl's Toy"[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_8951" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Typewriter, stove and weaving set. Career choices for girls have improved quite a bit.[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_8952" align="aligncenter" width="500"] A toy piano and dollhouse terlet[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_8953" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Twinkie and other dolls[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_8954" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Doll and vanity set[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_8955" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Doll accessories[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_8956" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Child-sized vanity and doll-sized washing machine[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_8957" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Jocko The Climbing Monkey[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_8958" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The Marx-A-Masion Dollhouse in the box[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_8959" align="aligncenter" width="500"] ...and out of the box[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_8960" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The rare Girl From U.N.C.L.E.12" figure. Spy toys for girls[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_8961" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Archie and the Gang[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_8962" align="aligncenter" width="500"] One more amazing playhouse[/caption]

The Marx Toy Museum Photo Essay
Part One--Meet The Museum
Part Two--Marxism In The Toy World
Part Three--Playsets And Plastic People
Part Four--Girl's Toys (You just scrolled through it)
Part Five--Johnny West And The Cowboys