And that was just about the coolest thing. The Big Wheel spanned the entirety of the decade: it was introduced by the Marx toy company in 1969 and was sold through 1981. The cheap plastic trikes ...

peddle-powered Big Wheel and its Marx brother, the Green Machine, ruled my neighborhood and kid-dom nationwide. It was a golden, or rather a plastic, age, before corporate shake-ups caused the Big ...

Many people who grew up in the 1970s, '80s and '90s will likely remember cruising around the neighborhood on a Marx Big Wheel, a low-riding tricycle made of plastic. Now, a Big Wheel-style bike is ...

That’s a far cry from the $15 a Marx Big Wheel used to cost; nowadays, kiddie-size Big Wheels cost anywhere from $60 to $100. On the bright side, the current $600 price is $300 less than what ...

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 ...

Did you race a Big Wheel around the neighborhood before graduating to two wheels? Or maybe you worked at the Erie or Girard plant that made those and other Marx Toys that were childhood favorites ...

Way back in 1969, Pennsylvania toy manufacturer Louis Marx and Company invented the low-riding big wheel tricycle as a safer alternative to bikes and trikes for kids between the ages of eight and ...

The Big Wheel Cobra is in the background. It was the last version of the Big Wheel made by Marx Toy Company, which was founded in Erie in the mid-1930s by Louis Marx and closed in September 1975.

Riding the Big Wheel around a custom activity course Creating ... of Fame The Big Wheel bike was introduced in 1969 by Louis Marx and Company and its popularity began to rise throughout the ...

Marx was called the “café-society Santa” and the “Toy King of America”—fitting sobriquets for the maker of Depression-era tin windup toys and for later generations, such popular items as Rock ’Em Sock ...