toys

Here are 11 awesome toys from the 1990's we wish we could play with right now.

Sad to hear that the inventor of the Etch a Sketch passed away. Frenchman Andre Cassagnes came up with the idea in his garage in the early 1950’s. Originally known as the The Magic Screen – it was displayed at a toy fair in Nuremberg, Germany in 1959 and it was the president of the Ohio Art Company who paid $25,000 for the rights to what eventually became the Etch a Sketch.

It’s no secret.  The National Museum of Play is one of my favorite places in Rochester to visit with my family.  Now there’s a new reason to visit.  They’ve inducted new toys into the National Toy Hall of Fame.

There are people who have held on to some of the toys they had as kids. I'm one of them. Some of those toys could be worth a lot of money these days. But would you part with those toys if someone offered you enough money?

I don't know if anyone caught VH1's show called "I Love Toys", but I did.  Who doesn't love toys?  Some of us still have a love for them.  I bet many of fathers totally enjoy when little Johnny gets a new G.I Joe or Transformer...and daddy gets to play with it too. The VH1 show dealt with the 10 best toys of all time and you wouldn't believe what came in at #1...Let's start at #10.  Comi

It was one of the biggest crazes of the late 50’s and early 60’s.  During the era of capri pants, the Twist and Duncan yo-yo’s - one item came along that not only had everyone in the country doing it, but was the subject of hours of entertainment and exercise. The Hula Hoop.  On...

Christmas is a lot different when you’re a kid. I can remember not being able to sleep on Christmas Eve in anticipation of what I’d find in the morning. Every house has their own traditions, but in our house I was always the first one up and all the gifts were under the tree.

It’s just a short drive down the Thruway in Rochester – it’s the National Toy Hall of Fame. It opened in 1998 and there are 46 toys that have met the requirements to be included. Last year’s inductees were playing cards and the game of Life. To be included in the ...

It was back in 1957 when a group of school teachers in Minnesota came up with a plan to make some money during their summer off from school by making gardening tools for sale.    All of them were expert gardeners and each of them knew of some special function for which a tool should be designed to make a certain gardening job easier: small hand shovels made to fit a woman’s hand, weeders that were