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While dollhouses may seem like timeless childhood playthings, this hasn’t always been the case – when they first emerged in the 17th century, they weren’t designed for children or playing! […]

The E. Rosen Company (a.k.a. “Schoolhouse Candy Company”, as it came to be called) was founded in 1912 by seventeen-year-old  Rhode Islander Samuel Rosen, with the $1600 his parents had painstakingly saved to send him to university

As early 6-10 months old, infants are drawn to characters who intervene to help, protect, or do good for others.  So is our love for superheroes innate?

While Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon had captivated their parents’ generation in the 1930s, children of the 1950s saw a renewed fascination with space travel, accentuated by sci-fi films and […]

After much rejection, Fred Lundahl (founder of Buddy L Toys) got his first big break into the toy business when he proved the exceptional quality of his product by standing […]

The word Taxicab comes from a contraction of “taximeter” and “cabriolet”, coined by Harry Nathaniel Allen, who founded the New York Taxicab Company in 1907. The taximeter, a mechanical device […]

The word ambulance comes from the Spanish word ambulancia, which was first used in the 15th century. Rooted in the Latin ambulare which means “to walk or move about”,  ambulancia […]