Casper the Friendly Ghost posed in a living room cabinet lined with daisy wallpaper. Nearby, a floor-model television set ran a loop of 1960s toy commercials. Sharon Smith grinned as she looked at the ...

The 1960s were a golden age of wildly imaginative, sometimes questionable, and always memorable toys. From oddball gadgets to quirky playsets, toy companies experimented with creativity in ways that ...

Toys date back to prehistoric times, when children fashioned sticks, rocks and clay into playthings. More sophisticated toys appeared in Ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt. But it wasn’t until the ...