Forgotten Books: Marx Western Playsets - The Autho.Davy's Jukebox: Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee Drinki.Art Gallery: Captain America - The Republic Serial.Overlooked Films: Mother Goose Goes Hollywood.Mother Goose Goes Hollywood: The Lowdown.Forgotten Books: The Sherlock Holmes Book of Quota.Davy's Jukebox: Texas John Slaughter (made 'em do.Art Gallery: Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective Comic.Skyler Hobbs and the Man Who Couldn't Fly.Skyler Hobbs and the Man Who Smiled at Death.Skyler Hobbs and the Fate Worse than Scars.My nephew is the last kid I saw playing them. I wonder if my sister still has any of this stuff. Extra buildings and bridges were supplied by Lincoln Logs. My army men were the same as the ones in your photos.Īs time went by, all the sets mingled together in a big box with some knights, some WWII army men and some Micronauts and the whole living room turned into one Time-bending war. There was also a Revolutionary war set and a Gettysburg set. Fort Apache had a plastic fence and a metal building.
I had an Alamo one too but there was no Fess Parker - on that one the fencing looked a little different. I remember those corner lookout towers that slid into place. My Fort Apache had no mention of Roy Rogers but the set was pretty much the same. I got something called Heritage Playsets from Sears on Christmases and birthdays for a couple years. Complete sets like these, with the original boxes, command astronomical prices. The heyday for this stuff was between 19, but the company was still making some of them, on a more limited basis, up until 1978. There's way more in this book than even I'd ever want to know. Along with the great photos, it has a history of the Marx company, profiles of the men who made the toys, info on how these sets were manufactured, and lists of what each set (and each variation on each set) included. So, for guys like me, Jay Horowitz wrote this cool book, which was published in 1992. I've since managed to reclaim a few bits and pieces, but short of winning the lottery I'll never own the complete sets again.
At some point, of course, my mother either threw them in the trash or hauled them to a thrift store. I also had non-Western sets like The Civil War, and WWII, and one with knights vs Vikings. I had Walt Disney's Official Davy Crockett at the Alamo set (of course), and the Zorro set, and the Roy Rogers ranch. But my second favorite things were Marx playsets like these. When I was a kid my favorite toys were cap guns (and they still are).
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