Growing up, everyone remembers their favorite toy. And for many generations, that toy was a Tonka Truck. For several decades the toys were made right here in the Twin Cities. Right after World War II, ...

MOUND, Minn.—The home on the corner lot has a two car garage—and a 500-vehicle basement. Lloyd Laumann will be the single largest contributor to a Tonka toy museum set to open next month in Mound.

An eye-popping exhibit at the Winifred Museum captures three generations of everything Tonka with a display of about 3,000 unduplicated toys. They are owned by John and Darleene Thompson. John ...

For three generations, a Tonka Truck has been more than a toy. It’s a shared memory of childhood, evoking Christmas mornings or summer evenings in the sandbox. This classic toy was born in 1947 in the ...

It’s perhaps too easy to get all misty-eyed and wistful about the past, especially when it concerns our old toys, but there really is something different about Tonka. Here were tough trucks, cranes, ...

The Ford F-750 Tonka dump truck on July 17 at Science City at Union Station. David Boyce As Stephanie King posed for a picture in front of the Ford F-750 Tonka dump truck in mid-July at Science City, ...

DEER LODGE, Mont. — As Santa starts filling orders from youngsters' wish lists, the hottest toys of the season may spark memories of toys past. In our Montana Moment, we visit 'Yesterday's Playthings' ...

The yellow Tonka Truck. Instantly recognizable by any child of decades past, that big metal beast would always make you popular around the sandbox. There were no blinking lights to dazzle, no noises ...

“Man, that’s a long way down,” I think, as my left foot dangles above the ground at an elevation of about two and a half feet, but which looked like 10 stories from my eyes’ point of view. There is no ...