This story appears in Birmingham magazine's December 2016 issue. Subscribe today! When Homewood Toy and Hobby opened in 1950, it didn't sell dolls or building blocks; there were no puzzles or books.

“Another model horse has been added to the collection started more than 65 years ago.” It was a pleasant surprise receiving a palomino toy horse as a retirement gift from the Extension Board. Many ...

More than a century after they were invented, toy trains remain popular Christmas toys. Showing a Lionel train set in motion with smoke and train sounds at the Pittston Train Shop, owner John Merlino ...

It's cozy, squeaky and just ridiculous enough to earn an instant spot in a dog's toy rotation. It looks like something your ...

Wrapping up 19 years behind the register at Amato’s Toy and Hobby in New Britain, Danica Levesque figures she’ll miss the little children most of all. “Some of them would come in and their eyes would ...

An online toy company with its East Coast headquarters in Charlotte is moving into the brick-and-mortar world, and has agreed to purchase the largest retail hobby franchise in the world. Terms of the ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Toys are taking over New York City this week, with hundreds of thousands of them on display at the annual Toy Fair at the Javits Center. How about a space explorer drone? Or laser ...