Inside the Workshop of a Classic-Toy Inventor, in "Eddy's World"

The inventor of more than eight hundred toys on why making playthings is a noble profession.
At the 1949 American Toy Fair, at the Hotel McAlpin, in New York, a twentysomething Navy vet from Chicago named Adolph (Eddy) Goldfarb débuted three of his plastic inventions. One was a drinking-cup-and-straw combo with three animals on its top that would spin as a child sipped—the Merry-Go-Sip. Another was Busy Biddy, an egg-laying chicken that was described, in a subsequent patent filing, as a “toy which is actuated to simulate the actions of a fowl.” (The marketing copy was flashier: “She’s cute. She’s adorable. She’s a winner!”) Both turned into hits for Goldfarb and Marvin Glass, the toy entrepreneur he had partnered with on the products, but it was their third item on display that year which would achieve immortality: a set of chattering plastic teeth, powered by a windup metal motor, sold under the brand name Yakity-Yak.

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