Working Vintage AMOS AND ANDY Car Marx 1930\'s Tin Fresh Air Taxi Windup Toy
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Working Vintage AMOS AND ANDY Car Marx 1930\'s Tin Fresh Air Taxi Windup Toy :
$382.50
Vintage Amos and Andy Car by MarxIt works, has the 3 features of a highly valued taxi must have its hand crank, meter Flag and horseshoe radiator cap to be considered complete.
Video of car working is mechanical toy hit of 1930!\" trumpeted the Sears,Roebuck & Company catalog in apromotional pitch describing thislithographed tin, windup toy car. The taxi rolled forward, stopped, andshivered in comic imitation of Amos \'n\' Andy\'s rickety Fresh Air Taxi. Hopingto cash in on thephenomenal success of the \"Amos \'n\' Andy\"radio show, the Louis Marx Company of New York produced three million of thesetoy cars in 1930, only to watch sales slump after a mere 1.5 million. Depictingthe misadventures of two black men who came from the South to seek theirfortunes in the big city, \"Amos \'n\' Andy\" drew an estimated 40million listeners to the radio every night almost immediately after itsnational syndication in 1929. It was the most popular radio show of its time,and, by some estimates, the most popular in history. Created and portrayed bytwo white actors, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, the show\'s principalcharacters stirred debate within the African-American community. While somecondemned the comic incompetence of Amos and Andy as the only image ofAfrican-Americans served up by the national media, others praised the show forintroducing Americans to black culture. By the 1950s, when the show appearedbriefly on television, critics had begun to condemn it for its racialstereotyping.
AMOS N ANDYLouis Marx
1930
Tin
Fresh Air Taxi Windup Toy
pleasesee photos
Working Vintage AMOS AND ANDY Car Marx 1930\'s Tin Fresh Air Taxi Windup Toy :
$382.50