Charlestown Residents Give 100 Hand-Made 'Vintage' Toys to Toys for Tots

CATONSVILLE, MD (December 10, 2015) -- Sgt. Phillip Allen, U.S. Marine Corps, is seen admiring a wooden airplane made by a member of Charlestown retirement community’s woodshop.

More than 100 ’vintage’ wooden toys -- several pull toys of trains, fish that wiggle when pulled, simple wood puzzles, piggy banks, shape fit toys, stack block type toys, wood road graders, old time cars and pick-ups, and cradles with hand sewn dolls – were made by men and women woodworkers.

The woodworkers have been making toys ever since this past April, according to Jimmy Mullis, who heads the woodshop and who is seen with Sgt. Allen.

The toys today were exhibited for the general public and then were given to underprivileged children via the U.S. Marine Corps’ Toys for Tots.