75 years ago today, Tonka Trucks was founded. First called Mound Metalcraft, they opened in a metal manufacturing plant in Mound, Minnesota. The three businessmen, Lynn Everett Baker, Avery Crounse, and Alvin Tesch changed their company’s name to Tonka Toys in 1955, using the Dakota Sioux word “Tanka” or Tonka, which means “great” or “big”. […]
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