Specialties
We know toys, we know children, and now we know your children's children.
We have over three decades experience making children smile! Looking for a perfect gift for a child? A spectacular costume for Halloween? Or gear and gadgets for the sports of the season? Come on in and Ask Carol, and you're guaranteed to leave happy.
We offer FREE gift wrapping, nationwide shipping and friendly staff. We can't wait to meet you.
History
Established in 1978.
"Carol Knight owns The Toy Store, the oldest, most enduring toy retailer in the valley. From floor to ceiling, the Toy Store is a small wonderland of playthings fit to dazzle and entice everyone from toddlers to pre-teen girls and boys. Starting on little more than help from family and friends (and volunteer sweat labor), Knight launched her business 31 years ago following her migration to the valley from Red Wing, Minn."
From an article in the Idaho Mountain Express, Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Meet the Business Owner: Carol K.
"Knight was a teacher in Red Wing, on the bank of the upper reaches of the Mississippi River when she and fellow teacher Connie Nelson , decided "there was more to life than Red Wing," and opted for a three-month tour of Europe before making their way to the Wood River Valley in 1975 for a Sun Valley skiing fling. The road to becoming the valley's mistress of toys developed slowly. Knight went to work for Sun Valley Co. as a household maid, a stopgap living while she pleaded with the personnel department for a position that could use her teaching background. A job with a property management company followed, which led to running Edgar's Place, a day care center, where a parent suggested the valley needed a toy store. As they say, the rest is history.
After she opened the Toy Store in Ketchum in 1978 (the store in Sun Valley followed in 2010)."
From an article in The Idaho Mountain Express, Wednesday, March 24, 2010