The Duncan Family Yo-Yo Collection consists of papers, photographs, advertising materials, scrapbooks, clippings and audio-visual materials. These materials trace the rise and fall of the companies ...

America owes its fascination with the yo-yo mainly to Chicago businessman Donald F. Duncan Sr., who spotted it while on a business trip to San Francisco in 1928. It was being used by Pedro Flores, a ...

Steve Speegle has more than 30,000 yo-yos. He is a yo-yo champion and came out of retirement to do a few tricks. The yo-yo is one of the most popular toys of all time, with plenty of ups and downs.

Ohio holds the record for the world's largest yo-yo and the largest pumpkin pie. Estately.com, a real-estate website, compiled a map of world records by state. Using data from the Guinness Book of ...

WINTER HAVEN — A few days before her sixth birthday in 1937, Velma Seawell Daniels’ father asked what she wanted more than anything in the world. Young Velma recalled being dazzled by the recent ...

The first yo-yo craze began in the United States in 1928. It hit Tucson a few years later and a contest at a drugstore inspired this article. Pretend you have never seen a yo-yo. Would this ...