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 ...

For young Tom O’Loughlin, the corner of Kenneth Road and Grandview Avenue in northwest Glendale meant just one thing: the Duncan YoYo contest. “For years, I had a yellow sleeveless sweater with the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- It’s been 90 years of fun for Duncan Toys, an Ohio company known for its yo-yos. To celebrate, it’ll be slinging out a few yo-yo events in downtown Cleveland this summer. The ...

Chuck Pribulick sits on the screened-in porch of his Endicott home wearing a bright red polo T-shirt. The right hand side of the shirt bares the title Chuck proudly holds: "Duncan Yo-Yo Champion." ...

LINDEN, Michigan — Area children — and those much older, but still a kid at heart — got a lesson in the art of yo-yoing today by professionals. Four yo-yo masters stopped by the Linden Toy Factory as ...

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 ...

BENJIE SANDERS / ARIZONA DAILY STAR 1978 The words Duncan and yo-yo are almost synonymous. But when Tucsonan Donald Duncan Jr., whose father had created the original Duncan yo-yo, invented a new ...

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 ...

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 ...