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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A college town about 150 miles north of San Francisco is known to Californians for many reasons. Chico is historically the epitome of a party town and has remained a quirky community. Last year, it ...

Microsoft, a company primarily recognized for its Windows operating systems, has recently ventured into the realm of 3D printing by releasing a collection of 3D printed yo-yos. These yo-yos can be ...

ROXBURY – One year after witnessing his first World Yo-Yo Contest, Frank Lombardo will head to Iceland to join the competition. Lombardo, 26, of Landing, is leaving for Reykjavík this weekend to ...