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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The yo yo, *** toy with *** history stretching to ancient times, eventually taking the world by storm becoming one of the most iconic children's toys to ever exist. But what did it take to get this ...

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." ...

Don Duncan's father, Donald F. Duncan Sr., was the owner of the Genuine Duncan Yo-Yo Co. The younger Duncan "rather liked it" when his childhood classmates called him Yo-Yo. Duncan's Yozeum, a museum ...

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 ...