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 ...

If you measure a city by the number of its Chicago icons, this could be Windy City West. For what other town in Oklahoma–or anywhere else for that matter–can boast that it is home to a Frank Lloyd ...

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 ...

Few people get to turn a childhood passion into a lifelong career. Musical prodigies can do it. Some athletes. But a kid who does yo-yo tricks? Just ask Yo-Yo Mike. Or, as he’s known at Flambeau ...

Walk the dog. Around the world. Rock the baby. Nearly everyone recognizes these phrases as the repertory of the yo-yo enthusiast. Now, 62 years after Donald F. Duncan Sr. brought it back from the ...

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 ...

2004 marks the 75th anniversary of the Duncan Yo-Yo. To a historian, the yo-yo is the marketing success story of Donald Duncan. To a child (of all ages) it is a challenging toy. "To a physicist, ...

Donald Duncan Jr., whose father founded the company in the 1920s that churned out millions of Duncan yo-yos and who later helped popularize the toy himself, has died in a single-vehicle crash in ...