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 ...

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 ...

Quick-moving, looping yo-yo tricks were performed by about 70 competitors during the Duncan International Yo-Yo Championship at Downtown Disney. The second annual event showcases a range of yo-yo ...

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 ...

Entrepreneur Donald Franklin Duncan (June 8, 1893-May 15, 1971) was founder of the Duncan Yo-Yo Company and the Duncan Parking Meter Corporation. He was born in Rome, Ohio, but spent his childhood in ...

The classic American plastic yo-yo is becoming big business in China. With savvy promotion by Chinese toy companies, the market has grown from barely a blip six years ago to one of the largest, with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

As an antiquer, if I say the word “yo-yo” to you, it will bring an image to mind. You might visualize a couple of different things. To a toy collector, “yo-yo” is a pair of discs with a string wrapped ...

Thomas C. Reyes, one of the last of the yo-yo demonstrators who traveled the country popularizing the novelty toy in the early 1930s, died Friday of pancreatic cancer at the Veterans Affairs Medical ...