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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...