sheldon minsky Loc: iron mountain michigan

Now you are talking about when baseball was a sport and not a business.

srron Loc: Courtice,On.

I tell my dad that when I was 16 he didn't know anything....but HE has learned a lot since then.

joehel2 Loc: Cherry Hill, NJ

In todays world, if a “toy” doesn’t stimulate all five senses at once, it is boring.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Jerry, I still have mine and play with it from time to time.
--Bob

Dannj

Yup! I remember it well. I got pretty good with some tricks but others were impossible. A lot of the tricks required a “sleeper” string which didn’t come with the yo-yo so you were never going to do them with an a “straight out of the box” yo-yo.

Burtzy Loc: Bronx N.Y. & Simi Valley, CA

I believe that was the Duncan Imperial.

Bison Bud

Yeah, Yo-Yo's were great fun! I had a wooden, Duncan Butterfly for many years that I spent many hours with and wish I still had. However, 15 or 20 years ago I purchased a new, high tech, Yo-Yo that's even better in that has a clutch mechanism and spins on ball bearings. One can "Rock the Baby" nearly forever with this one and I still get it out and play with it from time to time. Frankly, classic toys may fade in popularity over time, but they never really fade away and the Yo-Yo is without a doubt a classic.

paparue Loc: Bedford Virginia

In my neighborhood, It was Gus the yo yo man...He could work that yo - yo.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

This illustrates what I call the "candy dish concept."

"Johnny, don't you climb that bookshelf to get that candy dish. YOU KNOW you're not supposed to have candy. It'll rot your teeth out."

What the parent does not realize is that little Johnny has been CHALLENGED. Suddenly, what the Mom deemed "unobtanium" is verrry eenteresting! So Johnny waits for a minute or two and then climbs the bookshelf... [CRASH!!!]

[Mom screams in horror]

[Dad:] "HONEY, CALL 911! I'll try to get this thing off of him!"

Instead of removing the temptation altogether, Johnny's Mom failed to explain the laws of physics to her kid, and her husband failed to attach the bookcase to the wall to prevent such accidents, and both of them failed to understand that kids have to know WHY they should avoid climbing bookcases or touching hot stoves or whatever else it is that they've been told not to do.

ADULTS behave this way, too! As a corporate trainer, I always took time to explain the WHY. Without it, people often have zero incentive to do as they are told. They take shortcuts and leave steps out of a process. Or they find a different way to do something that results in problems downstream in the workflow.

Without a benefit, a feature is useless.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Maybe I'll find a plain wooden one from Amazon and decorate it.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I came in at the end of the marble craze. They were around, but there was no activity. You know about the Pee Wee Reese connection, right?

TreborLow

I remember those tricks and got fairly good at several of them. Never use two at once, like the Duncan Man did!
I recall getting extra strings in a cellophane bag. Also used a small candle to wax the part of the string that rubbed on the axel. That extended the run time.
Now, how about balsa wood gliders??
Bob

Dannj

You can get $.10 gliders on eBay. Only $26.95 for a pack of 6😂

JBRIII

Don't have kids or grandchildren, so don't really think about kids toys, but yesterday my physical therapist mentioned kids don't build things today, no Lincoln logs, brick and blocks, etc. ??

Dannj

My grandkids are in their early teens now but they all had those toys and there’s a 16 yr old who has a nice collection of LEGO Architectural sets…famous buildings, skylines, etc..