Yo-yos

Joe Varo vjvaro at erie.net
Thu Jun 26 07:54:00 CDT 1997


They were still having them in the 60's, Ted.  Though I don't recall
actually competing, I do recall getting my mother to take me to some store
or another (Woolworth's? G.C. Murphy?) to watch the "pros".

Joe


On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Ted Samsel wrote:

> Anyone else here ever compete in the Duncan YoYo competions back in
> the '50s? I won (at a five&dime store back in Texas) due to the 
> gulleywasher of a rain that kept the kompetion away. I was the only
> one who showed that fateful day.
> 
> It's been downhill ever since....(;-_
> 




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