A blast from the past.

I was fooling around on Google's new video service and ran across the documentary in the next post below, decided it would be fun to try posting it to the blog and just went with the stock text that came with the picture. It's a ten-minute video so if you want to watch the whole thing, make time.

When I was a kid in the 40s the Duncan yo-yo man used to show up on the school playground every spring - not the same guy but doing the same tricks - and yo-yos instantly became the school-wide toy of choice. Had to run out and get a new one or at least buy a package of new strings for the old one. Yo-yoers are as fussy about their strings as violinists - or cellists, as the case may be.

And when we all got old enough to go to a school with an auditorium, there'd be an assembly every spring featuring the Duncan yo-yo guy - or in good years, two or three of them.

I haven't played with a yo-yo in a whole lot of years but it's a lot like riding a bicycle, I bet, something you never entirely forget. Maybe I'll pick one up one of these days and see if I can still do “Around the World” (better stand back for that one) or “Walk the Dog.”

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