Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Yomega's yo-yo clutch explained

National Yo-Yo Day

June 6 is National Yo-Yo Day! Or more precisely it's the birthday of Donald F. Duncan, Sr., who popularized the yo-yo in the US (he also founded the Good Humor ice cream company and invented the parking meter). You could celebrate by visiting the SpinningTop & Yo-Yo Museum in Burlington, Wisconsin where "The Top Lady", Judith Schulz hosts a collection of thousands of tops, return tops (yo-yos), trompos, trottoles, gyroscopes, spinners, rattlebacks, wizzers, diablos, toupies, kreisels, komas, logic puzzles, gizmos, and more. While you're there, just around the corner is the Burlington UFO and Paranormal Museum and Research Center with Gift Shoppe and Sci Fi Cafe. For more (or all) things yo-yo online check out Lee's Yo-Yo Page. By the way, in 1968, Yippie activist Abbie Hoffman was cited for contempt of Congress for, amongst other acts, "walking the dog" with a yo-yo during a session of the House Subcommittee on Un-American Activities.

SpinningTop & Yo-Yo Museum

Burlington UFO and Paranormal Center with Gift Shoppe and Sci Fi Cafe

Lee's Yo-Yo Page