Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A child plays with her Hula Hoop. The toy inspired a craze that was a spectacular success for the Wham-O company in 1958. Balls, ...

Richard Knerr, co-founder of the company responsible for turning the Hula Hoop, Frisbee and many other ingenious creations into iconic toys died Monday at age 82. Knerr spent his final hours in ...

There was a group of us kids from the neighborhood that rode our bicycles all day long through the street of my small Alabama home town. We knew short-cut and could get anywhere. We loved our bikes.

LOS ANGELES (CN) - Wham-O says its trademarked toys have not become generic, in arguing against challenges to its Frisbee, Hula Hoop, Slip 'N Slide and Superball trademarks. It seeks to enforce an ...

PASADENA (CBSLA.com) — The original home of the Frisbee, the Hula Hoop and the Slip-N-Slide is about to meet the wrecking ball. KNX 1070's Ron Kilgore reports an iconic set of buildings formerly ...

Wham-O, the manufacturer of the Frisbee, the Hula Hoop and other venerable toys, was sold this week to a Hong Kong distributor that plans to expand the Emeryville company, the parties said Thursday.

LOS ANGELES – Richard “Rich” Knerr is being remembered this week for creating a multimillion-dollar company out of slingshots, flying saucers and spinning hoops. But he did much more than that. Knerr ...

You never know when a Frisbee or Hacky Sack might come sailing overhead at Wham-O Inc., the company that launched those iconic brands, along with the Slip 'N Slide, the Hula Hoop and the SuperBall.

Balls, hoops, slingshots are some of the oldest known toys. Also some of the simplest. No batteries, computer skills or assembly required. But make them out of sturdy polyethylene, color them boldly, ...