The ducks had their origins in the mid-1800s, when rubber manufacturing began to gain ground. Out of the many animals crafted, they were the most native to water and broke away from the pack.

Although rubber ducks became a bathroom mainstay by the early 1960s, they got their big break in 1970, thanks to the children’s television show Sesame Street.. On the first season of the show ...

King and her husband Neil, who own the novelty shop Kora's Corner, will open a rubber duck museum in the store's back room this week. "We were like, that would be really great.

“I have done nothing but stare at rubber ducks for four or five months straight. I dream in rubber ducks at this point,” Krystal King told the McClatchy on Monday, from her Point Roberts store ...