Palumba

...and then Grandpa passed on the tradition by giving me a wooden yo-yo.

Grandpas Yo-Yo is like having a history of the world in the palm of your hands. The first historical mention of the yo-yo was from Greece in the year 500 B.C. These ancient toys were made out of wood, metal, or painted terra cotta disks and called just that, a disk. It was customary when a child turned of age to offer toys of their youth to certain gods. Historical records also indicate that 16th century hunters in the Philippines hid in trees and used a rock tied to a long cord, up to 20 feet in length, to throw at wild animals beneath them. The weapon was yo-yo like because the hunters needed to be able to pull the rock back up so it could be used for multiple attempts at their prey. Then in 1916, the Scientific American Supplement published an article titled Filipino Toys, which showed a weighted disk with a string. The magazine gave the toy the official name yo-yo, which was the Filipino word for come-come or to return.

Our yo-yo is a yo-yo of yesteryear, modeled on the way it used to be in the early part of the 20th Century. Grandpa's Yo-Yo is roughly 2 1/2 inches and is dressed in a brilliantly colored organic stain. No fancy plastic pieces, lights or sounds; our yo-yo is Grandpa's Yo-Yo.

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