On a trip to Sydney in 1956, Joan Anderson was amazed to discover a new trend sweeping Australia’s beaches and streets. People were “doing the hoop” — twirling a sturdy, circular ring of bamboo around ...

A circular piece of plastic tubing sparked one of the greatest fads in American history. People have danced and played with hoops for centuries, but when a California company called Wham-O began mass ...

Re “Pizazz, perils under the big top” (Metro, July 29): What a coincidence that a photo of an 18-year-old Providence circus performer warming up with a Hula Hoop (who even remembers them?) appeared in ...

Some version of the Hula-Hoop has been around for millennia, but the popular plastic version was introduced by Wham-O in the 1950s and quickly became a fad. Now, researchers have taken a closer look ...

The hula hoop is dead! Sad words, those. Saddest I've heard since while interviewing Bob Crosby years ago he told me that swing was dead. End-of-an-era words — words that make you feel older. I ...

Hula hooping is so commonplace that we may overlook some interesting questions it raises: 'What keeps a hula hoop up against gravity?' and 'Are some body types better for hula hooping than others?' A ...

In recent articles, I described some of the most popular baby boomer toys that are still available today, 60 plus years later. The post World War II time was often described as the Golden Era of Toys.

The Hula-Hoop is one of the most famous toys in history, but the science behind it has gotten little attention. Some of us ...

Although her name was left out of hula hoop history for years, it was Anderson who took the hoop from Australia to America and, with her husband, set a business deal in motion that turned the toy into ...