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    The Man Behind The Brand: Fun and Games
    The Man Behind The Brand: Fun and Games
    The Man Behind The Brand: Fun and Games
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    The Man Behind The Brand: Fun and Games

    By Doug Gelbert

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    Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won't know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Kellogg, Chevrolet, Kraft, Gerber. Nowhere to be found. How many names are more famous than Howard Johnson or Oscar Mayer? But who were these folks? Let’s take a look at the men behind the names on the games we play...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDoug Gelbert
    Release dateNov 29, 2010
    ISBN9781458101013
    The Man Behind The Brand: Fun and Games

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      The Man Behind The Brand - Doug Gelbert

      The Man Behind The Brand – Fun and Games

      by Doug Gelbert

      published by Cruden Bay Books at Smashwords

      Copyright 2010 by Cruden Bay Books

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the Publisher.

      Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won't know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Kraft, Maytag, Hertz, Kellogg, Gerber. Nowhere to be found. How many names are more famous than Howard Johnson? Milton Bradley? Oscar Mayer? But who were these folks? Let’s take a look at the men behind the names we see keepng up the house...

      Duncan Yo-Yos

      Fisher-Price Toys

      Head Rackets and Skis

      Hillerich & Bradsby Bats

      Lionel Trains

      Milton Bradley Games

      Parker Brothers Games

      Saplading Sporting Goods

      And the man behind the brand is...

      Donald Duncan

      The yo-yo has been known for at least 2,500 years: an Ancient Greek bowl dating to 450 B.C. depicts a boy playing with a disk on the end of a string. Reaching Europe the toy was a popular entertainment in the imperial courts of Europe and it is said that Napoleon’s soldiers passed the time between battles practicing with yo-yos. But the American yo-yo was born not in tony parlors of Europe but the jungles of the Philippines.

      Although it is most likely the yo-yo reached the Philippines by way of China, some legends maintain that Filipino hunters developed the yo-yo as a hunting weapon, throwing a stone and retrieving it with an attached throng. However, it arrived in the Philippines

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