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    Hula-Hooping It Up

    Dec 07, 2021 2 minutes
    By Lynn Cassity

    Our usual Saturday-night gathering with cousins became unusual when they met us at the car with souvenirs from their vacation in California. They had Hula-Hoops, the first ones seen in our part of Missouri in 1958.

    Wham-O had just started marketing the Hula-Hoop that year. While visiting relatives in California, my Farris cousins discovered their Farris cousins were manufacturing

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