Richard Knerr, co-founder of Wham-O Inc, passed away Monday at the age of 82 at Methodist Hospital in Arcadia after suffering from a stroke. His business partner, Arthur "Spud" Melin, preceded him in ...

LOS ANGELES -- Richard "Rich" Knerr is being remembered this week for creating a multimillion-dollar company out of slingshots, flying saucers and spinning hoops. But he did much more than that. Knerr ...

Balls, hoops, slingshots are some of the oldest known toys. Also some of the simplest. No batteries, computer skills or assembly required. But make them out of sturdy polyethylene, color them boldly, ...

Richard Knerr, co-founder of Wham-O Inc., which unleashed the granddaddy of American fads, the Hula Hoop, on the world half a century ago along with another enduring leisure icon, the Frisbee, has ...

Richard Knerr, 82, co-founder of Wham-O Inc., which unleashed the granddaddy of American fads, the Hula Hoop, on the world a half-century ago along with another enduring leisure icon, the Frisbee, ...

LOS ANGELES — Life was once an easy summer breeze for Wham-O. The Southern California toy outfit, founded in a South Pasadena garage shortly after World War II, churned out Frisbees like pancakes and ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- After slipping and sliding nearly out of sight just a few years ago, the company that gave the world the Frisbee, the Hula Hoop and the Hacky Sack is trying to regain its footing as a ...

Tom Petty died on Monday, at age sixty-six. He was born in Gainesville, Florida, in 1950. As a child, he worshipped Elvis; per the oft-repeated lore, at age ten, he traded his wooden Wham-O slingshot ...

ARCADIA, Calif. — Richard Knerr, co-founder of the toy company that popularized the Hula Hoop, Frisbee and other fads that became classics, has died. He was 82. Knerr, who started Wham-O in 1948 with ...

Chinese investors couldn’t buy an oil company or the Maytag appliance company, but now a Hong Kong group has a claim on a genuine American business legend — Wham-O Inc., the maker of Frisbee, Hula ...