Hula hoops was patented 56 yrs ago today...

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

Simpler times simpler toys got us outside and moving though. A simple plastic hoop...who would’ve thought it would be such a huge hit?

Remember your color of hoop? I had a red one first then who knows.

[MarianJack]

1. I got mine when I was about 5.

it was green and white stripped.

RESIST!

[Rhiannon12866]

3. So did I, my Dad brought it home for me

Mine was yellow.

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2. You know... for kids!

[MarianJack]

4. ;-)

One of my favorite movies!

When is the sidewalk well dressed?

When it's Waring Hudsucker!

RESIST!

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6. A favorite of mine as well

Such a great tribute to a period of Hollywood filmmaking.

Jennifer Jason Leigh does the "fast-talking career gal" perfectly.

Paul Newman of course always looks like he was born in whatever role he's playing, he makes it look like acting is the easiest thing in the world, when obviously it's very hard to make it appear so effortless.

Even the Moses character. Everything done to a tee.

Great movie.

Damn, I'm gonna have to watch it again for the 89th time....

[MarianJack]

8. Only 89?

RESIST!

[WheelWalker]

5. I still have one hanging from a branch in my Magnolia Grandiflora.

[Fla Dem]

7. Wow, how to make me feel old. I was under 10 when I got my first one.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. That may be when it was patented, but I had a hula hoop years before

1963. I was about 10 when I got my first one and that would have been 1958.

[Solly Mack]

10. Summer time fun! My aunt was very good at it.

We had blue and red ones.

[akraven]

11. Less than 10 years ago, my sis-in-love and I were in a WalMart -

and OMG hula hoops! Competition right in the aisle and we both bought one.....