What is the history of hula hoop?

In 1958, if no one in the world played with this kind of American plastic ring, it meant that this place was not "in line with the world". The toys that really swept the world in history were made by two young toy manufacturers in San Gabriel, California. Richard Nell and Arthur Merlin are co-owners of a manufacturing company called Huim O 'Brien. In March, 1958, at a toy fair in new york, an acquaintance told them that there was a big wooden circle that was popular everywhere in Australia, and children put it on their hips and played around. After returning to the company, Nell and Merlin began to make wooden rings. But after doing it for 2 times, it stopped. They don't like wood and want to try it with plastic. By May, they had made something that met their requirements. They made 3-foot-big circles out of colorful polyethylene pipes, each of which sold for 93 cents, and the gross profit was 16%. This new toy of Huim Ao Company is named Hula Hoop. It is impossible to obtain the patent right of this toy. By Labor Day, more than a dozen companies had copied it and sold it under another trademark. This autumn, if all the imitations at home and abroad are counted, the total sales volume of hula hoops is estimated to be tens of millions. There are so many people who use it that European medical journals have issued warnings to guard against excessive intensity and damage to the body. There are many examples of actual injuries. In Leiden, the Netherlands, a Dutch woman was sent to a surgical operating room to have her appendix removed, but after examination by a doctor, it was found that her illness was actually caused by abdominal muscle damage, which was completely caused by the excessive rotation of the hula hoop. In Britain, the sales volume of hula hoops reached 25,. The British Medical Association issued a warning: "Anyone who has been found to have heart disease should not play hula hoops, and anyone who lacks training should not play too hard at the beginning." In Japan, emergency rooms in hospitals are crowded with patients with lumbar disc herniation and spinal dislocation caused by playing hula hoop. When Queen Mother Zainai of Jordan returned from Europe, she also had a hula hoop in her luggage, which is supposed to prove that hula hoop is not an improper thing. However, some toy manufacturers are still nervous. Adults are willing to watch others play hula hoop because some people's hips are quite tempting. That autumn, whenever a football match was held, there was always an unexpected pleasure: watching the charming band leader twist her waist wildly, which attracted thousands of spectators to shout. No matter what obscene thoughts the viewers may have, this new American thing is still very popular in other countries. In Germany, it is always a little unreasonable for Germans who have no children to buy toys. In order to avoid being seen, they ask the store to wrap the goods and send them home at night. When a Belgian expedition set out for the South Pole, there were also 2 hula hoops in their luggage: the money was used as entertainment expenses. In Warsaw, a weekly newspaper for young people actually said, "If the Ministry of Light Industry and the Handicraft Bureau don't start producing hula hoops, our progress in this respect, especially from an international perspective, will be greatly backward." The two departments were still dragging their feet, so the hula hoop was smuggled in through East Germany. Hula hoop fever comes and goes quickly. By the summer of 1959, garbage dumps in many cities were full of discarded hula hoops. In any case, it can be seen from this fanaticism that even a trivial matter in the cultural life of the American masses will have a great impact on the rest of the world.