Pedro Flores, the Filipino American immigrant who is known as the "Father Of Yo-Yo", was born on this day in 1896. So I made this drawing to celebrate his birthday.
The #yoyo (also known as the bandolore) had been around for centuries, but Pedro created a new method of attaching the string in the 1920s that allowed the toy to "sleep" when it reached the bottom of the string. Up until his invention, yo-yos only went up and down! In 1932, Pedro sold his company to Don Duncan. #PedroFlores
A few other fun tidbits: #PedroFlores left the Philippines when he was 19 to go to the High School of Commerce in San Francisco.
He later studied law at the University of California, Berkeley and the Hastings College of Law in San Francisco.
Though he dropped out of law school, some aspects clearly helped him out as he stepped into the world of business. He was savvy enough to trademark the name "Yo-Yo" (a Tagalog word that means "come and go", according to wikipedia). https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/pedro-and-the-yo-yo-man-and-myth