Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joan Anderson: she took the craze of bamboo hoops from Australia to America but she and her husband were misled over the Hula ...

On a trip to Sydney in 1956, Joan Anderson was amazed to discover a new trend sweeping Australia’s beaches and streets. People were “doing the hoop” — twirling a sturdy, circular ring of bamboo around ...

Although her name was left out of hula hoop history for years, it was Anderson who took the hoop from Australia to America and, with her husband, set a business deal in motion that turned the toy into ...