The yo-yo used in ways you won’t recognize

features.csmonitor.com — This is not your father’s yo-yo. Neither is it your brother’s or cousin’s, for that matter. This is world-class performance art, Yo-Yo Mas playing a different kind of string. The museum director tells about the yo-yo’s golden era, in the 1950s and ’60s, and about its gradual disappearance from the limelight as hula-hoops and Frisbees emerged.