Slinky Day 2024 is on Friday, August 30, 2024: holiday and valentines day?
Friday, August 30, 2024 is Slinky Day 2024. Video of the Day: National Slinky Day slinky.jpg
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The standard Slinky was invented within the 1940′s by Navy engineer and inventor, Richard James. It demonstrated an instantaneous hit, and selling out in a couple of hrs, rapidly grew to become our favourite toys. Slinky Day remembers the standard Slinky, and really should be spent doing slinky methods, watching Slinkies race lower stairs, or just untangling the items because they inevitably knot, twist and spiral!
Bring some slinky lingerie, the rest of your plans can go out the window! :-) Where will you be? I'm sure a romantic dinner can be figured into the mix. Your whole vacation should be a week long valentine's celebration, I bet. Enjoy!
Who invented the slinky?
"Slinky or "Lazy Spring" is a toy consisting of a helical spring that stretches and can bounce up and down. It can perform a number of tricks, including traveling down a flight of steps end-over-end as it stretches and re-forms itself with the aid of gravity and its own momentum."
The toy was invented and developed by naval engineer Richard James in the early 1940s and demonstrated at Gimbels department store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in November 1945. The toy was a hit, selling its entire inventory of 400 units in ninety minutes. James and his wife Betty formed James Industries in Philadelphia to manufacture Slinky and several related toys such as the Slinky Dog and Suzie, the Slinky Worm. In 1960, James' wife Betty became president of James Industries, and, in 1964, moved the operation to Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. In 1998, Betty James sold the company to Poof Products, Inc."
Good luck to you and have a pleasant day.
What Are The Lyrics to The Slinky Song?
SLINKY SONG
What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs
and makes a slinkity sound?
A spring, a spring, a marvelous thing!
Everyone knows it's Slinky.
It's Slinky, it's Slinky,
It's fun, it's a wonderful toy.
It's Slinky, it's Slinky, it's fun,
It's a wonderful toy.
It's fun for a girl or a boy.
Original Lyrics:
Who walks the stairs without a care
It shoots so high in the sky.
Bounce up and down just like a clown
Everyone knows its Slinky.
The best present yet to give or get
The kids will all want to try.
The hit of the day when you are ready to play
Everyone knows it's Slinky.
It's Slinky, It's Slinky
for fun the best of the toys.
It's Slinky, It's Slinky
the favorite of girls and boys.
