Joan Anderson, who has died aged 101, was for 60 years an inventor manqué; she took the hula hoop from Australia to America ...

Joan Anderson, the woman who introduced the hula hoop to the United States and gave it its iconic name, died last month at ...

Because of a deal made on a handshake in a parking lot, she was long left out of a famous toy’s story. When she was 94, a ...

Joan Anderson's role in introducing the hula hoop from her native Australia went unsung until the 2018 documentary Hula Girl.

Joan Anderson, the woman who brought the hula hoop to America, has died at 101. Anderson first introduced the toy to the U.S.

I recently read an article on Joan Anderson, the woman who brought the hula hoop from Australia to 1950s America. She died in ...

Joan Anderson, who introduced the hula hoop to the US and named it, died at 101 on July 14, 2025, in Carlsbad, California.

Joan Anderson, the woman who coined the name "Hula Hoop" and helped bring the iconic toy to America, has died at 101 in her ...

Sir Jamie McGrigor, the Conservative Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Highlands and Islands, who introduced a bill to protect tartan. And Joan Anderson the former model who brought the hula ...

Hoop. She didn't have anything to do with production of the plastic toy. But the Hula-Hoop as we know it may never have been ...

What a coincidence that a photo of an 18-year-old Providence circus performer warming up with a Hula Hoop (who even remembers ...

Joan Anderson, who spotted a new fad on a trip back to Australia and brought the hula hoop to the attention of a US toy ...