hula hoop vintage postcard
In Ancient Greece Hula Hoops were made out of dried stiff grapevines! A droopy Tarzan vine just wouldn't do the trick:) Citizens hooped as a serious form of exercise. Watch out Socrates .. Roxanne Rose has the current hooping record. The American went 90 whole hours in 1987!
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Hula Hoop Vintage Postcard
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33 cool cats commented:
Unbelievable, I can´t even manage to to that 3 minutes.
I could never work that hula hoop but you should have seen my little sister and brothers! They didn't go 90 minutes but they were GOOD! (love the vintage pic!)
Really grape vines. I can barely even hula hoop. But it is fun. Happy Sunday..
Love this postcard. That is so interesting about the grape vines. I can swing it around my arm... does that count?
Great photo! I loved to Hula Hoop as a kid, not so good at it anymore...HA! 90 hours...holy smoke that's some serious Hula Hooping!!
xoxo
Karyn
I was never any good with hula hoops, although there is a British potato snack of the same name (guess the shape) which is very yummy!
My boys got rainbow coloured hula hoops from Flunch a few years ago - you could take them apart and put them back together with the coloured arcs in a different order. They didn't seem to come apart in use... I wonder where they went?
Amazing detail, Marie! Can you imagine stiff vines for hoops? How did they make them smooth enough so they didn't snag your clothes or skin? <3
I'm just tired looking at the photo...does looking count as exercise???? ;)
Hope you are enjoying yourself girlie!!!
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I wonder how good that is for your hips? Might invest in one, just to do something different.
I always wondered what I should do with those evasive grape vines on my property. Hula Hoops hmmm...
Judy
Maybe that should be my new exercise?! LOL
☼Hope you're having a sunshine ☼ filled Sunday!☼
I read on the nice postcard: 1958 la vogue du hula-hoop.
Those were the days, Marie! :-)
So adorable! I was a hola-hoop fiend when I was a child, I used to be able to give it swirling around my waist for at least half an hour at a time. Looking back it never felt like exercise or "work", but I now realize it must have been a pretty good work out! :)
Wishing you a gorgeous week ahead, my dear!
♥ Jessica
90 hours?! That's nuts! I can't hula hoop to save my life!
Wow, that sure brings back memories! MY hula hoop was blue and I could do it forever. I'm sure I drove my Mom crazy doing that in the house. Thanks for bringing back that time in my life! Love you Sweetie.
I was very good.
It sure brings back memories. In school there were always hoopla performances to music for sports days etc.
Doing the hoopla is good exercise; it's just trying to keep it up!
Great photos !! This is lovely and beautiful too !!Unseen Rajasthan
Hi Marie!
Just stopped by to say you’ve been “tagged” in my latest post!
Terrific post as always - loved to hula hoop too (when I was a lot younger!)
Have a wonderful day & see you again soon!
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I think I might go and see if I can find a hula hoop somewhere, lately I have doing a lot of the things I have never been able to do, and realized that with practice anything is possible, so why shouldn’t I be able to hula hoop :)
90 hours...3.75 days!!!!
how do they monitor those things? continuous? I mean, what about a bathroom break? (is that a goofy question?)
*as always... love your postcards and fun facts that you post along with them!*
Just may be the perfect exercise to get rid of those extra pounds put on by all the summer iced lattes!
What fun post.. having been away at a blogfest which ironically had no wireless connectivity .. I have a lot to catch up on ..
I never could hula hoop. Sigh. But it always looked like fun! :)
tina
That is so cool---I did not know that! And, good grief--I could hoolahoop maybe a second????
I had a hot pink hoop....with glitter, I don't think I was very good at it but I looked good????Ah, the 70's. Heidi
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Oh ! I had one !
I didn't know the ancient Greeks made hula hoops! I do remember them from my childhood, though.
When I was a child , I played hoolahoop , but I wasn't so good !
I loves the Hula Hoop! See Me Hula on my Blog <3
Love it! What an adorable photo. I can maybe hula for 1 minute - actually was never good at that. :)
What a (another) fabulous postcard
Gee.....90 hours....it tires me just to think of it. :-)
xoxo
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