How the Pogo Stick Leapt From Classic Toy to Extreme Sport Three lone inventors took the gadget that had changed little since it was invented more than 80 years ago and transformed it into a gnarly, ...

Here’s a little added-bonus to the recent post about Walt Kelly’s self-animated Pogo short.. Before he began animating, Walt Kelly laid out a complete storyboard of his planned Pogo special. He then ...

The pogo appealed to kids who couldn’t—or didn’t want to—compete with the skateboarding hordes or who saw in its goofiness a kind of geeky cool. For several years before the supercharged pogos came to ...