My granddaughter had a birthday this weekend. She turned eight. My lovely wife and I asked her what she wanted for her birthday and without hesitation, she said, “I want a Bitzee.” Neither my wife nor ...

LOS GATOS — If you look up the word “fad” in Wikipedia, the single summarizing illustration of that flash-in-the-pan phenomenon is a picture of the Pet Rock. In the whole history of mankind and ...

LANCASTER — Pet Rock Fest recently announced the awarding of thousands of dollars in donations to numerous animal welfare charities across New England. These funds, raised primarily through the 26th ...

Houston – 50 years after it first became a quirky cultural sensation, the Pet Rock is back—but this time, it’s live on stage. A Rock Story, a new play written and directed by Davis Gordon Gilbert, ...

For those too young to remember, there was once an entrepreneur who actually got more than a million consumers to pay $3.95 for a “pedigreed” Pet Rock. Gary Ross Dahl, who created the Pet Rock in 1975 ...

Gary Dahl, the mastermind who invented the Pet Rock, has died. His wife told The New York Times that Dahl died from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on March 28 in Jacksonville, Ore. He was 78.

The Hula Hoop. The pogo stick. The Tamagotchi. Fads, crazes and must-have toys all sweep the country from time to time. But in the annals of faddish toys, one achievement stands tall — or rather, sits ...

Marketing crazes are some of the most emblematic markers of their eras. From the ’90s to the 2010s, there are dozens of short-lived fads whose common elements are a combination of clever branding, ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Abraham's pet rocks, next to stickers of protestors and dissenters made by his mother, Gabriella ...

The versatile Brooklyn artist L’Rain is back with a new song, “Pet Rock,” which will appear on her next album, I Killed Your Dog, out Oct. 13 via Mexican Summer. “Pet Rock” is a hazy bit of alt-rock ...