Boomer TV: Slinky's 'mom' dead at 90
Betty James, who named the toy her husband invented -- the Slinky -- and then ran the toy company he abandoned, has died at 90.
Is there not an American kid alive today -- whether boomer, gen X, gen Y or millennial -- who wasted hours playing with one of these wacky toys?
To learn more about Mrs. James and how she came up with the name Slinky, read her obit here, then check out this super-classic commercial from the early 1960s.
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