Pedro Flores

The key to its success started with a man called Pedro Flores, the man who first ventured on a mass production of yo-yo in the US.

EzineArticles 2010

Born and raised in San Juan Puerto Rico, Zenón adapted traditional popular songs by legendary Puerto Rican composers--Rafael Hernández Marín, Pedro Flores, Sylvia Rexach, Bobby Capó, and Don Tite Curet Alonso--to jazz, a genre that has a tradition of making standards from popular American songs.

Adriana Teresa Letorney: In Conversation With Miguel Zenón Adriana Teresa Letorney 2011

Simple yo-yos have been around for centuries, but the modern ones have their roots in the 1920s, when Filipino-American Pedro Flores opened a yo-yo shop in Santa Barbara, Calif.

The Yo-Yo Has Had Ups and Downs, But It's Far From End of Its String 2009

For some time, I've been aware that Duncan -- founded in 1928 by Donald F. Duncan, who bought rights to the object from a Philippine yo-yo carver named Pedro Flores -- no longer makes a wooden yo-yo.

David Finkle: I'm a Yo-Yo, You're a Yo-Yo 2009

He treated danger with light contempt or open scorn, and scorn was about all he seemed to have for Pedro Flores, although Pedro had held on to his stony empire through forty violent years.

The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

Pedro Flores had been a factor in their lives off and on for thirty years, though probably they had not actually seen him more than six or seven times.

The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

Except for a prize stud or two, Pedro Flores had probably never wasted an oat on a horse in his life.

The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

They were none of his business and he could just ride off and leave them, but the theft he was about to commit would put their lives in considerable danger: Pedro Flores would vent his anger on whatever whites lay to hand.

The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

They were easy to get, without Pedro Flores to contend with.

The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

If Pedro Flores and his men chose to pursue, they would have a fine chance of catching them out in the open, in broad daylight, several miles from help.

The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995