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Twenty years ago Jack Guy started reviving the art of making folk toys, like a gee haw whimmy diddle or flipper dingers. Most of the toys date back 200 years. He sold at first to tourists, but the demand became so great that he hired mountains folks to carve the toys. By 1971, RTC Industries was distributing the toys nationally. Blue Ridge Cottage Industries, Inc., of Boone, which markets Jack Guy Folk Toys nationwide, succeeded it.
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