Speaking of a pet cradle rock, there was an actual pet rock invented, marketed and sold by marketing genius Gary Dahl (1936-2015). It was in 1975 when Dahl and his friends talked about the hassles ...

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I've encountered more than a dozen articles touting the "brilliance" of Gary Dahl, the inventor of the Pet Rock. Each of these articles offers a near-identical summary of Mr. Dahl's unconventional ...

Some have even created “Pet Rock Care Guides.” The concept of the pet rock isn’t entirely new. It traces back to 1975 when American advertising executive Gary Dahl introduced it as a low-maintenance ...

Pet rocks were a popular joke gift in the 1970s US, when their creator, ad exec Gary Dahl, sold 1.5 million of them for about $4 each. Now the rocks seem to be back, but in Asia, where they aren't ...

For the younger folks out there, the Pet Rock was a fad dreamed up in 1975 by the advertising executive Gary Dahl. After listening to his friends complain about their pets, Dahl decided rocks ...

Here’s how it works. Roaming Mars is a lonely existence for NASA's Perseverance, but the exploratory rover now has a traveling companion: a hitchhiking "pet rock" that got stuck in one of its ...

But pet rocks flew off the shelves. In 1975, over 1.5 million rocks were sold, which made their "inventor," Gary Dahl, a millionaire almost overnight. The Pet Rock was a major success, owed in ...

Physical pet rocks were first launched back in 1975 as a collectible toy by advertising executive Gary Dahl. Related: Tales from 2050: A look into a world built on NFTs Offering tongue-in-cheek ...

The front page of the Saturday, Nov. 8, 1975, edition of the Post-Standard was filled with headlines about some of the most important names of the decade. In San Francisco, Patty Hearst was ...