|
Replies: 21
| visibility 1781
|
Orange Immortal [68718]
TigerPulse: 100%
60
Posts: 90414
Joined: 2001
|
On this day in history 1957...
23
23
Jan 23, 2025, 9:31 AM
|
|
the Wham-O toy company, creator of the Hula-Hoop and Superball, rolled-out the first batch of Frisbees.
Interestingly, the story of the Frisbee began in Bridgeport, CT where William Frisbie opened the Frisbie Pie Company in 1871. Students from the nearby universities would throw the empty pie pans to each other. Years later, two men (Warren Franscioni and Walter Morrison) invented a better plastic version of the disc which was sold to Wham-O in 1955. Wham-O change the name to Frisbee (misspelling the name of the pie company).
By its 50th anniversary in 2007, Wham-O had sold more than two hundred million Frisbees.
|
|
|
|
 |
Orange Immortal [61648]
TigerPulse: 100%
60
Posts: 12185
Joined: 2019
|
Re: On this day in history 1957...
11
11
Jan 23, 2025, 9:36 AM
|
|
To this day still one of the best toys ever invented.
|
|
|
|
|
|
TigerNet Elite [70064]
TigerPulse: 100%
61
Posts: 19546
Joined: 2008
|
Re: On this day in history 1957...
6
6
Jan 23, 2025, 9:48 AM
|
|
What family in the early 60s didn't have all 3 of those products?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Game Changer [1864]
TigerPulse: 100%
31
|
We did!
1
Jan 23, 2025, 10:23 AM
|
|
😄
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top TigerNet [28920]
TigerPulse: 100%
55
Posts: 13362
Joined: 2014
|
Re: On this day in history 1957...
2
Jan 23, 2025, 11:42 AM
[ in reply to Re: On this day in history 1957... ] |
|
All of those and don’t forget the paddle ball with the rubber ball attached with a rubber band. Or at least when it was new. The rubber band never lasted very long at our house.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dynasty Maker [3175]
TigerPulse: 100%
34
|
Re: On this day in history 1957...
Jan 23, 2025, 3:05 PM
|
|
I broke many of those!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Playmaker [384]
TigerPulse: 48%
16
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Immortal [68718]
TigerPulse: 100%
60
Posts: 90414
Joined: 2001
|
Wham-O also created...
Jan 23, 2025, 12:00 PM
|
|
and marketed the slip-n-slide, silly string, the Hacky Sack, Magic Sand, and the Boogie Board.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Immortal [62823]
TigerPulse: 100%
60
Posts: 48294
Joined: 2000
|
Anybody here tried to hula-hoop lately?
6
6
Jan 23, 2025, 10:37 AM
|
|
I tried with my kids hula-hoops a few years ago, and discovered that it was flat out impossible as an adult. Seriously, it's the physics involved or something. Or just getting older. At the time, I was very fit and physically active, what with golf, basketball, karate, etc.
Could not hula-hoop to save my life. It came natural as a kid.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Paw Master [17823]
TigerPulse: 100%
51
|
I found a big waist
5
5
Jan 23, 2025, 10:42 AM
|
|
Inhibited the hula-hoops performance. Now that I'm thinner, I'm also older and not about to risk a back injury! 
|
|
|
|
|
|
Letterman [194]
TigerPulse: 100%
12
|
Re: On this day in history 1957...
2
Jan 23, 2025, 11:03 AM
|
|
Frisbees and Bowman Field.....when I was at Clemson, one would rarely see one without the other.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Immortal [68718]
TigerPulse: 100%
60
Posts: 90414
Joined: 2001
|
I actually still have the glow-in-the-dark Moonlighter model...
3
Jan 23, 2025, 11:12 AM
|
|
that I took to Clemson with me my Freshman year.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ultimate Clemson Legend [98685]
TigerPulse: 100%
64
Posts: 47952
Joined: 2009
|
Nothing like having a Frisbee at the beach..
2
Jan 23, 2025, 11:25 AM
|
|
Or at “wherever” you are at the moment.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Legend [6923]
TigerPulse: 100%
41
|
Re: On this day in history 1957...
1
Jan 23, 2025, 11:28 AM
|
|
Who doesn't love a Frisbee ? Our dog loves his.
We sometimes would go to a field and play dodgeball with paint can lids. We did wear work gloves, we weren't stupid. Well ok, we were stupid. It's a wonder none of us got seriously injured.
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-TigerNet [5771]
TigerPulse: 100%
39
|
Brings back great memories from my days a Clemson in the late 70's.
3
Jan 23, 2025, 11:34 AM
|
|
Threw the ol Frisbee around in the Lemans parking lot every day after classes.
No need to "Hold my beer". One hand for the disk, one hand for the beer.
PS couldn't afford to drink beer every day. Fridays only.
|
|
|
|
|
|
1st Rounder [658]
TigerPulse: 100%
21
|
Re: On this day in history 1957...
Jan 23, 2025, 12:30 PM
|
|
As a kid in Clemson, the only place I knew to get one was from the Chaplain at Holy Trinity Episcopal. He sold them cheap, so I think it was just a service to the students.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Immortal [68718]
TigerPulse: 100%
60
Posts: 90414
Joined: 2001
|
When I was a kid...
1
Jan 23, 2025, 12:57 PM
|
|
we had Sky City and Roses stores but selections were pretty limited. This was, of course, before the days of K-Mart and Wal Mart.
My hometown also had a hobby shop that sold train sets, slot car sets, model cars and planes, model rockets, and Frisbees.
I think I got my first Frisbee on a family trip to Myrtle Beach. Probably from one of the many Whales, Pacific, Waves, or Eagles stores. Of course, I bought an orange one.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dynasty Maker [3175]
TigerPulse: 100%
34
|
Re: When I was a kid...
Jan 23, 2025, 3:10 PM
|
|
Point for the Sky City reference. Got my Mind Blower speakers from there!!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Game Changer [1671]
TigerPulse: 100%
31
|
Re: On this day in history 1957...
Jan 23, 2025, 1:05 PM
|
|
Forgot where I saw this, but worth sharing:
Frisbeetarianism: The belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [10908]
TigerPulse: 100%
45
Posts: 12261
Joined: 1999
|
The more you know...***
Jan 23, 2025, 4:34 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
TigerNet Elite [74070]
TigerPulse: 100%
61
|
Re: On this day in history 1957...
Jan 23, 2025, 5:30 PM
|
|
Remember the days when most roofs in the neighborhood had a frisbee or 2.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top TigerNet [29776]
TigerPulse: 100%
55
|
Re: On this day in history 1957...
Jan 23, 2025, 6:42 PM
|
|
####, I thought it was your birthday….
Go Tigers and Frisbee.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Replies: 21
| visibility 1781
|
|
|
50
