I usually save this kind of item for Today's Upper, but when I saw this little tidbit it jogged my mind.
As usual, it took me to another time, seemingly a life ago.
It was on this date in 1957 that the folks at a toy company called Wham-O rolled out a new item. The company already was a major player in the toy world, what with having introduced us to the Super Ball and a plastic hoop called the Hula Hoop.
In 1957 they brought us another piece of plastic, in the shape of a disc.
It was called the Frisbee.
In the next 20 years, Wham-O sold 100 million of these plastic discs.
I have to admit I was never much of a Frisbee guy.
This was never more apparent to me than when I landed at the University of Colorado in 1976. As it turns out, some of the very first guys I met, who would eventually become my roommates, were from California.
I swear the very first thing these guys unpacked were their Frisbees.
I considered myself pretty athletic. I played a lot of sports in high school.
But I never quite mastered the Frisbee.
These guys did things with a Frisbee I could simply not imagine.
Maybe it was a California thing.
That and surfing, I guess.
Far out, right?
Well, it was a lot farther out than I ever could claim to be.
Happy Birthday to the Frisbee.
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